Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume VIII, Issue 5, 5 March 1884, Page 36

Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

John Fitzgibbons is charged, on warrant issued by the Maketu Bench, with the larceny as a bailee, on or about the 10th ultimo, at Maketu, of 7 yards of blue flannel, 3 yards of black lustre, and a box smoothing-iron; the property of George Thornton; value £1 2s. 6d. Description: Irish, a tailor, forty-one years of age, 5 feet 5 inches high, slight build, sallow complexion, brown hair turning grey, scar on right eyebrow, two Ds on left side, marks of corporal punishment on back; wore black clothes and black hat. It is supposed he has gone to Te Aroha.

Stolen on the 14th ultimo, from a harvest-field at Stoke, Canterbury, a double-cased silver lever hunting - watch, “ Rotherham ” stamped on inside of case, No. 7408, steel guard attached, value £7; a black-cloth coat, a grey-tweed vest, and a new guernsey jacket; value £1 10s.; the property of Patrick O’Brien. Identifiable except guernsey. Suspicion attached to William Brown, English, a shearer and labourer, about fifty-two years of age, about 5 feet 4 inches high, dark beard whiskers and moustache turning grey; wore light clothes ; carried a blue-blanket swag.

Stolen during the night of the 9th ultimo, at Tapanui, a steel-wire cage with wooden bottom, containing a green-and-red paroquet; the bird can say “ Good morning,” and “ How do this morning;” the property of Mee Chang; value £2. Identifiable.

(See Police Gazette, 1884, page 28.) The wagon-cover, the property of Janies Murphy, reported stolen at Hawera, has been recovered.

(See Police Gazette, 1884, page 29.)

The watch, &c., the property of George Edmund Wright, reported stolen from a harvest-field at Brunswick Line, near Wanganui, have been recovered. Suspicion no longer attaches to John Jones.

Stolen on the 15th ultimo, from the door of the residence of George Tapper, Duke Street, Dunedin, a neaiiy-new cocoanut door-mat, 3J by 2 feet; value 17s. Identifiable.

Stolen on the Bth or 9th ultimo, from a shed at Wae-

rengaahika, Poverty Bay, four bags of grass-seed containing 5 bushels each, new bags branded C ; the property of Robert Colebrook ; value £5. Bags identifiable.

(See Police Gazette , 1884, page 8.) The bridle reported stolen from the stable of Stroud Baraclough, at Patea, has been recovered.

Stolen on the 4th ultimo, from the ladies’ waiting-room at the Christchurch Railway-station, a ladies’ black-and-white square wickerwork basket with two handles, containing a pair of black-kid gloves, two Home letters, a letter addressed “ Mrs. Duncan, Papanui Road,” two sets of beads, one black and one brown, with crosses thereon, a needlebook containing some black hair, some small tin photographs, and a tooth-brush; the property of Margaret Hogan. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 31st December last, at East Belt, Christchurch, a large door-key, and a cocoanut door-mat about 3 by 2 feet; the property of John Goodman; value 12s. 6d. Identifiable.

Stolen during the night of the 15th ultimo, from Raukapuka Station, Geraldine, a large sheep-dog, smooth black haii’, a white spot on breast, one of fore paws white except a few black hairs, short nose, a small old scar-mark on bridge, had on a registration collar for last year, answers to the name “Sharp;” and a long dog-chain; the property of William Postlethwaite ; value £lO. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 7th ultimo, from the pavilion at the Basin Reserve, Wellington, a silver Waltham keyless huntingwatch, No. 1766145, a silver albert chain, links about an inch long with a twist in each, and a small silver compass; the property of J. P. Kennedy ; value £8 10s. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 22nd or 23rd ultimo, from a cabin on board the steamer “ British Queen,” at Wellington, or between there and Lyttelton, two sovereigns, 235. in silver, ten 10cent pieces, and two Brazilian coins; the property of John Den. Foreign coins identifiable. Suspicion attached to a man only known as Bob, Scotch, a cook, about twenty-six years of age, about 5 feet 6 inches high, slight build, dark hair and eyes, clean-shaved except moustache. He is supposed to be in Wellington.

Stolen between the 11th and 18th ultimo, from a box in the garden of the Wallacetown Junction Hotel, near Invercargill, two male ferrets, one dark and tan and the other light yellow, and a light yellow female ferret; the property of John Mclntosh; value £2. Identification doubtful.

Stolen between the 15th and 17th ultimo, from a box on board the steamer “ Hawea,” between Nelson and Onehunga, a gold necklet, rope-pattern, a gold oval locket, about 2 by 1£ inches, chased on back, set with a ring of pearls with two rubies in centre; the property of Agnes Wybar; value £6. Identifiable.

Stolen between the Ist and 3rd ultimo, from an unoccupied house at Auckland, about 20 lb. of lead piping, 1 inch in diameter; an old kauri table, by 2£ feet; tw'o handsewing machines, maker’s names not known; and an old tin tea-kettle; the property of Henry Keesing; value £7. Identifiable except piping.

Stolen on the 20th ultimo, from the hall of the Albany Street School, Dunedin, a ladies’ white-straw hat, light trimming and flower; the property of Margaret Campbell; value 7s. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 27th or 28th ultimo, from a boathouse at Jetty Street Wharf, Dunedin, a smoothing-plane, three chisels, a pair of pincers, a spokeshave, a bevel, and a pair of tinkers’ snips, MW marked on some of them ; the property of Mark Webb ; value £l. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 25th ultimo, from a harvest-field at Deborah, near Oamaru, a silver lever hunting-watch, maker Ehrhardt, London, No. 94964; a silver albert guard, New-gate-link pattern; and a meerschaum pipe with crooked stem and amber mouthpiece, a small chip off end of amber; the property of Robert Dunn ; value £5 10s. Identifiable.