Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume VIII, Issue 2, 23 January 1884, Page 9

Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

(See Police Gazette , 1883, pages 66, 76, and 149.)

Charles S. McGregor, charged on warrant with the larceny as a bailee of £BO, the property of John Coulam : It is believed that this offender was married at Saint Andrew’s Manse, Christchurch, on the 27th ultimo to Eliza Jehkinson, of Port Molyneux.

Stolen on the sth or 6th instant, from on board the cutter “ Hero,” at Waterloo Quay, Wellington, a pair of blue blankets about 6 feet by 51 feet, considerably worn, two black stripes in centre, ends hemmed with red worsted partly ripped, a small tear near centre of one, value 10s.; a doublebreasted white-flannel singlet, home-made, value 6s. ; and a very old red-white-and-blue Crimean shirt, sleeves cut off at elbows, value Is. 6d.; the property of John Campbell. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to a man known as Cockney, English, about twenty-seven years of age, 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, medium build, clean-shaved except small brown moustache. He is said to be employed as a coaltrimmer on the steamer “ Takapuna.”

Stolen on the 26tb ultimo, at Kereta, near Coromandel, a small saddle, nearly new, near knee-pad slightly broken, a hole in off-side of facing; the property of James Wilson. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 31st ultimo or Ist instant, from the verandah of the house of P. H. Foote, Hardy Street, Nelson, a square wire bird-cage with sloped top, containing a yellow canary, the nail of one of the claws turned upwards; value £1 10s. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 30th ultimo, at Christchurch, an English fox-terrier dog, about eighteen months old, white with a black spot on rump just over root of tail, very short tail carried erect, a bluish-black spot on left ear, ears not cropped, answers to the name of “ Turk,” very friendly and alert in his movements; the property of Henry Cook Lanauze. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 9th or 10th instant, from a shed at St. Andrew Street, Dunedin, an English pigskin saddle, left knee-pad and pommel repaired, round stirrup-irons and leather girth; the property of Albert Dornwell; value £2. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 2nd or 3rd instant, from the railway platform at the Bluff or Invercargill, a cooked pork ham., value 10s.; a box containing five or six dozen lemonade bottles, value about 165.; and a tomahawk with claw, the property of Robert Riordan, value 3s. 6d. Tomahawk identifiable.

Stolen on the 10th or 11th instant, from the clothes-line of Joseph Samuel, Serpentine Avenue, Dunedin, a pair of dark-yellow tweed trousers and two towels; value 15s. Trousers identifiable.

Stolen on the 27th or 28th ultimo, from the Queen’s Wharf, Auckland, seven bags of maize ; the property of George S. Gommell; value £4 10s.

Stolen on the 30th or 31st ultimo, from the stable of W. L. Mitchell, Mount Albert, near Auckland, a new English hogskin saddle, silver-plated stirrup-irons, and a now brownfelt saddlecloth trimmed with brown leather ; value £8 Bs. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 22nd or 23rd ultimo, from the yard of Duncan Robertson, at Maketu, Auckland, an 18-gallon cask of beer, one end painted blue, and marked “ Wrigley If Tauranga,” with white paint; value £4 4s. Identifiable. Maoris suspected. The cask has since been found nearly empty concealed in a clump of briars near the hotel.

Stolen on the 26th ultimo, from off a horse at Oxford, Auckland, an old colonial-made stock-saddle, inner flaps cut off square, about 6 inches cut off stirrup-leathers, round three-bar silver stirrup-irons, a bridle with red forelicad-band

and silver bit, and a nearly-now breastplate ; the property of John Fawcett; value £5. Identifiable.

Stolen between the 22nd and 24tli ultimo, from the workshop of Frederick Bloomfield, Upper Queen Street, Auckland, two pictures of Now Zealand scenery, 14 by 12 inches, gilt moulding frames, value £2 ; and a glazier’s diamond, value £l. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 27tli or 28th ultimo, at Waikaia, Otago, a brindlo sheep slut with a white spot at back of right ear, two months old; the property of Duncan Gillanders; value £3. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 18th instant, from the clothes-line of Margaret Stables, at Mornington, near Dunedin, a pair of men’s white cotton drawers, two blue-striped cotton shirts, a white cotton singlet, three pairs of socks with black stripes, and a red pockethandkerchief, AWS marked on one of corners ; value £1 Bs. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 15th instant, from the front door of the residence of Isabella Scoullar, Arthur Street, Dunedin, two green earthenware vases, 15 inches high, each containing a geranium; value 17s. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 16th or 17th instant, on board the steamer “ Hawea,” between Wellington and Lyttelton, an oldfashioned long green purse, square at one end and round at the other, covered with steel beads, containing £lO 10s. in gold, principally half-sovereigns; tlio property of Fanny Nightingale. Purse identifiable.

Stolen between the Bth and 10th instant, from a shed at Outram, a flitch of bacon, about 601 b. weight; the property of Damiano Vannini; value £2 10s. Identifiable.

Stolen on the Ist instant, at the Park Reserve, Invercargill, a small black purse containing seven £1 notes, a halfsovereign, and two men’s photographs ; the property of John McFadden. Purse identifiable.

Stolen on the 4th or sth instant, from the slaughterhouse of William McLeod, at Waimate, Canterbury, the carcass of a pig, about 701 b., value £2 ; a nearly-new largo siding-knife, and two other butchers’ knives, considerably worn and about 2 inches shorter than the siding-knife, value 9s. Knives identifiable.