Miscellaneous Information.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 7, 5 April 1882, Page 52

Miscellaneous Information.

Resignations. Third-class Sergeant George Edwin Bow'ers, No. 357, Constable John Meade Hobson, No. 1010. Constable Henry Frederick ILankin, No. 1058. Constable Percy Groom, No. 1099. Constable Joseph Cowan, No. 1319. Constable John Francis Benjamin, No. 1431. Constable Joseph Johnston, No. 1479. Constable Edmond O’Dea, No. 1857. Constable John Willing Warren, No. 1897. Constable John Shaw', No. 1997. Constable David McLean, No. 2147. Constable Wdliam Howie, No. 2183. Constable William Frederick Steere, No. 2229. Constable James Hogw'ood, No. 2313. Constable Robert Old, No. 2318. Death. Sergeant-Major Henry Dundas, No. 78. Reivards.

The sum of £8 has been awarded to Constable Edward Lamb, Auckland Police, for the arrest of Thomas Sturt, a deserter from H.M. ship “ Lark.”

The sum of £4 has been awarded to Constable Robert Francis Bayley, Westport Police, for the arrest of two seamen who deserted from the brigantine “Tarmow,” at Westport.

On the 10th or 11th ultimo, at Pine Hill, near Dunedin, a cow, the property of Richard Meredith, was maliciously shot dead.

(See Police Gazette, 1881, page 171.)

Maliciously cutting the rope 3 of a punt at Inangahua Landing, the property of Frederick A. G. Archer: Silas Gibson has been arrested by Constable Arthur J. Bamford, Westland Police, for this offence, and sentenced to three years’ penal servitude.

On the 15th or 16th ultimo, at Flaxton, Canterbury, a horse, the property of Arthur Campbell, was maliciously wounded on the ribs, supposed with a tomahawk.

On the 12th ultimo, at St. Kilda, near Dunedin, a number of trees in a plantation, the property of Benjamin Tlirop, were maliciously destroyed and damaged to the extent of about £lO.

During the night of the 15th ultimo the window, sign-board, and the front of tho saddler’s shop of Alexander Maxwell, at Waimate, were smeared with coal-tar, and damaged to the extent of £5. John Green, a sail - and horse-cover - maker at Waimate, suspected.