Horse and Cattle Stealing.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume III, Issue 14, 2 July 1879, Page 116

Horse and Cattle Stealing.

Stolen about the middle of January last, from Matakanui Pun, near Black’s, a bay mare, six years old, 15 hands high, black points, branded O on near shoulder; the property of William T. Sams; value £2O. Identifiable.

Henry Poster is charged, on warrant issued by the Auckland Bench, with stealing, on or about the middle of May last, at Hellior’s Creek, near Auckland, a rod bullock, branded BM, ear split; the properly of Matthew Phillips. Description: A native of Cumberland, England, twenty-eight years of age, short stature, dark-brown hah*, and small whiskers, chin shaved. It is supposed he has gone to Waikato, Whangarei, or Kawakawa, to seek employment in the coal mines. Poster, with two other men at present in custody, killed the bullock, and stole the carcass.

(See Police Gazette, 1879, page 109.) The pony, the propei’ty of John Alfred Chadwick, reported stolen from a stable at Tauranga, has been recovered.

Stolen between the 15th of April last and the 15th ultimo, from the farm of Phillip Collin Trelkeld, Oxford Tram Road, Eyreion District, sixty long-woolled sheep, mixed ages, branded P on top of inverted T in red on near loin, snip in the under point of near ear. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to William Barnard, who is charged on warrant with stealing sheep, the property of William Senior White. (For his description see Gazette, 1879, page 98.) He had been a sailor.

Stolen between the 10th and 14th ultimo, from tho farm of Prideaux Tancred, Taratahi East, a half-bred wether, branded Oon rump, two slits in one of ears; value 18s. Identifiable.

Supposed stolen during the past fifteen mouths, at Waitotara, a thorough-bred chestnut filly (by the thorough-bred horse “ Gladiator now rising two years old, hind fetlocks white; the property of B. Perris; value £2O. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to John McKenzie, a farmer residing at Waitotara, with whose horses the filly and her mother were running.