Miscellaneous Information.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume V, Issue 5, 9 March 1881, Page 38

Miscellaneous Information.

Promotion. Constable William Aytoun Silver, No. 923, to be Third-class Sergeant.

Resignations. Constable William Wilson, No. 842. Constable John Mulcahy, No. 845.

Discharged. Constable Patrick Graynor, No. 1530.

Dismissed. Constable Tom Richardson, No. 1002

Death. Constable John Kerr, No. 89. Reioard. The sum of £2 has been awarded from the Reward Fund to Constable Alfred James Mitchell, Otaki Police, in l’ecognition of his services in connection with the prosecution of Benjamin Cannon, fined £25, and £4 19s. costs, for sly grog-selling.

About the 15th ultimo one of the spring points of the Roslyn and Dunedin Tramway Company was maliciously broken in Rattray Street, Dunedin, and damaged to the extent of £l.

About the Ist January last, and about the 10th ultimo, two shovels were maliciously broken, and 350 bricks maliciously destroyed, in the brickyard of Thomas Bryant, Dampier’s Bay, Lyttelton, value £1 ; and four large bottles were maliciously placed in the mill used for preparing the clay.

On the 23rd ultimo, at Hampden, a cow, value £8 10s., the property of Henry T. Murcott, was maliciously stabbed, from the effects of which she died.

During the night of the 18th ultimo a rail and five wires of the pound at Rakaia were maliciously cut through, and four horses which were in the pound released. The pound, which is the property of the Ashburton County Council, was damaged to the extent of ss.

Between the 13th and 18th ultimo a wooden ornamental knob and about 4 feet of an iron standard of the River Avon foot-bridge, East Town Belt, the property of the Christchurch City Council, were maliciously broken and damaged to the extent of 10s.

On the 19th ultimo, at the commonage, near Clyde, a cow, value £6, the property of John Holloway, was maliciously wounded with a bullet, which broke one of her legs.

During the night of the 15th ultimo, at Bush Creek, near Queenstown, about a quarter of a mile of a ti'amway line, the property of Michael Hughes, was maliciously torn up and damaged to the extent of £2O.

About the 23rd ultimo a shed at Port Chalmers, the property of the Government, was maliciously damaged, to the extent of about 7s. 6d.