Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 25, 13 December 1882, Page 198

Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

(See Police Gazette, 1882, page 172.) The warrant issued for the arrest of John Cooper Jowett, for the larceny ns a bailee of 10s., the property of James Hutchings, has been cancelled.

(See Police Gazette, 1882, page 172.)

Isaac Wilson, charged on warrant with stealing £2O, at Waitara, the property of Robert Seager, was arrested at Auckland by Detective Samuel Brennan, and remanded to New Plymouth. He was admitted to bail in his own recognizance to appear at the Resident Magistrate’s Court there on the 24th ultimo, but he did not appear.

(See Police Gazette, 1882, pages 2 and 93.)

The warrant issued for the arrest of Louis Ingram, charged with stealing John Hard Anderson’s watch, at Napier, has been cancelled. The watch was traced to the possession of George Cameron, who has been sentenced to two months’ labour for the offence.

Arthur Graham is charged, on warrant issued by the Dunedin Bench, with the larceny as a bailee, at Dunedin, on the sth instant, of two horse-collars, a pair of traces, and a pair of blinkers with reins ; the property of Robert Wallace; value £2 10s. Identifiable. Description: Scotch, a tramcardriver, about twenty-eight years of age, about 5 feet 7£ inches high, rather stout build, fair complexion, fair hair beard whiskers and moustache, chin may now be shaved; dressed in dark-brown tweed suit and black-felt hat. He will likely endeavour to leave the colony.

Stolen on the 28th or 29th ultimo, at Auckland, a mashhammer, head about 1 inch long and 2 inches square, three nicks made with a chisel on each side of eye ; three cast-steel masons’ chisels, about 7 inches long, three nicks made with a chisel on each side of eyes ; and a pick ; the property of Edward Byrne ; value £l. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 23rd ultimo, at Auckland, a jack-plane, a trying-plane, a brace, four pattern-makers’ gouges, six short chisels and gouges, a cross-cut saw, a tenon-saw, a 9-inch square, four gimblets, and three hammers ; the property of James Carlow ; value £2 10s. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 20th ultimo, from a railway-carriage between Silvcrstream and Featherston, a new double-breasted grey Irish-frieze ulster coat, long slit at back, short waistband with buttons, lined with light tweed, dark-horn buttons; the property of Edward Harris; value £2. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to a labourer who left the carriage at Kaitoke.

Stolen on the 23rd ultimo, from Russell Street, Duuedin, a builders’ nearly-new square kerosene lamp; the property of Joseph N. Clayton; value 10s. Identification doubtful.

Stolen on the 18th or 19th ultimo, from Saltwater Creek, near Tirnaru, a circular eel-net, about feet long, about 18 inches in diameter, laths running lengthwise and bows at each end, rope attached; the property of M. J, Kembley; value £2. Identifiable.

Stolen between the 6th and 27th ultimo, from a box in a shed at Miss Allan’s registry office, St. Andrew Street, Dunedin, a ladies’ drab-silk-rep princess-robe dress, trimmed with lace to correspond ; the property of Catherine McCafferty ; value £5. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to Ann Noble, Irish, a servant, thirty-five years of age, 5 feet 4 inches high, stout build, dark hair and complexion.

Stolen on the 23rd or 24th ultimo, from a van at the Dunedin Rail way-stat ion, a quantity of apples ; the property of the Government; value about 12s. 6d.

(See Police Gazette, 1882, page 133.) The totara and pine piles, the property of Sinclair Young, reported stolen at Invercargill, were used in mistake for firewood,

(See Police Gaxetle, 1882, page 173.) The saddle, the property of George E. Holloway, stolen from an outhouse at Cambridge, haß been recovered.

Stolen on the 19th or 20th ultimo, from the gold-mining claim of John Leys and party, at Gravelly Gully, Mount Pisa, Otago, between 1-1 and 15 ounces of gold ; value about £SO. Chinese miners suspected.

