Miscellaneous Informations.

Otago Police Gazette, Volume V, Issue 3, 31 March 1874, Page 20

Miscellaneous Informations.

(Return of Appointments, Ac., since the publication of last List.) Appointments as Constables. Boyce, Greenaway, No. 670. Bell, John, No. 671. Emerson, Thomas, No. 672. Evans, Eyre Stewart, No. 673. White, Archibald, No. 674. Mulholland, Hugh, No. 675.

Rewards. The sum of £3 has been awarded to Sergeant James Earrell, Lawrence police, in acknowledgment of his praiseworthy promptness in the pursuit and arrest of Thomas Drain, sentenced at the last sittings of the Supreme Court, at Lawrence, to two years’ imprisonment, with hard labour, for indecently assaulting a child aged 9 years.

(Vide Police Gazette, 1874, page 2.) The saddle reported as stolen on the 23rd December last, at Ida Valley, the property of John E. Jago, has been recovered.

(Vide Police Gazette, 1874, page 10.^) The horse reported as having been stolen or strayed from North-East Valley, near Dunedin, on the 29th January last, the property of John B. Curran, has been recovered.

On the night of the 23rd ultimo, ten panes of glass w T ere broken in the windows of the house of Miss Livingston, at the Taieri Beach. Value £2.

(Vide Police Gazette 1874, page 9.) Stephen Tunoy, charged on warrant ith assaulting and robbing William Schmidt, in a brothel at Dunedin, on the 18th ultimo, has been arrested by Special Constable Bain, Dunedin Police, and committed for trial.

(Vide Police Gazette, 1874, page 11.) The watch reported as stolen, on the 15th instant, at Wairika, near Oamaru, the property of Patrick Meagher, has been recovered.

(Vide Police Gazette, 1874, page 10.,) The gold diamond ring reported as stolen on the 29th January last, from the store of J. Graves, at Oamaru, has been recovered.

(Vide Police Gazette, 1873, page 74.) One of the £1 notes on the Bank of Australasia* No. 21542, contained in the registered parcel reported as stolen from mail bags between Christchurch and , Dunedin, was found about the last week in February on the Dunedin North Cemetery road, by a boy named Samuel Bobinson. On the night of the 20th instant, a quantity of spirits was poured into the letter-box at the Dunedin Post Office, Princes-street, damaging a number of the letters. The head of a black pint bottle, with cork, and sealed with black sealing-wax, was found in the letter-box.

(Vide Canterbury Police Gazette, 1 6th March, 1874 page 39.) Kalph Gibson Flindell, charged with wife desertion, has been arrested by the Dunedin police, and remanded to Christchurch.

(Vide Police Gazette, 1874, page 3.)

The light draught and saddle mare reported as stolen at Oamaru on the 19th January last, the property of Thomas Scott, has been recovered.-

Vide Police Gazette, 1874, page 11.)

The two horses reported as stolen in November, 1872, from Bendigo, the property of Thomas Logan, have been recovered. One of them was sold at Hyde in January last, by J. W. Jones, a horsebreaker, who has been arrested by Sergeant O’Keeffe, Waikouaiti police, and committed for trial for stealing the same. The other had been frequently worked by James Sanderson, a miner, who resides at Hyde.

Elizabeth Sparks, charged with deserting her child at Dunedin, on the 29th of December last, has been arrested by the Canterbury police.

Qum Nong, alias Sam Queen, alias On Say, alias Plash Jemmy, charged with obtaining goods by false pretences, at Dunedin, on the 17th January last, has been arrested by Sergeant Neil, Port Chalmers police, and committed for trial.

Dacre Bruce Barclay, charged with obtaining money by false pretences, at Dunedin, on the 10th instant, has been arrested by Sergeant Finnegan, Balclutha police, and committed for trial on two charges of false pretences.

(Vide Police Gazette, 1874, page 9.)

Thomas Potter, alias David Salmon, charged with stealing a meerschaum pipe from the Munster Arms Hotel, "Walker-street, Dunedin, has been arrested by Constable Henderson, Dunedin police, and sentenced to two months’ labour.