Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 16, 9 August 1882, Page 124

Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

A man, name unknown, is chai’ged with stealing, on the 7tli ultimo, at Waipukurau, a light-blue crochet-work berlin-wool shawl; the property of Mrs. Caroline May ; value £2. Identifiable. Description: About forty yeai-s of age, about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, stout build, dark complexion, long dark beard and moustache; wore blue overcoat. He was riding a horse, and went in the direction of Waipukurau. Mrs. May lost the shawl on the road, and the offender, soon after he found it, was asked to give it up, but declined to do so.

Stolen about the 20th ultimo, from off a hoi’se at Opunake, a neai‘ly-new colonial-made saddle, green hide seat and imitation pigskin flaps, “ Robt. Crawford” written with ink on inside of near Hap, stain from blood on lining near crupper-ring, rusty irons, and a single-rein bridle with blue foi’ehead band; the pi-opei ty of Robert Crawford ; value £3 10s. Identifiable. Maoris suspected.

Stolen on the 24tli or 25th ultimo, from a shed in the Te Aro Hotel yard, Willis Street, Wellington, twelve bottles of porter labelled “ Guinness’s stout, bottled by Moline and Co., Dublin,” and a case containing twelve bottles of gin, labelled “ Hollands gin, j>TDK£i, John Kyper and Sons, Rotterdam the property of Joseph Whelan; value £3 lls. 9d.

Stolen between the 27th June last and the 2nd ultimo, from the stable of James Wilson, seven-mile peg, North Road, Canterbury, a nearly-new saddle with pigskin seat, seat dark from oil, “J. J. Wilson ” marked on stirrup-leathers, a piece of leather attached to stirrup-leathers to keep the trousers from the irons, and a leather girth ; value £3. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 24th or 25th ultimo, from the premises of the Hon. John Johnston, Fitzherbert Terrace, Wellington, three fantail pigeons, one speckled black and white with wings and tail cut square, the others slate-colour, one with topknot; value 7s. 6d. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 24th or 25th ultimo, from the yard of Mrs. Margaret Gibbons, Cambridge Hoad, Wellington, four white calico shirts with linen cuffs and fronts, two plain and two plaited fronts, a small piece of calico sewn on the tails of two, and a few stitches of cotton-thread drawn through the fronts of the others, two mended on front; two white-cotton pockethandkerchiefs, six pairs of cotton and six pairs of woollen socks ; value £1 18s. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 2 till or 25th ultimo, from off the ship “ City of Perth ” at Port Chalmers, about 40 fathoms of 3-inch hemp rope ; the property of John Mill; value £3. Identifiable.

Stolen at 2 a.m. on the 25th ultimo, from a bath in the Botanical Gardens, Dunedin, two trout, about 41b. each; the property of the Otago Acclimatization Society.

Stoxen on the 20th or 2lst ultimo, from the stable of Edward Acton, near Pleasant Point, an old single-rein snaffle bridle with green forehead band, one of reins cut, and one of the bars of bit broken off short; value 10s. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 12th or 13th ultimo, from the garden of W. Skey, Tinakori Road, Wellington, a small wheelbarrow, painted red, small wooden wheel with four spokes, iron tire about 10 inches in diameter; value £l. Identifiable.

Stolen between the 6th and 12th ultimo, from the Telegraph Hotel stables, Opunake, two reins of a ladies’ bridle with common square buckles ; a hunting-whip, silver-mounted, horse and fox’s heads combined, cane handle, and heavy thong; the property of Robert Watson ; value £1 10s. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 17th ultimo, from Richard Kohler’s waxworks show, at Auckland, a small revolver, stock and barrel silver-plated; value £2. Identification doubtful.

(See Police Gazette, 1882, page 116.)

The blanket, the property of Reginald Winter, reported stolen from on boaid the steamer “Wellington,” at Auckland, has been recovered by Sergeant Henry Martin, Auckland Police.

