Miscellaneous Information.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XIII, Issue 5, 27 February 1889, Page 41

Miscellaneous Information.

Appointments as Constables on Transfer from Permanent Militia. John Maclean, No. 536. Tudor Welby Balfour Boddam, No. 537. Henry Beattie, No. 538. Promotion. Second-class Detective Martin Grace, No. 73, to be firstclass detective. Reductions. First-class Detective James Joseph Tuoliy, No. 9, to be third-class detective. Third-class Sergeant William Lyons, No. 269, reduced three steps in the seniority list of his grade. Rewards. The sum of £2 has been awarded from the Reward Fund to Constable William Folley, Hokitika Police, in recognition of his skill and exertions in restoring an apparently drowned man named William Loehore.

The sum of £3 13s. has been awarded from the Reward Fund to Constable Henry Salmon, Masterton Police, in recognition of his meritorious conduct in stopping a runaway horse at imminent risk to life.

The sum of £2 12s. each has been awarded by Mr. Percy Adams, of Nelson, to Detective Maurice O’Connor and Constable John Hawksworth, Christchurch and Nelson Police, in recognition of their tact and energy in recovering a watch stolen from him, and the arrest of the offender. Arthur Gibson, who was arrested for the offence by Detective O’Connor, and was sentenced at the late sittings of the Supreme Court, Nelson, to two years’ labour.

A record of merit has been noted in favour of Constable James Ulysses Browne, for having obtained information which led to the conviction of Robert William, alias George Nunn, and Thomas Gurney Philpot, for having uncustomed tobacco in their possession, at Wanganui, on the 2nd instant.