Horse- and Cattle-Stealing.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume IX, Issue 5, 4 March 1885, Page 37

Horse- and Cattle-Stealing.

Stolen during the night of the 26tli January last, from a paddock at Hamilton West, Auckland District, a dark-bay gelding, black points, four years old, about fifteen hands high, star on forehead, near hoof disfigured from wound; the property of J. W. Wright; value £9. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 2nd or 3rd ultimo, from Waikari, Canterbury district, a roan saddle-gelding, aged, sixteen hands high, black points, grey hairs in mane and tail, scar on near hind pastern, branded HT on near shoulder, shod; the property of Richard Truman ; value £5. Identifiable.

(See Police Gazette, 1885, page 27.) George Broad, charged on warrant with having obtained a mare and foal from Roland Jaques, at Masterton, by false pretences, has been arrested by Constable J. Motley, Woodville Police.

(See Police Gazette, 1885, page 4.) The mare, the property of John Bennie, supposed stolen from Aramoho, near Wanganui, has been recovered.

(See Police Gazette, 1885, page 27.)

The iron-grey mare, the property of Christian Kerr, reported stolen from Babylon, Northern Wairoa, has been recovered.

Supposed stolen during the night of the 18th ultimo, from a paddock at Selwyn Terrace, Wellington, a black saddlemare, about fourteen hands high, aged, bang tail, branded like JRJ on near shoulder; the property of James Coutts Crawford; value £4. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 18th ultimo, from Poverty Flat, Wanganui, an iron-grey saddle-mare, aged, about fourteen hands high, branded C over EB on near shoulder, shod all round; the property of Samuel Carrie ; value £9. Identifiable.

(See Police Gazette, 1885, page 27.)

Thomas Sewell, charged on warrant with the larceny as a bailee of a horse, saddle, and bridle, the property of John McMahon, has been arrested by Constable J. Motley, Woodville Police.