Extracts from Victoria Police Gazette.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XVI, Issue 5, 9 March 1892, Page 33

Extracts from Victoria Police Gazette.

(From Gazette, 1892, pages 44 and 62.) Edwyn Charles is inquired for by his mother, Porlock, Taunton, England, and Thomas Stock, 476, Flinders Street A West, Melbourne. His last letter home was dated the 28th S( May, 1886, from Gisborne, New Zealand. He was formerly"'?, in the employment of Mr. Joseph Stock, merchant, Inver- fl. cargill. Letters addressed to Charles, at Gisborne, sub- r sequent to May, 1886, were returned through the dead-letter 1 office. He is said to have had an intention of going to Queensland. —0. 1206, 6th February, 1892.

John Oakley is charged on warrant with obtaining £2 by false pretences from Andrew L. Clark, produce-dealer, Mayfield, Abbotsford, on the 17th instant, at 138, Church Street, Richmond. Description : About twenty-three or twenty-four years of age, sft. 6in. high, medium build, very fair complexion, fair moustache only; wore a black-serge coat and vest, light trousers, and black-boxer hat. May leave by one of the New Zealand boats. Offender represented that he wanted £2 to pay for some harness that he had bought for his employer.—o. 1633, 20th February, 1892.