Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XIX, Issue 18, 4 September 1895, Page 140

Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

(From Gazette, 1895, pages 1272, 1274, 1301, and 1302.) Inspector of Abattoirs, d'C., County of Whangaroa, appointed. Colonial Secretary’s Office, Wellington, 19th August, 1895. HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Constable William Sefton to be Inspector of Abattoirs and Slaughterhouses and of Cattle intended for Slaughter, under “ The Abattoirs and Slaughterhouses Act, 1894,” for the County of Whangaroa. P. A. BUCKLEY.

Coroner appointed. Department of Justice, Wellington, 15th August, 1895. HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Hugh John Clarke Coutts, Esq., J.P., of Stratford, to be a Coroner within the colony. W. P. REEVES.

Certificate and Declaration under “ The Criminals Executions Act, 1883.” Department of Justice, Wellington, 16th August, 1895. THE following certificate and declaration are published in conformity with the provisions of “ The Criminals Executions Act, 1883.” W. P. REEVES. Certificate. I, Roderick Alexander MacLeod, the medical officer in attendance at the execution of Minnie Dean at the prison of Invercargill, do hereby certify and declare that I have this day witnessed the execution of the said Minnie Dean at the said prison; and I do further certify and declare that the said Minnie Dean was, in pursuance of the sentence of the Supreme Court, hanged by the neck until her body was dead. Given under my hand, this twelfth day of August, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninetyfive, at the prison of Invercargill. R. A. MacLeod, M. 8., C.M.

Declaration. We do hereby testify and declare that we have this day been present when the extreme penalty of the law was carried into execution on the body of Minnie Dean, convicted at the Criminal Session of the Supreme Court held at Invercargill on the twenty-first day of June last, and sentenced to death; and that the said Minnie Dean was, in pursuance of the said sentence, hanged by the neck until her body was dead. Dated this twelfth day of August, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, at the prison of Invercargill. W. Martin, Sheriff. J. H. Bratby, Gaoler. M. Hawkins, Warder. Geo. Lindsay, Chaplain. J. W. Poynton, Stipendiary Magistrate. F. Joyce. H. Carrick. J. Egmont Gunn. E. B. McKay. Wm. Saunders.

Awards of the Royal Humane Society of Australasia granted in Neio Zealand. 1373. — Eugene Egan, of Temuka, New Zealand, aged forty years, a constable, who rescued Michael Mulhern, of Temuka, a hotelkeeper, aged forty-five years, from his burning hotel, on the 6th August, 1894. Mr. Mulhern was heard groaning in one of the rooms of the hotel. Constable Egan broke the window, entered, and, groping about the floor, found Mr. Mulhern unconscious, and dragged him to the window. Constable Egan was assisted out in a dazed condition. Bronze medal.

1383.— Charles Robert Broberg, Police-station, Wellington, who risked his life in rescuing John Smith, who fell off the Queen’s Wharf on a dark night on the 3rd November, 1894. Certificate of merit.