Miscellaneous Information.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume VIII, Issue 18, 3 September 1884, Page 152

Miscellaneous Information.

Appointments as Constables. John Jacob Koster, No. 2609. George Cowen, No. 2610. Promotions.

Constable Edmond Villars, No. 75, to be Acting Third-class Sergeant. Third-class Constable Henry H. Carr, No. 2326, specially promoted to second-class constable, in recognition of his meritorious and praiseworthy conduct in connection with the arrest of Daniel Sullivan, sentenced to four years’ penal servitude for forgery, and Thomas Johnston, alias Jerome, charged with forging several telegrams.

Howards

The sums of £l6 and £9 respectively have been awarded by the London and Lancashire Insurance Company to Sergeant-Major Samuel Goodall and Constable George A. Tapp, Hawera Police, in recognition of their services in connection with the prosecution of John Burton, sentenced at the late sittings of the Supreme Court, at New Plymouth, to eighteen months’ labour for attempting to obtain money from the insurance company by false pretences.

The sum of 10s. each has been awarded to Sergeant-Majo Andrew Thompson and Constable John Lynch, Oamaru Police, for the arrest of three seamen for being absent without leave from the ship “ Dunedin.”

The sum of £1 Is. has been awarded to Constable John Bridgman, Oamaru Police, for special services in preventing seamen from deserting from the ship “Dunedin” while at Oamaru.

The sum of £5 has been awarded from the Reward Fund to Sergeant-Major Samuel Moore, Lawrence Police, in recognition of his services in connection with the arrest and prosecution of Stewart McComb, sentenced at the late sittings of the Supreme Court, at Dunedin, to two years’ labour for sheep-stealing.

The sum of £5 has been awarded from the Reward Fund to Acting Sergeant Thomas Livingstone, Dunedin Police, in recognition of his commendable ability in connection with the arrest and prosecution of James McFarlane, alias William Campbell, alias Edward Reynolds, alias Campbell, and James McNeill, sentenced at the late sittings of the Supreme Court, at Dunedin, to three years’ penal servitude and six months’ labour respectively for housebreaking.

The sum of £1 has been awarded to Constable John Bridgman, and the sum of 10s. each to Constables Walter B. Young and Robert William Lemm, Oamaru Police, for the arrest of three seamen for being absent without leave from the ship “ Dunedin.”

The sum of £1 each has been awarded to Constables Henry Porter, John Walton, Frederick Beattie, and William Henry Higgins, Port Chalmers Police, for the arrest of two deserters from the steamer “ Tongariro.”