Miscellaneous Information.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume IX, Issue 22, 28 October 1885, Page 186

Miscellaneous Information.

Appointments as Constables. Charles Winn, No. 2744. Thomas William Young, No. 2745. Alfred Armstrong Pennefather, No. 2746. Frederick Jackson Keddell, No. 2747. George John Newman Beamish, No. 2748. Yivyan Havelock Gordon, No. 2749. Lancelot Shadwell, No. 2750. John Ingram, No. 2751.

Reversion in Grade. Third-class Sergeant Charles Cooper, No. 344, reverts to the rank of third-class constable, on transfer from the Field Force to the Police Branoh, at his own request.

Resignations. Constable Patrick Fleming, No. 1092. Constable Thomas Huglison, No. 1854. Constable James Harry Schwabe, No. 2043 Constable William McFarlane, No. 2133.

Constable Frederick James Daniel Sams, No. 2590, Constable George Leonard Jones, No. 2725. Discharged on Compensation. Second-class Sergeant John Rooney, No. 17.

Discharged on Reduction of Field Force Constable George Willison, No. 127. Constable John O’Kane, No. 262. Constable John O’Brien, No. 1127. Discharged. Constable Christopher Hammond, No. 812.

Rewards ,

The sums of £lO, £5, and £3 respectively have been awarded from the Reward Fund to Sergeant Edward Morton, Detective Alexander Henderson, and Constable Patrick Nolan, Wellington, Dunedin, and Lake Police, in recognition of their zealous and praiseworthy exertions in connection with the arrest and prosecution of Ah Lee, sentenced to death at the October, 1880, sittings of the Supreme Court, Dunedin, for the murder of Mary Young, at Kyeburn.

The sum of £3 6s. Bd. each has been awarded to Inspector Charles T. Browne, and Detectives William Campbell and Joseph A. McGrath, Wellington Police, by Messrs. Kirkcaldie and Stains, in recognition of their prompt services in connection with the arrest and prosecution of John Cummins, sentenced at the late sittings of the Supreme Court, Wellington, to three years’ penal servitude for stealing a large quantity of silk from Messrs. Kirkcaldie and Stains’s shop.

The sum of £3 10s. each has been awarded to Detectives William L. Chrystal and William Campbell, and the sums of £2 and £1 respectively to Constables Michael O’Brien and John Flaherty, Wellington Police, for the arrest of five deserters from the barque “ Formosa.”

The sum of £8 has been awarded to Constable Edward Lamb, Auckland Police, for the arrest of John Flatley, a deserter from Her Majesty’s ship “Espi&gle.”

The sum of £2 has been awarded from the Reward Fund to Constable John Madden, Wellington Police, in recognition of his services in stopping a runaway horse with cart attached, at considerable personal risk.

The sum of £2 each has been awarded from the Reward Fund to Sergeant Andrew Clarke and Constable Kelso, Auckland Police, in recognition of their services in connection with the prosecution of Mary Maher and Francis Barns, fined 10s. and costs each for sly grog-selling.

The sum of £2 has been awarded by the Marlborough Acclimatisation Society to Constable Michael Joseph O’Donnell, Picton Police, in recognition of his services in connection with the prosecution of persons convicted for breaches of “ The Animals Protection Act, 1880.”

The sum of £2 has been awarded from the Reward Fund to Constable Laurence Carroll, Wellington Police, in recognition of his services in stopping a runaway horse with express attached, in which were two women, two children, and a boy.

The sum of £2 has been awarded by W. H. Levin, Esquire, to Detective William L. Chrystal, Wellington Police, in recognition of his services in connection with the arrest and prosecution of John Thomas Russell, sentenced to two months’ labour for breaking into and stealing from Mr. Levin’s stable, and of Mary McAlpine, alias McGee, sentenced to twenty-eight days’ labour for stealing flowers from his garden.