Miscellaneous Information.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XIII, Issue 4, 13 February 1889, Page 30

Miscellaneous Information.

Resignations. Third-class Sergeant Alexander Ross, No. 345. Constable John McManus, No. 289. Rewards. The sum of £1 has been awarded to Constable Thomas Creeks, Wellington Police, for the arrest of a straggler from Her Majesty’s ship “ Rapid.”

The sum of £4 4s. has been awarded by the New Zealand and South British Insurance Companies to Constable W. H. Ryan, Tolago Bay Police, in recognition of his services in preventing the fire by which Morris Sheehon’s store was destroyed, at Waipawa, on the 29th April last, from extending to the adjoining buildings.

The sum of £2 has been awarded to Constable Thomas D. Brown, Asliurst Police, in recognition of his services in connection with the detection and prosecution of John Searle, of Oakuva, fined £lO and costs for sly grog-selling, and exposing liquors for sale, and the liquors seized, which realised £lB 155., confiscated.

The sum of £1 has been awarded from the Reward Fund to Constable Alexander Hattie, Wellington Police, in recognition of his praiseworthy conduct in stopping a runaway horse with cart attached, on Lambton Quay, at considerable personal risk.

The sum of £1 has been awarded by the Otago Acclimatisation Society to Constable Benjamin Tarrant, Cromwell Police, in recognition of his services in connection with the prosecution of Alexander Webster, fined Is. and costs for killing a native pigeon.

The sum of £3 each has been awarded to Sergeant William Lyons and Constable Edward Lamb, Auckland Police, for the arrest of two stragglers from Her Majesty’s ship “ Rapid.”

The sum of £5 has been awarded by the Anglers’ Society, Christchurch, to Constable Daniel O’Donohue, Kaiapoi Police, in recognition of his services in connection with the detection and prosecution of Henry Featherstone, fined £lO, or, in default, two months’ imprisonment, for illegally netting trout in tiie Waimakariri River; and for the detection and prosecution of Maurice Phillips, fined £5, or, in default, one month’s imprisonment, for having trout in his possession.

The sums of £1 and 10s. have been awarded to Constables Charles Bowden and Timothy McCarthy, Wellington Police,

respectively, by Mr. D. S. Melville, in recognition of their services in preventing the spread of the fire at his premises on the morning of the 7tli instant.

A record of merit has been entered on the conduct-sheet of Constable Charles Slight, for the firmness and decision of character shown by him on the occasion of the arrest of James White, who was armed with a loaded double-barelled gun which he pointed at the constable on the 4th September, ISBB, at Kapakapanui. White has since been sentenced to four years’ penal servitude for horse-stealing. /

Appeals under “ The Employment of Females Act, 1881.” In a case of appeal from the decision of the Justices in Auckland, wherein George Mcßride, tailor, was convicted of allowing a female to remain in a workshop in his factory during part of the time allowed for meals, contrary to the provisions of “ The Employment of Females Act, 1881,” His Honour Judge Gillies held that to justify a conviction for this offence there must be some evidence that the employer actively consented to her being in the room at the time; that it was necessary to prove that he knew she was there and had consented to her being there ; and, as there was no evidence on this point, quashed the conviction. In a second case of appeal under the same Act and by the same person, the conviction was quashed on the ground that the information did not specifically charge the defendant with the employment of a female “ within the meaning of the Act,” and with respect to this case the Crown Solicitor, Auckland, advises that to meet this objection in future the information should be framed in this way: “did allow 7 [or employ, as the case may he ] a certain female, to wit, J.N., being of the age of years or thereabouts, and being a female within the meaning of ‘The Employment of Females and Others Act, 1881,’ ” &c. Similarly, if the information should be in respect of a “ child ” or “ young person,” the information should say, “ being a child [or young person, as the case may he] of the age of years or thereabouts, and being a child [or young person] within the meaning of ‘ The Employment of Females and Others Act, 1881.’ ”