Stolen on the 23rd or 24th ultimo, from The Port, Nelson, a tarpaulin, 7 by 8 feet, made of four breadths of canvas, centre seam 1£ inches broad, newly tarred, twine beckets; the property of William Woods ; value £1 10s. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to Henry Burnett Mitchell, master of the ketch “ Calix,” forty years of age, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, fair hair, sandy beard whiskers and moustache. He left Nelson on the 23rd ultimo for Frenchman’s Bay.

Stolen between the 17th and 27th ultimo, from the premises of Grant P. Farquhar, corner of William and Stafford Steeets, Dunedin, a long white-wool sheepskin rug, 5 feet by 2£ feet, lined with canvas, not much worn ; value £3. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 28th ultimo, from Dowling Street, Dunedin, a new wheelbarrow, painted red on inside and blue on outside; the property of James Simpson ; value 16s. Identifiable.

Stolen between the 23rd and 29th ultimo, from the yard of Thomas Fergus, George Street, Dunedin, a nearly-new wheelbarrow, branded HF, a small piece off end of right handle ; value 128. Identifiable.

Stolen during the night of the 12th ultimo, from an outhouse at Cambridge, an old saddle, knee-pads partly torn off, IRIHE cut in leather across seat, and IRI cut on inner small flaps; the property of Inhi; value £2. Identifiable.

Stolen during the night of the 24th ultimo, at Cambridge, a nearly-new single-rein bridle with plated snaffle-bit; the property of R. D. Stuart; value £l. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 29th or 30th ultimo, from a stable at Putiki, Wanganui, a bullock-hide saddle considerably worn, a square piece of lining sewn on cantle, “J. E. Evans, Wellington,” marked on flaps; large common irons, leather girth, and surcingle; the property of Thomas G. Richardson; value £2 10s. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 22nd ultimo, at Greytown, Wellington, a nearly-new yellow-leather purse, about 5 by 3.) inches, containing three new £1 notes on the Bank of New Zealand, supposed numbers A 090002, A 090003, A 090004 or A 090006 ; an old half sovereign, with a hole near the edge, and 4s. Gd. in silver; the property of Samuel Garrity. Notes and half-sovereign supposed identifiable.

Stolen on the 11th or 12th ultimo, from the yard of the Railway Hotel, Lyttelton, a case containing three dozen quartbottles of Guinness’s stout, bottled by Johnston, of Liverpool; the property of Ellen Graham ; value £1 16s.

Stolen on the 24th or 25th ultimo, from the stable of Patrick Doyle, Oxford Teirace West, Christchurch, a colonial-made hogskin saddle, maker’s name, “Brown, Dee Street, Invercargill,” stamped in several places thereon, plain stirrup-irons; and a double-reined pelham bridle, with white forehead band, both about a year in use ; value £7 10s. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 20th or 21st ultimo, at Harapipi, near Alexandra, four pigs ; the property of James McQuirk ; value £9. Maoris suspected.

Stolen between the 6th and 16th ultimo, from a shed, at Lyttelton, four iron-truck barrow-wheels 6 inehes in diameter, and two iron axles about 15 inches long; the property of Robert Flett; value £L 10s.

Stolen on the 20th ultimo, from the auction-room of Gabriel Lewis, Queen Street, Auckland, a black opera-glass, with black-moroceo-leather case ; value 7s. 6d.

Stolen on the 23rd ultimo, from off the house of F. W. Brookfield, Seafield View Road, Auckland, a cage 2 feet long, 15 inches wide, and 18 inches high, made of wood and wire, containing a light-coloured canary and a dark-yellow canary — males ; value £4. Cage identifiable.

Stolen on the 2nd instant, from a boat between Rattray and Stuart Street Jetties, Dunedin, about 50 fathoms of fishingnet, 1-inch mesh, two outside wings nearly new, and 50 meshes deep, one inside part nearly new, the other old, both 100 meshes

deep ; 130 fathoms hauling-line, nearly new; 73 fathoms 1-inch old hauling-line, two 12-feet oais, and a 10-feet oa r the property of Ah Hoy ; value £9 18s. Identifiable.