New Zealand’s First Bushranger Transferred To Lyttelton Gaol – 1881

Henry Rouse (aka Henry Beresford Garrett) is regarded as New Zealand’s first bushranger – and has been described as our very own Ned Kelly.  If his fellow Lyttelton Gaol inmates knew anything of him or his past, they may have been surprised when they actually saw him in person.  Nicknamed years before as ‘Long Henry’, …