INQUIRIES, ETC., FROM OUTSIDE NEW ZEALAND.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 22, 3 June 1908, Page 247

INQUIRIES, ETC., FROM OUTSIDE NEW ZEALAND.

Sydney. A warrant has been issued by the Water Police Bench for the arrest of J. 11. Orde, charged with obtaining jewellery, &c., value £33, from Messrs. Angus and Ooote, 492 George Street, on the 30th April last, by means of false pretences. Offender is from thirty to thirty-five years of age, 5 ft. 4 in. or 5 in. high, thin to medium build,’ sandy complexion, light-brown crisp hair, slight brown moustache only, rather prapoLment nose ; when looking at a document holds same side of face; may be dressed in a new grey-tweed fie stripe, running through material, black bid;{pmboots,Slither black hard or soft fawn-coloured hat;/W? with him fepuall brmyn-leather kit-bag and new tity of gentlemen’s n|Aundefcwear,lajid in new straps, silver-njopnted n<W umßrella; lKfcdly resident of Taree, where lie was traveling for a \ppe company. He is a and? when inLary samfm the Wesleyah (fMnjih chpir| smart appearance!; is to be a French -(Lniyclian, stoeaks French ana German. Description of Ahe jewellery, viz. hunting watch; a 15 ct. gold double curb albert, 2 oz. in weight; a 9 ct. gold sovereigsn-purse; a 9 ct. gold shield-shape locket, half engraved ; and a two - bar gold brooch. He is also charged with obtaining the following jewellery by false pretences from Hardy Bros., Hunter Street, Sydney: A gold ring set with three emeralds and two diamonds, claw setting, “M. 4338, VSORS ” scratched and “4833 ” stamped on it ; gold ring, set with an emerald and a diamond, claw setting, “M. 5010, VST'S ” scratched and “ 4833 ” stamped on it; gold ring, set with three rubies and two diamonds, claw setting, “M. 4319, OMRT ” scratched and “4833” stamped on it ; a gold eight-pointed combination star brooch and pendant, diamond centre, diamonds and half-pearls on points, “Y. 403 ”on it; a fine-gold necklace. Offender is evidently a clever false-pretences man, and may come to New Zealand. Arrest desired, and extradition expenses guaranteed. (See New South Wales Police Gazette, 1908, pages 172 and 173). (08/1224.)

Sydney. — William Hunter Walker is charged on warrant with larceny as a bailee on Edith Florence Merrifield, 6 Hawksburn Road, Hawksburn, at Melbourne, on the sth December, 1907, of 400 preference shares in the Dunlop Rubber Company of Australasia (Limited). Description : Thirty-four years of age, 5 ft. 7 in. high, stout build, about 11 st. weight, very erect, dark complexion, dark-brown

hair, clean-shaved, nose has been broken, high forehead, hair off temples ; wore a dark-blue serge suit, black boxer hat, and a leather watch-chain. Offender was a member of the. Stock Exchange, Melbourne, a sub-lieufenant in the Navals, Melbourne, and has been an officer in merchant ships. About the 29th March last he was a passenger by the “ Loongana ” to Launceston, and may endeavour to reach New Zealand and work his passage as a seaman to another country. (See New South Wales Police Gazette, 1908, page 157.) (08/1217.)

