Miscellaneous Information.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume III, Issue 24, 19 November 1879, Page 207

Miscellaneous Information.

Appointments as Constables. Andrew George Crawford, No. 1790. Llewelyn Griffiths, No. 1791. James Hickey, No. 1792. Henry John Kir ton, No. 1793. John Campbell Colquhoun Dawson, No. 1794. Promotions. Second-class Sergeant Kearan Whelan, No. 194, to be Firstclass Sergeant. Third-class Sergeant William Diehard Price, No. 1192, to be Second-clas3 Sergeant. Probationary Third-class Sergeant Frederick Loose, No. 1035, promotion confirmed. Constables Thomas Rosson Pointon, No. 1053, and John Keele, No. 1574, to be Probationary Third-class Sergeants. Resignations. First-class Sergeant Henry McArdle, No. 50. First-class Sergeant Paul Richmond, No. 369. Constable Richard Adderley Kearney, No. 1775. Constable Robert Witt, No. 1492. Discharges. Constable Robert Joshua Todd, No. 1555. Constable Alfred Byrne Byrne, No. 1572. Dismissal. Constable Charles St. Omer, No. 1564. • Death. Constable Henry Wallis, No. 285. Reward. The sum of £2 2s. has been awarded by the Bank of New South Wales to Sergeant J. H. Castles, Okato Deserve, in recognition of his services in the recovery from Maoris of ninety sheep, the property of the creditors in the bankrupt estate of Amos Burr.

During the night of the 26th ultimo the toll notice-board, the property of Thomas Mall, was maliciously wrenched off the tollhouse at Omata, carried nearly half a mile away, and thrown into a pond.

On the 25th ultimo, at Horitiu, Ngaruawahia, a steer, the property of Robert Ilounsell, was maliciously wounded on tho hip, supposed with an axe. Mr. Hounsell offers £lO reward on conviction of the offender.

About the Ist instant, at North Beach, near Greymouth, a cow and a heifer, the property of William and Edward Noble, were maliciously wounded, supposed with an axe, on the rump and off hind-leg.

Between 7 p.m. on the 7th and 11 a.in. on the Bth instant eleven fruit trees were maliciously cut down in tho garden of John Ingram, at Oxford. Mr. Ingram offers £lO reward on conviction of offender.