Horse- and Cattle-stealing.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XIII, Issue 10, 8 May 1889, Page 87

Horse- and Cattle-stealing.

Stolen between the 25th January last and the 22nd ultimo, from Helsmlea Farm, Rakaia, seventy Lincoln crossbred lambs with a round hole punched in both ears; the property of David Gordon Holmes ; value about 10s. each. Identifiable.

(See Police Gazette, 1889, page 76.)

The two mares, the property of Charles H. Tomlinson, supposed stolen from Palmerston North, have been recovered ; they were not stolen.

(See Police Gazette, 1889, page 76.)

The horse and bridle, the property of Martin Petersen, stolen from the yard of the Greenmeadows Hotel, Taradale, have been recovered. The saddle stolen at the same time has not been recovered.

(See Police Gazette, 1889, page 11.) The gelding, the property of Charles Higgins, supposed stolen from a paddock at Wanganui, has been recovered.

Supposed stolen on the 13th or 14th ultimo, from a paddock at Sockburn, Canterbury, a dark-brown hack gelding, aged, 16J hands high, scissors-brand on near shoulder, a little hair off both knees, well bred, in fair condition, shod all round, value £ls ; had on an old canvas cover sewn up in front, value ss. ; the property of Emmerson Bowes. Identifiable.