Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume V, Issue 18, 7 September 1881, Page 153

Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

(See Police Gazette, 1881, page 148.) Moses Churchill, charged on warrant with stealing chisels, &e., at Christchurch, the property of Arthur Power, has been arrested by Constable Robert Neill, Ashburton Police.

Stolen during the night of the 14th ultimo, from the premises of Henry Williams, at Napier, an iudiarubber door-mat; value £l. Identifiable.

Stolen during the night of the 14th ultimo, from the premises of John McVay, at Napier, two cocoanut door-mats, 3 feet by 2 feet; value £1 Is.

Stolen about the 10th ultimo, from the premises of France S. Hoeing, Farm Hill, Katikati, an oak bushel measure or tub, unpainted, three iron hoops, containing fourteen or fifteen dozen hen eggs; value £1 12s. 9d.

Stolen on the 19th ultimo, from the premises of James Renwick, George Street, Dunedin, a large woollen guernsey jacket, navy-blue colour, right breast-pocket; value 13s. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 15th ultimo, at Gisborne, a nearly-new bullock-hide saddle, without knee-pads, “Nikora” written in ink on near side below pommel; the property of Nikora Horatu; value £3. Identifiable.

Stolen between the 13th and 15th ultimo, from on board the lighter “ Maid of the Mill,” at Port Ahuriri, Napier, two tarpaulins, one 6 feet by 4 feet, the other 4 feet square ; the property of Peter Petersen ; value 18s. Identifiable.

Stolen during the night of the 15th ultimo, from the clothesline of Arthur Ormsby, at Timaru, four white-calico shirts with plain linen fronts, two calico night-shirts, two pairs of cal co drawers, and a small white honeycomb counterpane; all nearly new, and marked “ Ormsby ” with marking-ink; value £3. Identifiable.

Stolen between the 18th and 21st July last, from an outhouse at Little River, a side of bacon, 47 lb. weight; the property of John Olphert; value £1 7s. sd.

Stolen on the 24th ultimo, from the Clmstchurch Railwaystation, a set of fire-irons, black-leaded, point of shovel perforated ; the property of the Government; value 10s. Identification doubtful.

Stolen on the 2nd ultimo, from on board the cutter “ Ellen Curran,” at Maketu, a coloured counterpane, a red blanket, a pair of dark-tweed trousers (a hole burnt near one of pockets), a dark-tweed vest, two coloured-cotton shirts, two sheathknives, and two turkish towels; the property of William Sullivan and John Millias ; value £1 10s. Blanket and trousers identifiable. Maoris suspected.

(See Police Gazette, 1881, page 73.) The two boat-paddles, the property of William Cains, stolen from Otahuhu, have been recovered.

Stolen during the night of the 18th ultimo, from the premises of Frederick Carson, Ponsonby Road, Auckland, a forequarter of bacon, 20 lb. weight; value £l.

Supposed stolen on the 22nd ultimo, from a railway-van between Shag Point Junction and Oamaru, a small brownleather bag, marked “ Puki-iviti,” containing fifteen £1 notes on the Colonial Bank, three £1 notes on the Bank of New Zealand, two half-sovereigns, £1 18s. in silver, and a penny; the property of the Government. Bag identifiable.

Stolen during the night of the 17th ultimo, from the garden of John Taylor, Ponsonby Road, Auckland, a weeping nectarine tree, stem about 6 feet long, and top spread between 9 and 12 feet; value £3.

Stolen on the 22nd ultimo, from the premises of Henry

Hull, at Helensville, a nearly-new American axe; value 10s. Identifiable. Warapapa Natives suspected.

Stolen on the 2nd ultimo, from the clothes-line of Herman Geissler, at Waterford, a cotton sheet, 3 feet by 12 feet, G marked with ink on one of the cornel’s, and a white honeycomb towel with red stripes at ends; value 9s. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 29th ultimo, from the verandah of the house of Alexander Thomson, at Kensington, a round dome-topped wire bird-cage, 2 feet high and 15 inches in diameter, containing a New Zealand paroquet, with green body and red head; value £2. Cage identifiable.

Stolen on the 18th or 19th ultimo, from the railway premises at Kurow, Otago, a wooden box, 2\ feet long by 1£ feet deep, containing groceries ; the property of Robert P. Sharp; value £7 14s. 6d.

Stolen during the night of the 25th ultimo, from the door of the house of Henry Moss, College Street, Wellington, an indiarubber door-mat, 2J feet by feet; value £1 ss. Identifiable.

Stolen during the night of the 22nd ultimo, from Cambridge Terrace, Christchurch, about 5 feet of lead pipe, about 25 lb. weight; the property of Thomas Havell; value 10s. Identification doubtful.

Stolen about the 15th ultimo, from a hut on the farm of A. Dornwall, at Lovel’s Flat, three pieces of blue-gum scantling, 13 feet long, used as tie-beams, a few pieces of sawn scantling, two old grates, and part of a wooden gate; value 7s. 6d. Portion of gate identifiable.

Stolen between the 24th and 26th ultimo, from an unoccupied house in Forth Street, Dunedin, a 12-gallon tin boiler; the property of F. Jones; value 12s. Identifiable.

Stolen during the night of the 29th ultimo, from the premises of George Gerrie, at Patea, a pair of men’s watertight boots, a pair of stays, a white petticoat, two night-dresses, two children’s brown-wincey dresses, a dark-maroon twill-wincey dress, and a towel; value £3 12s. Identifiable.

Stolen between the 13th and 15th ultimo, from the premises of Wilson and Taine, Dee Street, Invercargill, 460 rabbitskins, tied in bundles with flax or twine, twenty in each bundle; value £5 4s. 6d.

Stolen on the 23rd ultimo, from the corner of High and Dowling Streets, Dunedin, an 18-gallon cask, ends painted red, and marked “ No. 404, M. J.” ; the property of George Prescot; value £l. Identifiable.

Stolen between the 13th and 15th ultimo, from a new building at Woolcombe’s Gully, near Timaru, a plough plane, a rip-saw, a chisel, a panel-saw, a f-inch bit, a spiritlevel, a jack-plane, a smoothing-plane, an 8-inch square, and a 12-iuck chisel; all branded “J. H. Cotton;” the property of James Henry Cotton ; value £4 16s. Identifiable.