Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume VII, Issue 13, 27 June 1883, Page 111

Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

Stolen on the 2nd instant, at Waihi, Geraldine Hoad, a tarpaulin, made of No. 2 merchant-navy canvas, 22 by 24 feet, nearly new, but weather-stained in places, ropes in eylet-holes on one side and at one end ; the.property of Robert Rae ; value £6. Identifiable.

Stolen between the sth and 7th instant, from the front of the shop of Samuel Swaine, High Street, Christchurch, about 40 yards of black velveteen, about 2 feet wide ; value £4. Identification doubtful.

Stolen on the sth or 6th instant, from Duncan Road, South Dunedin, two sheets of new corrugated iron, 7 feet long, 3 feet 3 inches wide; two red-pine boards, 14 feet long, 8 inches wide, and 1 inch thick; and several pieces of scantling; the property of Messrs Cole and Springer ; value 19s.

Stolen about the 18th ultimo, from an outhouse in Duke Street, Cambridge, a carpenters’ black-and-white kit, containing four American bits, sizes, £, and £ inch ; a 2-foot rule, a keyhole screw with iron handle, a gauge, two spokeshaves, and a number of English bits, various sizes ; the property of William Barelmann ; value £2 10s. Kit identifiable.

Stolen during the night of the Bth instant, from the clothesline of Ellen Connell, Thames Street, Oarnaru, six calico pillowslips marked EC, four ladies’ nightgowns, four paira of ladies’ drawers, and two girls’ white-muslin pinafores; value £1 10s. Pillowslips identifiable.

Stolen on the 3rd instant, from the Wesleyan Chapel, Durham Street, Christchurch, a single-breasted grey-tweed overcoat, with small yellow-and-red spots in material, strap at back, an outside left bi*east-poeket., and two hip-pockets, an inside right breast-pocket, hook and eye at collar (eye made of thread), a pair of black-kid riding gloves with fur in one of pockets; the property of William Henry Seed; value £3 7s. fid. Identifiable.

Stolen during the night of the 13th instant, from the garden of Christopher Somerville, Taranaki Street, Wellington, two camellia plants, one red, the other white ; value £1 10s.

Stolen on the 13th instant, from the clothes-line of George Townsend, at Masterton, a new twill-calico sheet and two new brown-holiand tablecloths; value £1 2s. Identification doubtful.

Stolen on the 18th ultimo, from the Immigration Depot, Addington, two sheets, two blue blankets joined together, a canvas bag containing a black- sergo dress, a chemise, a carpet slipper, a hair-brush, a large and small comb, a lilac dressingcap, two shoe-brushes, a tin of blacking, a towel, a dark marone wrapper, a print apron, a pair of stockings, a knitted drab cap marked “British Queen ” in marone letters, a piece of crocheting, diamond-pattern ; six knitting needles, sundry scraps of cotton, books, work box requisites, &e. ; all sewn up in a ship counterpane, and labelled “Goodwin,” most of the linen

marked “ R. Goodwin ; ” the property of Rebecca Goodwin 5 value £3. Identifiable. The property may have been taken by immigrants by the “British Queen.”

Stolen on the 14th or loth instant, from the clothes-line of Isabella Knight, Eve Street, Invercargill, a ladies’ nightdress, two chemi-es, a girls’ chemise, two pairs of ladies’ drawers, four or five common pocket handkerchiefs, and two pairs of coloured stockings ; value £1 ss. Some of articles identifiable.

Supposed stolen on the 12th ultimo, from a railway-car-riage between Outram and Milton, a leather portmanteau, about 2 feet long locked and buckled, a leather label attached to handle, addressed “ Rev. T. L. Stanley, Milton,” containing a suit of dark clothes suitable for a clergyman, an oil-colour paint-box, a water-colour paint-box, a sketch-book, and various other articles ; the property of the Rev. T. L. Stanley ; value £ls. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 21st instant, from George Street Wharf, Port Chalmers, a case of oranges, “D. West” marked with black paint on one of sides ; the property of the Union Steamship Company ; value Bs. 6d. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 18th or 19th instant, from the railway-line near Methven, a bag of wheat, bag branded broad-arrow and D conjoined and 593 over Sl2O ; the property of the Government. Identifiable.