Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume X, Issue 11, 26 May 1886, Page 97

Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

(See Police Gazette, 1886, page 68.)

Charles Bereseord, alias Musgrove, charged on warrant with stealing a dog from Stoney Creek, the property of Thomas Carroll, left Dunedin on the 26th ultimo by the barque “Kilbrannan” for Calcutta, under the name of Francis Marshall.

Stolen on the 13th instant, at Pukerua, Wellington District, an open-face silver lever chronograph watch, makers Steward, Dawson, and Co., No. 102592; the property of Alexander Cock; value £5 15s. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to Peter Hansen. (For his description, &c., see Police Gazette, 1885, page 143.) Mr. Cock offers a reward of £2 for the recovery of the watch.

Stolen on the 15th or 16th instant, from the clothes-line of Elizabeth Kerr, King Street, Dunedin, five bleached twillcalico sheets, size 6ft. by three of them are nearly new and the others much worn ; value £1 ss. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 7th instant, from the yard of Baker Brothers, Wakanui Boad, Ashburton, a canvas horse-cover, about half worn, torn and patched at wither; the property of Peter Jollie ; value 10s.

Stolen on the 12th ultimo, from the wagon of Charles Diamond, at Cardrona, a large wagon-whip ; value £1 10s. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 10th instant, from off the footpath in McLaggan Street, Dunedin, a piece of black-and-red carpet containing a soldering-iron, a half-round rasp 14in. long, a file 14in. long, a pair of pliers, a cold-chisel, and a shavehook ; the property of Charles Farrell; value 10s. Identifiable.

Stolen about the 3rd instant, from out of a cart at Gore, a large darlc-tweed mackintosh overcoat, a hole under one of arm-pits, three buttons off front; the property of Michael Lyttelton; value £l. Identifiable.

Stolen between the 30th November last and the 22nd ultimo, at Wairio, Southland District, a three-horse set of harrows in four squares joined togther with iron hooks, a metal plate on top with “ Beid and Gray ” engraved thereon, and a wooden swing-bar, about Bft. long, with a hook at each end and at centre; the property of Samuel McLees; value £7.

Stolen on the 6th or 7th instant, from a shed at Te Ngamu, near Opunake, a double-barrel muzzle-loading gun, well finished, makers Beilly and Co., London, No. 16736 ; the property of William McLeod ; value £6. identifiable.

Supposed stolen about 10 p.m. on the sth instant, from off a horse at Makaraka, Poverty Bay, a leather bag containing a book, about lOin. by 4in., bound in black-glazed cloth, containing accounts of milk supplied, and the following orders drawn on the New Zealand Land and Mortgage Agency Company, and signed by H. J. Walker and John Allen, viz.: Ackroyd, £5 6s. 9d; Boyd and" Brown, £5; Thomas Caldwell, £25 14s. 2d. ; Thomas O’Donnell, £6 13s. 4d. ; Bobert Shelwall, £l3 14s. 6d.; L. Dunne, £6 17s. 6d.; John Allen, £3 16s. sd. ; Bichard Boyd, £3 7s. 4d.; S. Scraggs, £lB 11s. Bd.; J. J. Walker, £lB 2s. 9d.; A. Beeves, £2 ss. 9d. ; S. B. Hair, £l3 16s. 4d.; W. Morrice, £4 165.; Bobert Bryson, £5 16s. 2d.; Bobert Atkins, £l7 19s. 5d. ; George Johnston, £4 165.; D. Longher, £3l 10s. 2d.; W. S. Greeve, £1 13s. 3d.; William Batty, £5 9s. Bd.; sundry accounts, £3 9s. 4d.; M. A. Brown, £ll6s. ; C. Cox, £lO 16s. Bd.; W. C. Walsh, £ll 55.; John Baldwin, £3 12s. 6d.: Trimmer and Harding, £5 Bs.; Coppin, £1 6s. 4d.; John Allen, £7 ; C.Cuff, £1 ; James O’Donnell, £5 ; and Secretary, petty cash, £10; the property of David Murchie, Secretary to the Cook County Dairy Factory, Gisborne.

Stolen on the sth or 6th instant, from the wagon of Peter Jollie, in the yard of Baker Brothers, Wakanui Boad, Ashburton, an old harness-bridle with blinkers, value ss; and an old pair of set straps, value 10s. Bridle not identifiable ; identification of set straps doubtful.

Stolen on the 22nd March last, from the railway-plat-form, Wairio, Southland District, a draught bridle with blinkers, two brass rings on each blinker, buckles painted black, two rings in centre of bit; the property of James Lockett; value 16s. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 4th or sth instant, from the clothes-line of David Bamsay, Esk Street, Invercargill, two white shirts, a pair of Scotch pants, a pair of cotton pants, a boys’ Crimean shirt, five pillowcases, and three bath-towels; value £2. Identifiable.

Stolen on the 22nd or 23rd March last, from the railwaysiding, at Pomahaka, near Tapanui, two bales of corn-sacks, 465. branded on covering; the property of John G. Lang; value £l3 15s.

Stolen on the 11th or 12th instant, at Patea, an oblong zinc tub, a cut at one end under handle ; the property of William Brown ; value 4s. Identifiable.