Miscellaneous Information.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume VII, Issue 13, 27 June 1883, Page 112

Miscellaneous Information.

Appointment as Constable. Patrick Sheahon, No. 2556.

Resignations. First Class Sergeant Charles Brown, No. 135. Constable Ngarori Pairau, No. 508. Constable John Moloney, No. 1000. Constable James Smith, No. 1499. Constable William Robert McKinstry, No. 1781. Constable Charles Fieldsend Clark, No. 2001. Constable Charles Stanley, No. 2496.

Discharged on Compensation. Constable James Murdock, No. 432. Constable Daniel Loftus, No. 649. Discharged on Expiration of Term of Service. Constable Thomas McGloin, No. 1840. Rewards. The sum of £5 has been awarded by the Prisons Department to Constable James Meldrum, Dunedin Police, in recognition of his services in connection with the arrest of Charles Vickers, who escaped on the 30th ultimo from the gaol at punedin, where he was undergoing a sentence of five years’ penal servitude for burglary.

The sum of £1 13s. 4d. each has been awarded by the Auckland University College Council to Sergeant Henry Martin and Constables George Foreman and Luke McDonnell, Auckland Police, for the recovery of the body of the late Professor Walker, who was accidentally drowned in Auckland Harbour.

The sum of £3 has been awarded to Sergeant F. H. Morice, Lyttelton Police, for the arrest of a deserter from the ship “ Firth of Olua.”

The sum of £1 has been awarded to Constable James McCausland, Lyttelton Police, for the arrest of a deserter from the ship “ Oronsey.”

The sum of 10s. has been awarded by the Customs Department to Constable Luke McDonnell, Auckland Police, in recognition of his services in connection with the prosecution of F. Whitelaw, of the Kamo Hotel, convicted for a breach of “ The Beer Duty Act, 1880.”

The sum of £2 each has been awarded from the Reward Fund to Constables Henry Clarke and John S. Bernard, Auckland Police, in recognition of the very commendable energy and perseverance displayed by them in effecting the arrest of Edmund Wilson, Edward Wilson, John Mclntosh, and John lrwine, convicted on several charges of housebreaking and larceny.

The sum of £3 has been awarded from the Reward Fund to Constable Robert Lemm, Oamaru Police, in recognition of his services in connection with the detection, &c., of Bridget Logan, fined ss. for sly grog-selling, and Mary Jane Crombie, fined £5 and costs for being the occupier of the premises in which the liquor was sold, and being privy to its sale.

The sum of £2 has been awarded by the Auckland Acclimatization Society to Constable Thomas Graham, Mercer Police, in recognition of his services in connection with the prosecution of Alexander Laurie, convicted of a breach of “ The Protection of Animals Act, 1880.”

The sums of £2 and £3 respectively have been awarded by the Railway Department to Chief Detective Charles T. Browne and Detective James J. Tuohy, in recognition of their services in connection with the prosecution of five boys, fined £2 and costs each, or forty-eight hours’ imprisonment, for maliciously breaking railway-carriage windows at Wellington.