Miscellaneous Information.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 15, 28 July 1880, Page 127

Miscellaneous Information.

Resignations. Constable Joseph Hynes, No. 274. Constable William Charles Maxwell, No. 522. Constable Benjamin Barter Welsh, No. 670. Constable Archibald Wood, No. 1078. Constable James Taylor Hirst, No. 1809. Constable John Alexander Murray Davidson, No. 1831. Dismissals. Constable John Marshall, No. 968. Constable Henry Crocker, No. 1155. Constable Patrick Dinan, No. 1396. Rewards.

The sum of £3 has been awarded from the Beward Fund to Constable Michael Leahy, Christchurch Police, in recognition of his vigilance in the arrest of Richard Wood, sentenced at the last sittings of the Supreme Court at Christchurch to two years’ labour for breaking into a warehouse and stealing a large quantity of drapery therefrom.

The sum of £lO lias been awarded from the Reward Fund to Detective Martin Grace, Napier Police, in recognition of the exemplary tact, energy, and perseverance displayed by him in the arrest and prosecution of William Henry Shaw and John Boyd, alias Hutton, sentenced at the last sittings of the Supreme Court at Napier, the former to four years’ penal servitude for arson and three years’ penal servitude for embezzlement, and the latter to fifteen years’ penal servitude ou three charges of attempting to upset a railway train.

The sum of £2 has been awarded to Sergeant Henry Martin, Auckland Police, in recognition of his services in the prosecusecution of eight seamen, five of whom were sentenced to twelve months’ labour each, for embezzling cargo of the ship “Chile,” and ordered to pay £54 14s. for damage.

The police stations at the following places will be closed from the Ist proximo, namely, Upper Hutt, in the Wellington District; Danevirk, Ormond, and Waipukurau, in the Hawke’s Bay District; Alexandra, Panmure, and Whatawhata, in the Auckland District; Shortland, in the Thames District; Manutalii, in the Taranaki District; Turakina, in the Wanganui District; Spring Grove, in the Nelson District; Head of the Bay, Governor’s Bay, Pleasant Point, and Waitaki, in the Canterbury District; and Greenstone, iu the Grey District.

On the morning of the 14th instant a large pane of glass was maliciously broken in a window of the dwelling of Rev. Henry Clere, Featherston Terrace, Wellington.

On the morning of the 22nd instant, at Masterton, a watercloset, the property of James Nichol, was malicious!}' upset and damaged to the extent of £1; four beehives, the property of Mark Hoare, were wilfully upset and damaged to the extent of £4; a washing-tub and clothes, the property of Orlando Corringe, were maliciously damaged to the extent of 155.; and a spade, value, 6s the property of Frederick Bacon, maliciously broken.