Sydney. —Robbery of opal from mail-coach between Lightning Ridge and Borah Tank, near Walgett, between 10 p.m., 11th, and 4 a.m., 12th May, 1908. Particulars of contents of two boxes of opal branded “ K. No. 1,” and “ K. No. 2,” posted at Lightning Ridge, 11th May, 1908, addressed “T, C. Wollaston, Glenelg, South Australia.” K. No. 1 contained boulder opal (large pieces of flinty brown rock with veins of red, green, and blue opal in the rock and on the exposed faces) securely packed in sawdust in a tin (probably a 5 lb. tea-tin), tied around with strong twine, and sewn up in new white calico with black thread, and “ T. C. Wollaston, Glenelg, South Australia,” in large letters printed on the outside. K. No. 2 contained eighteen out and faced stones packed in a small round tobacco-tin, packed with sawdust—amongst them the following were remarkable : A nicely shaped oval cut, black green with good red in the green, about 7 ct., the back of the stone is flat, and has a brown spot in centre of back; a large oval-shaped stone, cut, the flat side is dark red with tinge of purple some ways, the back is oval and all dark-brown patch; a fairly large partly cut stone, the faced part is nicely oval and full of good bright combination of red, green, orange, &c., the back is black patch, partly hollow in the centre, the sides had the rouge-powder left from the cutting still on them (a reddishbrown colour) ; a faced stone, real black opal, with good strong red in the black, rather large pattern, rather flat, not quite down to the colour on one corner, about 2 dwt. There was also a smaller oval-cut black-green stone, something like the the first one in this list, but of much poorer quality, and it lacked the red; a round-faced stone, size of a shilling, perfectly round, surface slightly oval, the back had a thin natural coating of white on it, but was transparent, the stone was quite true, and of a brilliant red, with slight tinge of orange through the red, was not of the black or dark variety, but clear with good red and body, the oval face was ground but not polished. The balance of these cut and faced stones would be hard to recognise by a detailed description ; they are all fairly good red stones faced on one side only. In K. No, 2 there was also another small tin tobacco-box containing 2 oz. 13 dwt. of rough opal of extragood quality packed in saw-dust; amongst them are a large junky stone in two pieces, the smaller piece being about one-third of the whole, black opal on top, bottom with about fin. to Jin. thickness of bright-red opal right through centre of stone, rather large check-pattern, (i.e., the pattern being up and down, instead of horizontal), there is a sandcrevice in the good opal that has been cleaned out; a nice junky clear opal stone with very thin white coating on top and bottom, about 6 dwt,, the larger portion of the top beinggood bright green, good pattern, about a third of the bottom being brilliant red, the whole stone is very transparent when held up to the light; a thick junk of rough opal, about Jin. thick, fin. to lin. long, and fin. wide, with exceptionally brilliant red all over the top, and showing on the sides for fin., then some jet-black opal is exposed in two places by chipping, but only lines of black, from the underneath of the stone a boney back has been taken off with tihe snips until the red colour is showing through in one or two places, but not as brilliant red as that on the top, about 8 dwt. The balance of the 2oz. 13 dwt. is mostly clear red stones, principally round, with a little boney patch on one side or the other ; only one or two of the smaller ones absolutely true, none of them of the black or dark variety, mostly transparent to look through, or parts of them. Also, there was in a calico-bag packet in sawdust 15 oz. of fair opal, a lot of it similar to last lot described (mostly New Chum), with some of the black or dark variety mixed through it. Also, there was in a calico bag packed in sawdust 18 oz. 5 dwt. of opal, medium quality ; most of this was the black and green class, one large stone amongst it weighing about 20z., the larger portion purple-blue with a small pattern, on the other side, broken and exposed, showed good green, and the green bar went across one end of the stone. Also, a calico bag containing 8 oz. 2 dwt. of opal packed in sawdust, mostly low quality, grey-reds or dull-reds ; a large-faced stone amongst it, dirty-red with some orange and green through it; a true stone, faced and polished on one side showing a large surface of colour, got on Sims’s Hill, known as Sims’s Seam opal, and finally rolled up in paper and put in amongst the other bags by itself after the box was packed ; a black opal, large red pattern, faced and polished one side, a flat stone, about 2 dwt. There are lots of other stones, nothing special about them. K. No. 2, as above described, was packed in a square cardboard box, metal fastenings at comers, sewn up in new white calico with black thread, and. addressed to “ T. G. Wallaston, Glenelg, South Australia,” in large capital letters. Value, £4lO 10s. Identifiable. (08/1162.)

England.— Inquiry requested for Henry William Sherwill, or Martin, for some time said to have been working at the Railway Goods Depot, Christchurch. He would now be about sixty-seven years of age. It is about twenty years since his relatives heard from him. Inquiry by D. M. Sherwill, Hove, Sussex, England. (08/905.)