INQUIRIES, ETC., FROM OUTSIDE NEW ZEALAND.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 35, 4 September 1907, Page 347

INQUIRIES, ETC., FROM OUTSIDE NEW ZEALAND.

Reward £4OO. — Theft,

Sumatra. —Stolen, on 15th July last, from the Nether lands Indian Government Treasury, at Koeta-Radja (Sumatra), a large number of Java bank-notes. The above reward will be paid for information leading to the discovery of the perpetrator of the theft. Any information obtained to be immediately forwarded to the Commissioner’s Office, Wellington. (07/1915.)

Charters Towers. —A warrant has been issued by the Charters Towers Bench for the arrest of Maurice O’Connor, charged with deserting his illegitimate child by Annie Dorothy Horns, at Charters Towers, on 25th July, 1907. Offender is twenty-four years of age, 5 ft. 8 in. high, fair complexion, small fair moustache, light-coloured hair, blue eyes, overhanging eyebrows, square jaws, broad shoulders inclined to stoop; an hotel yardman, and an Irishman ; dressed in brown suit and Panama hat. Supposed gone to Wellington, New Zealand. If offender consents to an order being made for the payment of £lO (confinement expenses) and 10s. per week for the support of the child the warrant need not be executed. (See Queensland Police Gazette, 1907, page 302.)

Sydney. —On the 20th or 21st ultimo the residence of the Hon. E. R. Deas-Thompson, “ Rockley,” Elizabeth Bay, was burglariously entered, and the following articles stolen: Two silver presentation trowels, first inscribed “To Lady (or Mrs.) Deas-Thompson, by the School of Industry ” ; second, “Presented to the Hon. E. Deas-Thompson, G. 8., President of the Destitute Children’s Society, os the occasion of his laying the foundation-stone of the Catherine Hayes Hospital in connection with the Destitute Children's Asylum, Randwick, 18th December, 1868 ’’; a large-size commemorative gold medal, in. in diameter, inscribed “Presented to the Hon. Sir Edward Deas-Thompson, K.C.M.6., for services rendered as Vice-President of the Commission of the New South Wales ” (supposed in connection with the French Exhibition); a white-metal medal, 2f in. in diameter (inscription at present not known); two Sydney University medals, one silver and the other bronze, about the size of a five-shilling piece; a round crystal clock, about the size of a cricket-ball, winds at handle ; and a number of Flor de Muria cigars: total value, £lO. Identifiable. (07/1909.)