Stolen on the 19th or 20th ultimo, from the premises of Dr. Brittin, Victoria Street, Christchurch, two common pigeons, one with brown body, white head and tail, the other with blue body, white breast, and long head ; value ss. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 19th or 20th ultimo, from the clothes-line of Barnabas James llale, corner of East Belt and Feny Road, Christchurch, a pair of large white double blankets with several stains on them, may be marked “B. J. Hale;” value £1 10s. Supposed identifiable.

Stolen between the 13th and 17th ultimo, from Weedon’s Cemetery, Canterbury, fifty fir trees ; the property of the Weedon Cemetery Board of Trustees ; value £5.

Stolen on the 11th or 12th ultimo, from the cart of Alfred Taylor, in Victoria Street, Christchurch, a nearly-new light-eolourcd-tweed waterproof overcoat, breast lined with check tweed, and a nearly-new pair of dark driving-gloves ; value £2 11s. 6d. Coat identifiable.

Stolen on the 23rd or 24th ultimo, from the guards’-room, at the Dunedin Railway-station, a large letter, with “ Secretary, Kaitangata Coal Company” printed thereon, containing £3 4s. 5d., some correspondence, and railway invoices ; the properly of the Kaitangata Coal Company. Correspondence and invoices identifiable.

Stolen on the 20tli or 21st idtimo, from an outhouse in the yard of Albert Doughty, Karangahape Road, Auckland, six pigeons ; value £3. Identification doubtful.

Stolen between the 12th and 14th ultimo, from the workshop of John T. Thompson, Gladstone, Invercargill, a small glaziers’ diamond ; Talue £1 Is.

Stolen between the 23rd and 26th ultimo, from a building in course of erection in Reid Road, South Dunedin, four chit-els, a handsaw, and a hammer; the property of Thomas Mooney ; value 15s.

Stolen on the 22nd ultimo, from the bakehouse of George Buckley, at Pateo, a pocketbook with black cover, 6 by 4 inches,

opens at end, containing several manuscript receipes for making confectionery, “ George Buckley ” written in several places in book ; value £5. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to Francis Stanley, alias Brown, a native of London, a baker, 5 feet 3 inches high, slight build, fair hair worn short, light goatee, and small fair moustache ; dressed in light-grey suit., soft blackfelt hat, and watertight boots. lie is supposed to have gone to Westport by the steamer “ Wakatu.” His wife and family live at Papatoitoi, Auckland.

Stolen on the 30!h or 31st ultimo, from Avonside, New Brighton Road, Christchui-ch, a very large drake, four young dark drakes, and eight ducks, chiefly dark, one speckled colour ; the property of Frederick Vesey ; value £1 lCs. Supposed identifiable.

Stolen on the 12th or 13th ultimo, from the railway-station, Waipuku, Taranaki, an iron jimerow or rail-bender, about 50-lb. weight, used for bending railway-rails; the property of the Government; value £B. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 3rd instant, from the yard of Priscilla Wiseman, Athol Place, Dunedin, a white counterpane, a pair of ladies’ drawers, and two toilet-covers trimmed with turkey-red ; value £1 7s. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 24th ultimo, from off a horse, at Makaraka, Poverty Bay, a saddle, about half worn, hogskin seat, green hide flaps and knee-pads, a small patch on off-knee pad, cut in flaps for surcingle, round stirrup-irons, and green hide girth partly eaten by rats ; the property of Robert Austin ; value £7. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 25th ultimo, from a clothes-line in the yard of Thomas Litt, Elliott Street, Auckland, a ladies’ white-cotton singlet, five pairs of diaper pinafores, four pairs of children’s drawers, and a child’s unbleached nightgown. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 31st ultimo or Ist instant, from the Exhibition Buildings, Christchurch, two crowbars, octagon shape, one about 2 feet long, the other 3 feet long ; a claw hammer, octagonshaped head, GS on each side of handle near head ; and a cold chisel about 7 inches long ; the property of George Stokes; value 18s. Identifiable.