Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XXIII, Issue 16, 2 August 1899, Page 166

Stealing Otherwise than from the Person or from Dwellings.

Hikurangi.— William Woods, Hukerenui, reports stolen from the Waiotu Railway Flag-station, on the 4th or sth instant, two sacks, marked WW over 1, containing good, ordinary kauri - gum, value £lO ; and one sack, marked WW over 4, containing black gum, value £4.

(See Police Gazette, 1899, page 156.) Whangarei. —Maud Philips’s two horse-covers have been found.

Gisborne. — Walter Stannard is charged on warrant with the theft, on the 21st ultimo, of a saddle, the property of Alexander Keefer. For description of offender see Police Gazette, 1899, page 46. Dressed, when last seen, in a drab covert-coat, dirty dark waterproof, and soft drab-felt hat. Offender was intrusted with the saddle to sell, and obtained £4 for it, but has cleared out with the money. He is supposed to have left Gisborne on the 23rd ultimo for Wairoa and Napier, riding a bay horse. (See also next notice.)

Gisborne. —Charles Henry Walter Dixon, clerk, Land Transfer Office, reports stolen from off his horse, on the 20th ultimo, an English-made saddle, branded 8.W.8. under right flap, small knee-pads, nickel-plated stirrup-irons; value, £5. Suspicion attached to Walter Stannard, for whose description see Police Gazette, 1899, page 46. (See also “ Offences not otherwise described.”)

(See Police Gazette, 1899, page 135.) Pungarehu. —The Rev. Harry Mason’s headstall-bridle has been found.

Hawera. — Eruera Whakahau, farmer, Kauwhangaroa, reports stolen from a box while in transit by train from Fordell to Hawera, between the Bth and 12th June last, five kiekie mats, each composed of four or five strips fastened together, and striped in blue, green, and black ; value, £3 or £4 each.

Poxton. —Samuel George Peek, flax-outter, reports stolen, on the 23rd ultimo, a flat-bottom boat, painted red, 10 ft. long, with centre-board and two oars; value, £2.

Palmerston North. —Edward Richards, Baptist minister, reports stolen from an outhouse, during the night of the 20th ultimo, a buggy-collar, w r ell worn, lined with patent leather, strap at top has been roughly stitched ; a moulding-plane, a double-bladed plane with iron handle, a small ordinary plane, and three bracing-bits, 1 in., Jin., and fin.: value, in all, £1 15s. 6d.

Palmerston North. —Richard Leary, chemist, reports stolen from his coach-house, on the 21st or 22nd ultimo, a set of dark buggy-harness, nearly new, white-niokel mounted, English patent-leather collar and saddle, breeching has swell front buckles, saddle has white facings and lined straps with box loops, value £8; and a yellow-coloured single-reined bridle with common steel bit, value 7s. 6d.

Christchurch. —John Francis Barnett, chemist, reports stolen from Morton’s Buildings, on the 12th ultimo, a black mackintosh overcoat, long sleeves and cape, no lining; a dark pepper-and -salt tweed dress-coat, a pair of dark-brown kid gloves, and about ss. in silver: value, in all, about £3.

Christchurch. John Campbell, hairdresser, reports stolen from the doorway of the Commercial Restaurant, High Street, on the 3rd ultimo, a gentlemen’s Beeston Humber bicycle, No. (supposed) 22063, in bad condition, Stirling wheels, block chain, nickel-plated rims, drooping handle-bars, cork handles, crack across one tube of front fork, Brook’s saddle, Dunlop tires ; value, £7.

Christchurch. —Charles Teiehert, tailor, Colombo Street, reports that between the Bth and 10th ultimo his shop was broken into, and the following stolen : A brown-tweed coat and vest, size 7; a pair of drab-tweed trousers, a pair of slate-ooloured check-tweed trousers, and a pair of blackworsted trousers : value, £6 7s. 6d. Identifiable.

Temuka. —Charles McLean, labourer, Opihi, reports stolen from a wash-house at the Star Hotel, Temuka., on the 11th or 12th ultimo, a gentlemen’s Envoy bicycle, No. 24244, black-enamelled, 24 in. frame, 28 in. wheels, Westwood rims, Hartford tires, Gillam’s hygienic saddle, small piece of front whe n l broken and tied with string, two months in use, new Holophose lamp ; value, £2l. Suspicion attached to Walter Lylian, a native of Australia, thirty-seven or thirty-eight years of age, 5 ft. 8 in. or 9 in. high, slight build, dark hair and complexion, shaved except moustache, round shoulders, swings his arms when walking; dressed in a dark-tweed suit, and usually wears a skull-cap or felt hat. He resides at Alford Forest, near Stavely, and it it expected will shortly be leaving for Australia, as he goes there for shearing.

Dunedin. —Annie Donald, school-teacher, reports stolen from the gymnasium of the Normal School, on the 10th ultimo, a ladies’ silver Geneva hunting-watch, No. 92784; value, £3 10s.