Miscellaneous Information.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XVI, Issue 1, 13 January 1892, Page 4

Miscellaneous Information.

Appointment as Sergeant-Major. Samuel Moore, No. 617, from Ist ultimo. (91/1822.)

Appointments as Constables Frederick Yems Watty, No. 618. John Forster, No. 619.

Promotion,

Third-class Sergeant Joseph Swinbourne Kelly, No. 87, is promoted to second-class sergeant, with effect from the 16th ultimo, for his gallant, cool, and plucky conduct in, without hesitation, jumping into the Auckland Harbour and saving Mr. John Abbott from drowning. (91/1928.)

Discharge. Constable Timothy O’Connor, No. 389,

Dismissal,

Constable Jeremiah Mullane, No. 590

Agricultural Statistics. The police are requested to render the usual assistance in the collection of agricultural statistics, to be made in February next, under the direction of the SuperintendentCollectors, whose appointments will presently be notified in the New Zealand Gazette. A. Hume, Commissioner. Wellington, 7th January, 1892. (92/24.)

Reioards

The sum of £1 each has been awarded to undermentioned members of the Lyttelton Police for placing refractory seamen on board the s.s. “ AorangiSergeant J. O’Malley, Constables P. McCormack, C. Bleasel, T. J. McCormack, T. Breen, and G. Fitzgerald. (92/6.)

Constable M. O’Brien, Middlemarch Police, has been awarded £2 2s. by the Otago Acclimatisation Society, in recognition of his services in securing three convictions for poaching wild ducks. (92/12.) Constables E. Mackay and A. F. Gordon, Auckland Police, have been awarded £6 and £5 respectively, for arresting deserters from the Russian war-ship “ Djigit.” (92/21.) Constables P. McCormack and G. Fitzgerald, Lyttelton Police, have been awarded £3 each for arresting two stragglers from 11.M.5. “ Ringarooma.” (92/34.) Sergeant J. Slattery, and Constables W. J. Phair and R. Kelly, Nelson Police, have been awarded £1 each in recognition of their services in the detection of Amelia J. Gillingham, fined £lO and costs for sly grog-selling. (91/1920.) Constable C. Bleasel, Lyttelton Police, has been awarded £1 for arrest of a straggler from H.M.S. “Ringarooma.” (92/51.) Sergeant J. S. Kelly and Constable L. McDonnell, Auckland Police, have been awarded £2 each for arresting stragglers from H.M.S. “ Tauranga.” (92/39.) Sergeant J. Donovan, Auckland Police, has been awarded £8 for arresting Ah Pil, a deserter from H.M.S. “ Cordelia.” (91/1593.) Constable D. Gordon, Whangarei Police, has been awarded £8 for the arrest of W. Madden, a deserter from H.M.S. “