Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 8, 21 April 1880, Page 63

Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

G. W. King, alias Parsons, is charged, on warrant issued by the Auckland Bench, with stealing, on the 7th instant, from Drake Street, Auckland, a dissolving-view apparatus and slide ; value £10; the property of Arthur Edward Smith. Description : English, a pianoforte tuner, about twenty-three years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, slight build, fair complexion, lightbrown hair, very scanty hair on face, smart erect appearance ; wore blue-rib paget coat, fitting rather tight, black-cloth trousers, and dark vest; usually carries a small bag containing timing tools. lie travels from place lo place on foot and plays the piano at hotels, &c. The dissolving instrument has been found pawned at Rae’s pawn office, Auckland.

Stolen during the night’of the Ist instant, from a clothesline in the yard of the Empire Hotel, Masterton, two chemises, two night-dresses, two pairs of drawers, and two petticoat bodies, all marked S. Semb; the property of Andrew Semb; value £llos. Identifiable.

Stolen during the night of the 14th instant, from the clothesline of Charles Barber Press, Taranaki Street, Wellington, a pair of light-brown tweed trousers with a small stripe, size 5 ; value £l. Identifiable.

(See Police Gazette, 1880, page 53.) The American axe reported stolen from the yard of Thomas Bowden, Chapel Street, Auckland, lias been recovered.

Stolen about the 6th ultimo, from the gold-mining claim of John Corrigan and Co., at Westbrook, Westland, about 60 ounces of gold, amongst which was a piece, about 6 grains, one side of which is the colour of a stone. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 19th ultimo, from off a horse, at Paeroa, a nearly-new saddle and single-rein snaffle bridle ; the property of Takarie te Putu; value £4. Identifiable. It is believed that the saddle and bridle have been taken to the Katikati District, where they may be offered for sale.

Stolen between the 28th ultimo and 2nd instant, from the wreck of the schooner “ llosanah Rose,” at Flaxbourne, Marlborough, three boxes of tobacco, Venus brand, containing2oo lb.; the property of John Anderson ; value £lO. The crew of the schooner suspected.

Stolen between the Ist and 3rd instant, on board the steamer “ Wanaka,” between Wellington and New Plymouth, a ladies’ single-breasted black cashmere jacket, no fastenings on front, extensively braided, and worked with black silk about the pockets and on seams at back, long black-silk fringe round bottom; the property of Mrs. Murray Gibbes; value £3. Identifiable.

Stolen between the 27tli and 29th ultimo, from the railway yard, at Clinton, a wheelbarrow, /p on each leg ; the property of the Government. Identifiable.

Stolen during the night of the 11th instant, from the stable of George Firman, Normanby Street, Wellington, a single-rein bridle with common snaffle-bit; value 10s. Identifiable.

Stolen during the night of the 29th ultimo, from the cabin of the steamer “ City of Cork,” at Queen Street Wharf, Auckland, a blanket, grey on one side and striped on the other, and a nearly-new regatta shirt; the property of Frank Hedges ; value £1 13s. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 21st February last, from (lie coat-pocket of John Hall, which was hanging in a bowling saloon at Taurnnga, a silver Geneva watch, number not known, curb-pattern gold chain with gold bar, small round gold locket containing platted hair, and a gold-mounted rich quartz specimen about half an inch long, with gold band round centre where it had been broken, attached; value £ll. Identifiable.

(See Police Gazette, 1880, page 54.)

The pasteboard box containing silk scarves, &c., reported stolen from the wagon of Thomas Carter Morgan, at Palmerston South, has been recovered, not stolen.

(See Police Gazette, 1880, page 54.)

All the brasses except one stolen off an engine at Dunedin, the property of Russell, Ritchie, and Co., have been recovered. They were found with a Chinaman, in Stuart Street.

Stolen during the night of the sth instant, from the Kyber Pass Railway Bridge, Auckland, a ladder, about 10 feet long, “James McCaul” painted in white letters thereon; the property of James Gibson ; value 10s. Identifiable.

Stolen during the night of the 24th ultimo, from a paddock at Stanmore Road, near Christchurch, a pair of wooden gates, painted white, 4 feet 3 inches high, round iron bar from top to bottom; the property of Elizabeth Ann Stace; value £2. Identifiable.

Stolen about the 2Gth November last, from the railway station at Merton, the following books, with “ Public Library, Otago, New Zealand,” stamped on outside of cover: One volume “Religion of Protestants,” two volumes Democracy in Europe,” three volumes Diana,” one volume “ Callogina,” one volume “Three Visits to Madagascar,” one volume “ Religion in Common Life,” one volume “ Storm Warriors,” three volumes (67, 68, and 69) “ Good Words,” one volume “ Domestic Medicine,” one volume “ Social Economy,” one volume “Is it True one volume “ Lost Senses,” three volumes “By and Bye,” one volume “ Memoir of Norman McLeod,” one volume “ Peeps at the Far East,” one volume “ Eastward,” one volume “Simple Truth,” one volume Contemporary Evolution,” one volume “Observations,” one volume “Addresses,” one volume “Friendly Appeals,” one volume “Pithy Papers,” one volume “Calls of Usefulness,” one volume “Beyond the Breakers,’” one volume “ Debatable Land,” one volume “ Fair Haven,” one volume “ Pilgrims and Strangers,” one volume “ Scottish Church History,” one volume “Famous Sailors,” one volume “ Church of England,” one volume “ Life of Edward,” one volume “Studies in Parliament,” one volume “Echo Club,” one volume “Temperance Cyclopaedia,” one volume “Echo of a Famous Year,” one volume “Good Gardening,” one volume “ Campbell’s Poems,” one volume “ Martineau’s Hymns,” one volume “ Pleasures of Memory,” and ten volumes “ Chambers’s Encyclopedia;” the property of the Otago Education Board; value £l9 15s. 6d. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 29th ultimo, from on board the steamer “ Kopuru,” at To Kopuru, eight bottles of porter; the property of Henry Slator ; value 16s.

Stolen about the Ist instant, at Caversham, ten brace-bits, a hand-saw, twelve chisels, two hammers, ten gimblets, two screw-wrenches, and four blacking brushes; the property of Benjamin Renshaw ; value £4. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 7th instant, from the forecastle of the steamer “Maori,” at Rattray Street Wharf, Dunedin, a£l note; the property of Louis Ncheridge.

Stolen on the 19th ultimo, from the passage of the Normal School, Moray Place, Dunedin, a girls’ very dark-blue-worsted cloth jacket, basket pattern, two outside pockets with black fringe flaps, two rows of cloth buttons on front, and black satin round collar ; the property of Charles Hilgendorf; value £2 10s. Identifiable. '

Stolen about the 30th ultimo, from the platform of the Wanganui Railway Station, a new box about 3 feet long by 16 inches deep, painted dark blue, corners strapped with iron, containing a suit of grey tweed, four or five new white shirts, two match-planes, a beading- a smoothing-plane, a jackplane, a trying-plane, six or seven saws, several chisels, a number of gimblets, bradawls, &e., and a pocketbook containing letters; the property of Thomas Kyle value £l4. Identifiable.

Stolen between the 19tli of January last and the Btli instant, from a box in the railway parcel office at Oamaru, an overcoat with blue nap, a suit of blue cloth, a pair of West of Eng-

land tweed trousers and vest, a pair of light-tweed trousers, and a pair of elastic-side boots ; the properly of Alexander Guun ; value £ll 17s. Gd. Identifiable.