Stealing otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume II, Issue 1, 16 January 1878, Page 3

Stealing otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

John Knott Maicin is charged, on warrant, issued by the Auckland Bench, with t lie larceny, as a bailee at Auck and, about, the Ist ultimo, of an ulster coat, a rug, and a pair of watertight bools; the property of Henry Hume; value £5. Identifiable. Description : English, a clerk, twenty-one years of age, 5 feet fi inches high, medium build, thin features, fair complexion, light hair, hazel eyes, slight moustache, no whiskers, a lit tle in-kneed ; wore grey tweed suit , low crowned soft felt hat or small straw hat, and lace-up boots ; shabby appearance. He arrived from England by t.lie ship “Famenoth” about two months ago. He pawned the coat at Neumegen’s pawn office. It is supposed he has gone to Waikato.

Stolen 1 on the 21st ultimo, from the forecastle of the brig “Roderick Dim,” at Dargaville Wharf, Auckland District, an open-face silver lever watch, maker, Atkins, London. No 5037 ; a piece of white tape and two watch keys attached; the property of Charles McMillan; value £4los. Identifiable.

Stolen between (lie 19th and 29th ultimo,’ from a tea-chest, between Auckland and Tauranga, a dozen linen handkerchiefs, seven bottles of scent, lavo bars of preserved ginger, a small, china vase, a feather fan, two scented wood fans, and a nest of

fancy china boxes; the property of How Suit; value £2, Identifiable.

Stolen between the 2nd and 4th instant, from a case at the Christchurch Railway Station, a carving knife and fork, flat white bone handles, guard of fork broken off, six dinner knives, of same pattern ; two corkscrews, one new with dark wooden handle, the other old with white bone handle; some confectionary, and a few towels ; the property of John Robinson ; value 255. Carving fork and old corkscrew identifiable.

Stolen about the 19th or 20th November last, from the coach which plies between Ross and Hokitika, a brown paper parcel containing two ladies’ grey felt wrappers, one sewn with red thread ; about twenty-six yards of black silk, a black Hyde Park shawl, and two children’s grey clonk jackets ; tlio property of Thomas Learmont; value £lO. Identifiable by trade mark.

Stolen on the 16th September last, from the cart of James G-abey, at Temukn, Canterbury District, a new cart-saddle and breeching; value £3. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to Joseph Harding, English, a carter and ploughman, twenty-nine years of age, 5 feet 3 inches high, dark hair, very little beard or whiskers, slovenly appearance ; wore old gvey tweed clothes, watertight boots, and soft black felt hat.

Stolenon the 17th ultimo, from a railway carriage, between Ch ristcliurch and Lyttelton, a semicircle railway carriagecushion, 2 feet in diameter, covered with blue cloth ; the property of the Government; value 2s. 6d. Identifiable.

Stolen on tlie 3rd November last, from the railway station at Lawrence, Otago District, a parcel containing a drab coat, about, half worn ; a damaged draught-board, men complete ; four dice, and a pair of spectacles ; the property of John McKay. Identifiable.

Stolen about the 19th ultimo, from Devonport Wharf, Auckland, a quarter-chest of tea, with the name “ Rees ” marked with black paint thereon ; the property of William L. Rees ; value 30s. Identifiable,

Stolen on the 24th ultimo, from the store-door of G. If. Lavers, Queen Street, Auckland, two hags marked IT, containing new potatoes ; value £3. Bags identifiable.

Stolen on the 24th ultimo, from the trousers pocket of Joshua Litile, which was hanging in the Club boat-sheds, Avonsido. Christchurch, a brown leather purse, about 4 inches long by 2) inches wide, with elastic band, corners squared off, containing about 30s. in silver, some penny postage stamps, and extracts cut from colonial newspapers. Purse identifiable.

(See Police Gazette, 1877, page 53.) Tiie brace, the property of Thomas Christie, reported stolen at Grevtown, Otago District, has been recovered.

Stolen between the 31st ultimo and 2nd instant, from nigh Street., Dunedin, a garden spade, handle about, 2£ feet long, a split at top which is secured by two nails; the properly of Arthur Hitch cox ; value 6s. Gd. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 24th ultimo, at New Plymouth, a red-and-white-slriped railway rug, and a blue railway rug, having letters worked with thread on one of cornel’s; the property of Alexander Ross; value 38s.

Stolen about (ho 31st ultimo, from off a turnip-sowing machine, at, Seadour, near Amberley, Canterbury District, four tin cylinders, the property of Frank Courage; value £7. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to a farmer named James Webb, who resides in the neighbourhood.

Stolen between 5 p m. on the 7th and G 45 a.m. on the Bth instant, from the prison carpenters’ shop near the gaol at Dunedin, a common carpenters’ tool basket, containing a me-dium-sized coopers’ adze, a coopers’ draw-knife about 1G inches long, straight back, a coopers’ 4-lb. hammer, branded /,\ on one side, a large spokesheaf, a coopers’ upright driver with a large iron ferrule round the top of handle, and a common 2-foot rule; the property of the Government.. Identifiable.