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Offences Not Otherwise Described.

Alexander Murray is charged, on warrant issued by the Christchurch Bench, with having, on the 25th ultimo, at Christchurch, forged a cheque for £4 10s. on the Bank of Australasia, Christchurch, which ho uttered to James Wallace. Description: Supposed English, about thirty-five years of age, about 5 feet 7 inches high, stout build, fresh complexion, dark hair, dark-brown beard, whiskers and moustache, has a red lump about the size of a hen’s egg on his neck behind his left ear; wore a dark suit of clothes and soft black-felt hat. Identifiable. Supposed to have gone North by the steamship “ Mawhera” on the 25th ultimo.

A man, name unknown, is charged with having indecently assaulted Kate Humphrey, aged seven years and eleven months, at Kawai Street, Nelson, on the 21st ultimo. Description : About thirty years of age, 5 feet 8 or 10 inches high, full face, dark hair, dark-brown beard, whiskers and moustache; wore dark-brown clothes, light-coloured round hat with flat top and rim turned up at the side. Identifiable.

Between 6 and 8 p.m. on the 23rd ultimo five panes of glass in the buildings of the Otago Pastoral and Agricultural Association, Tahuna Park, St. Kilda, near Dunedin, were maliciously broken ; value 12s. 6d. The taps of the watertanks were also turned on, and a large quantity of water wasted.

Between 2 and 4 a.m. on the 25th ultimo the walls of the Salvation Army Barrack, Oamaru, were smeared with tar, and damaged to the extent of 10s.

At 4.47 p.m. on the 29th ultimo, at Frederick Street, Dunedin, a stone was maliciously thrown at the passenger train from Port Chalmers to Dunedin, while in motion, by which a window in one of the first-class carriages, the property of the Government, was broken.

Between April last and the 21st ultimo, at Mangatete, near Mongonui, the anchor brand on a red-heifer calf, the property of Ernest William Davis Matthews, w r as defaced by branding UJ over it, contrary to “ The Brands and Branding Act, 1880.”

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Bibliographic details

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume VIII, Issue 25, 10 December 1884, Page 211

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Offences Not Otherwise Described. New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume VIII, Issue 25, 10 December 1884, Page 211

Offences Not Otherwise Described. New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume VIII, Issue 25, 10 December 1884, Page 211