Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume IX, Issue 16, 5 August 1885, Page 128

Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

Stolen on the 22nd or 23rd ultimo, from the clothes-line of Elizabeth Scroggie, at Geraldine, a sheet and a towel, marked “ E. Y. S. Eckford,” and a white-damask tablecloth, not marked, value £l. Sheet and towel identifiable.

Stolen between the 7th and 14th ultimo, from Bishop’s Grove, Leith Yalley, Dunedin, a coil of barbed wire, about 1041 b. weight, “N C Dunedin 104” marked on frame; the property of the Right Rev. Bishop Neville ; value £1 14s.

Stolen about the 16th February last, at Earori, near Wellington, a 3-gallon galvanized-iron bucket, value 45.; and on the 28th June last an iron crowbar, about 3£ feet long, one of ends pointed like a chisel, value 55.; the property of William Standen. Identifiable.

Stolen about the 22nd June last, at Waihao Downs Station, near Waimate, a handsaw, a hammer, a tomahawk, and a pair of shears for cutting tin, all branded WAIHAO DOWNS on handle, several dozen dahlia-plants, 31b. or 4lb. of scullery parsley-roots, and a small quantity of mixed flower- and lettuce-seeds; the property of John Douglas; value £4 10s. Tools identifiable. Suspicion attached to James Alexander, who was employed as gardener on the station. Description: Scotch, about forty years of age, 5 feet G inches high, medium build, fresh complexion, reddish hair, full red beard whiskers and moustache. He went to Dunedin.

Stolen between 6 p.m. on the 9th and 10 a.m. on the 11th ultimo, from the railway-siding at Mill Road, near Invercargill, six pigskins and a case full of tallow ; the property of Alexander Darling ; value £6 4s. sd. Tallow not identifiable ; identification of pigskins doubtful.

Stolen on the 30th ultimo, in the Exhibition Buildings, Wellington, six balls of twine; the property of Hall, Thorpe, and Co.; value 6s. Identifiable.

Stolen between the 10th and 19th ultimo, from a goodscase on board the steamer “ Penguin,” between Dunedin and Picton, or in the railway goods-shed, Picton, two pairs of lace-up boots, Derby pattern, two rows of nails in soles, with a row of brass tacks between them, and a double row of brass tacks in shanks, two rows of stitching round sides, one pair differs in size, the right boot being size 7, and the left size 9; the property of Edward Dew Carlton; value £1 17s. Identifiable.

(See Police Gazette, 1885, page 121.) The dog, the property of Samuel M. Dalgleish, reported stolen at Waikari, near Dunedin, has been recovered.

Stolen between the 4th and 13th ultimo, from a rope-shed in Russell Street, Caversham, 14 feet of machinery-belting, 1J inches wide, made of indiarubber and canvas, and laced with copper-wire; the property of Andrew Cosgrove; value 10s. Identifiable.

Stolen on the Btli ultimo, from the hall of the Borough Council Chambers, Wanganui, a double-breasted brown-check-tweed overcoat, with purple and magenta threads through material, wliite-and-brown-check lining, long, opening at back, with four buttons ; the property of James Laird; value £5. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 17th ultimo, from the office of the Registrar of Marriages, Foxton, the register of marriages book, 14 inches long, 9 inches broad, and £ inch thick, marblepattern cover with red back; the property of Samuel Marsden Baker. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 11th ultimo, from the cart of John Elder, at Timaru, a single-breasted dark - brown - cloth overcoat, lined with black material, black-velvet collar, two sidepockets, one of sleeves torn at elbow, and a pair of boys’ lace-up boots, partly worn, size 3 or 4; value £1 17s. 6d. Identifiable.

Supposed stolen on the 20th June last, from the railwaystation at Hastings or Napier, a corn-sack addressed to Kinross and Co., Napier, containing a code of nautical flags consisting of nineteen, a house-flag of the firm of Shaw, Savill, and Co., and a flag of which no description can be obtained; all nearly new; the property of Messrs. Kinross and Co.; value £lB. Identifiable. The bag may have been put by mistake on board the steamer “ Wairarapa” or the steamer “ Manapouri,” which were at Napier on that day.

Stolen between the 15th and 20th ultimo, at Tataraimaka, Taranaki District, a coil of barbed wire about 1501 b. weight; the property of Arthur Standish; value £2 7s. Identification doubtful.

Stolen on the 21st or 22nd ultimo, from the clothes-line of Hannah O’Rielly, at Ross, a white-calico petticoat, a chemise, a nightgown, and four linen pocket-handkerchiefs; value £1 12s. Petticoat only identifiable.