Offences Not Otherwise Described.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XIV, Issue 15, 16 July 1890, Page 131

Offences Not Otherwise Described.

Between 11 p.m. on the 2nd and 6.30 a.m. on the 3rd instant the hair of the tail and the mane were maliciously cut off a horse at Whare Flat, near Dunedin ; the property ol Donald McQuilkan.

On the morning of the 6th instant, at Eketahuna, three signboards, the property of Daniel E. Toohill, were maliciously smeared with coal-tar, and damaged to the extent of £1 10s.

On the 26th ultimo, at Waikaia, a saddle and bridle, the property of Charles George Thurston, were maliciously cut in several places with a knife, and damaged to the extent of £1 10s.

Edward John Robinson is charged, on warrant issued by the Wellington Bench, with having, on the 11th March last, at Wellington, embezzled £1 7s. 3d., the moneys of Her Majesty’s Customs. Description : A native of the colony, a clerk, about twenty-five years.of age, about sft. Sin. high, medium build, athletic appearance, black curly hair, small black moustache and side whiskers, chin and lower part of cheeks shaved, brown eyes, swarthy complexion with traces of Maori or Indian blood; when last seen wore dark ulster and black hard-felt hat with low crown and wide brim. He is a prominent Wellington footballer and cricketer, and also a petty officer in the Wellington Naval Brigade, and will probably have photograph groups of football and other teams in his possession. He was until recently employed as a clerk in the Customs Department, Wellington, and while acting in that capacity embezzled the money. Other defalcations to the amount of £SO have been discovered. Ho is supposed to have left Wellington on the 4th instant by the steamer “ Tarawera ” for Sydney.

A man, name unknown, is charged with having, at 6 p.m. on the 10th ultimo, in the bar of the British Hotel, Queen Street, Auckland, uttered to Alexander Johnson a counterfeit

sovereign. Description: About forty years of age, sft. Sin. high, stout build, clean-shaved except dark moustache; dressed in dark clothes and soft black-felt hat; looked like a labourer. Identification doubtful.

(See Police Gazette, 1890, page 121.)

It is now believed that the endless machine-wire at the paper-mills of Coulls, Culling, and Co., Mataura, was accidentally cut.