Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume V, Issue 10, 18 May 1881, Page 83

Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

(See Police Gazette, 1881, page 36.) John Eaton, charged on warrant with stealing £2 at the Eorbury Racecourse, the property of Simon Perry, has been arrested by Detective Robert Bain, Dunedin Police, and discharged.

Stolen on the 25th ultimo, at Palmerston North, a £2O note on the Bank of New South Wales, No. 656 ; the property of Nesbitt Lumsden. Identifiable. Edger L. Curtis has been committed for trial for this offence, but the stolen note has not been recovered.

Stolen on the 28th ultimo, at Patea, a silver lever huntingwatch, maker Philip Cohen, London, No. 75174, main spring broken, hair guard with oval locket, cracked on both sides, attached; the property of John McKenzie ; value £ll. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 29th ultimo, from the meat-safe of Thomas Quill, at Ashburton, a surloin of beef, a leg of mutton, and 3 lb. of sausages ; value 18s.

Stolen on the 23rd ultimo, from off a horse in the Criterion Hotel stables, Cambridge, an English hogskin hunting-saddle, considerably w r orn, very small or imitation knee-pads, ripped or torn on right pommel, old round odd irons; the property of Samuel Fletcher; value £3. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 21st ultimo, from the stable of G. H. Lavers, West Queen Street, Auckland, a nearly-new four-pronged stablefork; value 6s. Identifiable.

Stolen during the night of the 22nd ultimo, from a shed at Wanganui, a youths’ nearly-new saddle and a double-rein bridle with pelham bit and curb, the reins belong to a ladies’ bridle and have no buckle in centre of either, one rein much cracked ; value £3. Identifiable.

Stolen about the 18th ultimo, from the cabin of the cutter “ Annie,” at Lyttelton, a small round brass barometer, about 10 inches in circumference; the property of George Sefton; value £2. Identifiable.

Stolen between the 241 li ultimo and 4th instant, from the back wall of the Occidental Hotel, Manse Street, Dunedin, a brass-rod grating in cedar frame, 3 feet by 2 feet, f-ineh rods, li inches apart; the property of Henry J. Walter; value 10s. Identifiable.

Stolen during the night of the 4th instant, from the clothesline of George Bowron, at Bingsland, a cotton singlet with sleeves, mended on back with white flannel; a pair of flannel drawers, and three canvas towels; value ss. Identifiable.

Stolen between the 16th March last and the 20th ultimo, at Timaru, two coils of cable-head wire about 8 chains long, had been previously in use; the property of the South Canterbury Board of Education ; value £1 10s.

Stolen during the night of the 4th instant, from a shed at South Dunedin, three grey-and-wbite geese, a white gander, a grey-and-white duck, and a brown duck; the property of Michael Ross; value £1 9s. Identifiable.

Stolen during the night of the 2nd instant, from the goldmining claim of John Donnelly, at Rutherglen, Westland, about 2 ounces of gold ; value about £7 12s.

Stolen during the night of the 2nd instant, from the clothesline of Agnes Domigan, Tay Street, Invercargill, a black-and white-striped Crimean shirt, a grey-striped cotton shirt, blue ground, lined with calico across shoulders, and two boys’ shirts with blue-and-black stripes ; value £l. Identifiable.

Stolen about the 17th ultimo, from Rakapuka Station, Geraldine, a colonial-made saddle, large knee-pads, staples in front for swag-straps, Ds for breast-plate, a portion of leather worn off crupper-staple, one of stirrup-leathers repaired with a shoe-lace, three-bar square stirrup-irons ; the property of Hugh McKay ; value £4 10s. Identifiable. Two brothers named Hunter suspected. They left the station during the night of the 17th ultimo, one riding a bay may, the other a bay gelding; both had small swags.

Stolen between the 29th ultimo and Ist instant, at Cambridge, a colonial-made stock-saddle, about half-worn, greenhide seat, a nail out of inner side of near flap, round stirrupirons ; the property of William Reed; value £2. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 19tli ultimo, from a shed at Black Head, Hawke’s Bay District, a new dark-tweed suit, and a new pair of tweed trousers lighter in colour than suit; the property of Thomas Cross; value £B. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to a man named Miller and a man name unknown. Description : Miller is English, twenty-three years of age, 5 feet 11 inches high, brown hair; wore moleskin trousers, and carried a sack

swag. Second. Is about twenty-six years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, brown hair; wore moleskin trousers ; carried a sack swag. They are supposed to have gone to Napier by way of the coast.

Stolen between the 27th ultimo and the 7th instant, from on board the steamer “ Rotomahana,” between Hobart and Napier, a nearly-new pigskin saddle, flaps recently repaired, no stirrup-leathers; a hand-saw, a 1-inch auger, three gouge chisels, and a carpenters’ 2-foot rule with a dent in brass at end; the property of Alfred William Jones ; value £6 6s. Saddle and rule identifiable. Three of the steamer’s crew suspected.

Stolen on the 3rd instant, from off a horse at Hamilton East, an old saddle, newly covered, nerv seat and flaps, old lining, old fashioned irons, and white-web girth; the property of George White ; value £1 15s. Identifiable.

Stolen between the 2oth and 28th ultimo, at Alexandra, Waikato, a eolouial-made saddle, considerably worn, flaps patched, small knee-pads, small stirrup-leathers, round irons, and an old plain bridle with white forehead-band ; the property of Edward Keighley ; value £2. Identifiable.

Stolen during the night of the 10th instant, from the trap of Anton Hobolth, at Carterton, three books of “ Cassell’s Popular Educator,” containing volumes one to six, bound in dark-purple leather with black back and corners, number of volumes in gilt letters on backs ; value £3 ss. Identifiable.

Stolen about the lltli instant, from the meat-factory of James Gear, Lambton Quay, Wellington, a ham, 101 b. weight, sewn in brown calico, marked “ Convent;” value 10s. Cover identifiable.

Stolen about the Bth instant, from the garden of Phillip Davis, Salisbury Street, Christchurch, a four-pronged English garden-fork, the prongs of which are square and taper off at points, rough colonial-made handle; value 7s. 6d. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 7th instant, from the premises of Lionel Phillips, Eden Crescent, Auckland, a bullock’s tongue, value 35., and a small quantity of firewood.

Stolen on the Bth instant, from the fowlhouse of Jane Jones, at Caversham, two pure-bred young Bramah hens, a common hen, and a common grey rooster with double comb ; value 10s. Identifiable.