Offences Not Otherwise Described.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume IX, Issue 5, 4 March 1885, Page 35

Offences Not Otherwise Described.

Between the 14th and 16th ultimo, at the Bowen Pieri Port Chalmers, two tarpaulins, the property of the Government, were maliciously cut and damaged to the extent of £4.

(See Police Gazette, 1885, page 17.)

The warrant issued by the Auckland Bench for the arrest of Harry Austin Rovcll, for uttering a forged promissory-note to Samuel Cohen, has been cancelled.

(See Police Gazette, 1885, page 25.)

Richard Hackett, charged on warrant with having uttered a forged cheque to Frederick Gaudin, at Hamilton East, has been arrested by Constable Murray, Hamilton Police, and committed for trial.

Michael Skerry is charged, on warrant issued by the Auckland Bench, with having, on the 14th January last, at Dargavillc, obtained £2 from William Joseph Ralph by false pretences. Description: Irish, a labourer, about fifty-six years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, slight build, sallow complexion, grey hair beard whiskers and moustache ; dressed in blue-serge suit and black hard felt hat; has been in the 40th Regiment, and served in the Maori war.

(See Police Gazette, 1885, page 25.)

Edwin Jarvis, charged on warrant with embezzling money, the property of Henry Robert Clark, has been arrested by Detective Terence O’Brien, Oamaru Police, and remanded to Dunedin.

Between G p.m. on the 11th and 10 a.m. on the 12th ultimo a number of potato-stalks were maliciously pulled out of the ground in the garden of David Milne, at Wyndham.

(See Police Gazette, 1882, pages 73 and 91.) John Christopher Cuff, charged on warrant with uttering a forged promissory-note for £llO 17s. to John Orson McArdell, at Invercargill, was arrested at Waiau, on the 25th ultimo, but he escaped from the custody of Thomas Whitty, at Waiau, on the following morning. He was employed at the Upper Waiau Ferry Hotel for about two years, and went under the name of Robert Taylor. He was in Westland before coming to Waiau, and may try to get back there across the ranges.