Miscellaneous Information.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XVI, Issue 7, 6 April 1892, Page 52

Miscellaneous Information.

Resignation. Constable Henry Ernest Felton, No. 545.

Discharged on Compensation. Constable John Morton, No. 35.

Rewards. Constables P. J. Dunne and E. Mackay, Auckland Police, have been awarded £2 each by the Acclimatisation Society for securing convictions under “ The Animals Protection Act, 1880.” (92/498.) Constable C. Bleasel, Lyttelton Police, has been awarded £2 by the master of the barque “ Samoa ” for recovering his stolen dog. (92/504.) Constable R. Crawford, Timaru, T. Drake, Addington, and W. H. Haddrell, Sheffield, have been awarded £2 each by the Telegraph Department, for obtaining convictions against boys for breaking insulators. (92/443.)

Constable J. Kennedy, Clive Police, has been awarded £5 ss. by the District Road Board, for assistance rendered in keeping the roads clear of stray cattle. (92/451.)

(See Police Gazette, 1892, page 41.) Erratum. —Reward to Constable Mulholland, Cromwell, "for stopping a runaway horse, for “ J. Roberts” read “ J. Richards.”

“Beer Duty Act, 1880.”

(Circular Memo. No. G/92.) The following general orders issued by the Customs Department in ISBI are republished for general information and guidance, and all ranks of this department are directed to give their cordial co-operation to the Customs officials in carrying out the provisions of “ The Beer Duty Act, 1880.” The Commissioner points out that without the aid of the police it is quite impossible for the Customs Department to place any check on practices detrimental to the revenue, such as the return by publicans to brewers of casks with undefaced stamps upon them, and therefore asks that all possible assistance will be promptly and cheerfully given by all ranks. A. Hume, By order. * Commissioner of Police. Wellington, 28th March, 1892. (92/447.)

Customs General Orders.

(No. 47/81.) A constable may be appointed at each station to see that the provisions of the Beer Duty Acts are properly enforced. (No. 48/81.) 1. Constables so appointed should make occasional visits at uncertain intervals to hotels and other places where beer is kept or sold ; but they are only to visit breweries for the purpose of internal inspection under exceptionable circumstances, and should refer to the Collector of the district to obtain his authority before making such inspection. 2. They should confine themselves chiefly to the inspection of casks of beer in transit, with the object of seeing that the casks have been properly stamped, that the stamps on full casks have been duly cancelled, and those on empty or returned casks destroyed.

Sup>pression of Games of Chance on Racecourses, etc

(Circular Memo. No. 8/92.) The Commissioner’s attention having been called to the want of uniformity of system throughout the colony in dealing with spielers and games of chance on racecourses and other public gatherings, the attention of Inspectors is called to “The Gaming and Lotteries Act, 1881,” clause 8, which distinctly prohibits all such games. The spielers conducting their games are first to be warned that games of chance are not permitted, and if any have been started they are to be directed to desist; and if they then fail to discontinue, their instruments are to be seized, and action is to be taken against them. It is necessary that the law be strictly enforced in this matter in all districts; and it is believed that the suppression of games of chance, and thereby, of spielers, will very soon materially lessen crime. By order. A. Hume,

Commissioner of Police. (92/389.)

Wellington, 2nd April, 1892

Joseph O’Mara and James Ramsay, two notorious Queensland thieves, arrived at the Bluff, as seamen, in the s.s. “ Indramayo,” from Brisbane, on the 10th ultimo, and deserted the vessel shortly after. Description: O’Mara is Irish, a labourer, twenty-three years of age, sft. 9in. in height, weighs about list. 41b., brown hair and eyes, blotched letters on right wrist. Ramsay is Scotch, a storekeeper, thirty-six years of age, *sft. 6Jin. high, about 13st. weight, fair hair, brown eyes, bruise on right shin, face highly coloured and blotched. They are supposed to have brought a quantity of stolen property with them (watches and jewellery), and it is requested that steps may be taken to ascertain if such is the case, or if they have disposed of any in this colony. Photographs and list of watches, &c., recently reported stolen, at Commissioner’s Office. (92/289.)