Miscellaneous Information.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume X, Issue 13, 23 June 1886, Page 118

Miscellaneous Information.

Appointment as Engineer, Torpedo Corps. Alexander Milne, No. 2816.

Appointments as Constables. Charles Robert Godwin Gibson, No. 2804 William Matheson, No. 2805. Hugh McKenzie, No. 2806. Henry Ernest Felton, No. 2807. John Hubert Edward Daunt, No. 2808. Francis Philip Moorhouse, No. 2809. Henry Steen, No. 2810. George Ashby, No. 2811. Lucius Henry Spooner, No. 2812. George Ernest Simeon, No. 2813. John Coughlan, No. 2814. William Hope Miller, No. 2815.

Promotion.

Artillery Branch : Third-class Constable Alfred Withers, No. 2028, to be first-class gunner and actingbombardier.

Resignations. Artillery Branch. Constable Patrick Shanahan, No. 742. Constable John Arthur Day, No. 2712.

Field Force Branch. Constable Otto Magnus Theodore von Porat, No. 1190. Constable William Renton, No. 2128. Constable Joseph Bryan, No. 2652. Constable Timothy Moloney, No. 2655. Constable Frederick William Jones, No. 2667. Constable Frederic Davy, No. 2714.

Rewards

The sum of £1 has been awarded to Detective Austin Kirby, Timaru Police, by Mr. Fulbert Archer, for the recovery of a fur cape lost by his daughter.

The sum of £5 ss. has been awarded by the Victoria Insurance Company to Detective Patrick Quinn, Hokitika Police, in recognition of his services in connection with the prosecution of John Hughes and John Moloney, committed for trial for conspiring to defraud insurance companies.

The sum of £5 has been awarded by the Taranaki Acclimatisation Society to Constable W. H. Ryan, New Plymouth Police, in recognition of his services in connection with the prosecution of Langstoff, convicted for a breach of “ The Animals Protection Act, 1880.”

The sums of £5, £4, and £2 respectively have been awarded from the Reward Fund to Constables Patrick Bowman, Charles L. Daubney, and Joseph West, Lawrence Police, in recognition of their services in connection with the prosecution of certain Chinese, fined £36 and costs for breaches of the Gaming and Lotteries Act.

The sum of £5 has been awarded by the Colonial Insurance Company to Detective Terence O’Brien, Oamaru Police, in appreciation of his services in connection with the prosecution of Johanna Croft, committed for trial for arson. She was acquitted of the charge at the March sittings of the Supreme Court, Oamaru.