Miscellaneous Information.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XII, Issue 6, 14 March 1888, Page 54

Miscellaneous Information.

Appointment as Constable on Transfer from Permanent Militia. Charles Grey, No. 518. Rewards. The sum of £2 10s. has been awarded by the Customs Department to Constable George L. Walker, Wellington Police, in recognition of his services in connection with the arrest and prosecution of Charles Bear, fined £7 165., or, in default of payment, twenty-eight days’ labour, for smuggling BMb. of tobacco. The sum of £2 has been awarded to Sergeant Nicholas Kiely, Auckland Police, for the arrest of two stragglers from Her Majesty’s ships “ Diamond ” and “ Opal.” The sum of £3 each has been awarded to Constables Douglas Gordon and Charles Hogg, Whangarei and Kamo Police, in recognition of their services in connection with the

detection and prosecution of Mrs. Jeffery Hunter, Charles Saunders, and Frederick Thomas Aley, fined £2O, £ls, and £lO respectively, and costs, for sly grog-selling.

Thf. sum of £2 each has been awarded to Constables Luke McDonnell and Edward Mackay, Auckland Police, for the arrest of four stragglers from Her Majesty’s ship “ Nelson.”

The sum of £1 has been awarded to Constable J. Abrams, Auckland Police, for the arrest of a straggler from Her Majesty’s ship “ Swinger.”

The sum of £3 has been awarded from the Reward Fund to Constable Thomas Griffith, Lumsden Police, in recognition of the courage displayed by him in disarming and arresting Martin Johnson for presenting a double-barrelled loaded gun at him when in the execution of his duty. Johnson was sentenced to twelve months’ labour for this offence.

The sum of £1 each has been awarded to Sergeant Nicholas Kiely and Constables Edward Lamb and W. Kelly, Auckland Police, for the arrest of Frederick Vincent, a deserter from Her Majesty’s ship “ Rapid.”

The sum of £3 each has been awarded to Constable J. W. Moar and Native Constable Peri Raiti, Mangonui Police, in recognition of the tact displayed by them in connection with the prosecution of Joseph Wilkinson, of Wliangape, fined £26 and costs on three charges of sly grog-selling; and of Thomas Goulton, of Kaeo, and James Berghan, of Ahipara, fined £2O and costs and £1 and costs, respectively, for sly grog-selling. The sum of £3 has also been awarded to Constable Moar in recognition of his services in connection with the prosecution of Patrick Shine, of Te Kao, fined £3O and costs for sly grog-selling.

The sum cf £5 has been awarded to Sergeant Hugh Nickle, Bluff Police, for the arrest of Ah Chow, charged with a breach of “ The Chinese Immigrants Act, 1881.”

The sum of £1 has been awarded from the Reward Fund to Constable John Madden, Wellington Police, in recognition of his plucky conduct in stopping a runaway horse, with express wagon attached, at great personal risk. The sum of £1 has been awarded by the Wellington Acclimatisation Society to Sergeant-Major P. T. Fair, Wellington Police, for the detection and prosecution of John Moxham, fined £1 and costs for shooting a hare during close season.

The sum of £1 has also been awarded by the Wellington Acclimatisation Society to Constable Laurence Carroll, Wellington Police, for the detection and prosecution of Sarah Rowberry, fined £2 and costs for selling game without being licensed.

The sum of £3 has been awarded to Constable William Fouhy, Wyndham Police, in recognition of the tact evinced by him in connection with the prosecution of Peter Myers, fined £2O and costs for sly grog-selling.

Erratum. — Robert Kent, sentenced to three years’ penal servitude at the Supreme Court, Christchurch, on the 9th of January last, for receiving stolen property, was arrested by Detective Robert Neill, and not by Detective Maurice O’Connor, as notified in Gazette of the 15tli ultimo, page 36.

The employment of children under eighteen years of age at any itinerant profession being a misdemeanour under Italian laws, the Consul of that country is desirous of preventing Italian boys being brought to sing and play in the streets, and, with a view to the punishment of the employers, who invariably go home every three or four years, ho desires to obtain the names, ages, and places of birth of Italian children so employed, as also of their employers. A report containing these particulars should in each case be forwarded to the Commissioners’ office without delay.