Miscellaneous Information.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume X, Issue 16, 4 August 1886, Page 145

Miscellaneous Information.

Appointments as Constables. William Joseph Murphy, No. 2823. John Andrew Easton, No. 2824. Charles James Knight, No. 2825. Charles Healy Meehan, No. 2826. George Joseph Harper, No. 2827. Martin Dolan, No. 2828. Patrick Gough, No. 2829.

Reversions in Grade

Second-class Sergeant John Dunne, No. 110, reverts to the rank of third-class constable on transfer from the Field Force Branch to the Police Branch, at his own request.

Second-class Sergeant Michael John Dwyer, No. 376, Field Force Branch, reverts to the rank of first-class constable in the same branch, at his own request.

Resignations. Police Brandi. Constable James Hugh Phillips, No. 2686.

Artillery Branch. Constable Frederick Augustus Moore, No. 1373

Field Force Branch. Constable William John Woods, No. 2659. Constable Denis McKeown, No. 2764.

Dismissal. Torpedo Corps. Constable Henry McGuire, No. 2795.

Rewards .

The sum of £3 has been awarded to Constable William Hilliard, Fairlie Creek Police, in recognition of the zeal and energy shown by him in connection with the prosecution of James Capel, licensee of the Opawa Hotel, Albury, fined £2O for selling liquor to a person already in a state of intoxication ; also for the prosecution of four other licensed publicans, fined £5 each for breaches of the Licensing Act.

A greenstone cross, mounted with gold, has been awarded by Mr. P. A. Gowring, of the Colonial Bank, to Sergeant William McLeod, Queenstown Police, in recognition of the expeditious manner in which he organized a search-party when it was supposed that Mr. Gowring was lost in the ranges.

The sum of £l6 has been awarded to Constable Patrick Leahy Harnett, Lower Hutt Police, for the arrest of two deserters from Her Majesty’s ship “ Nelson.”

The sums of £5 and £3 respectively have been awarded to Detective William Campbell and Constable Henry Salmon, Wellington Police, for the arrest of a deserter from Her Majesty’s ship “ Nelspn,”