Lane and It Stockwell of the Gcraint were charged with refusal of duty. The accused, after offering some frivolous excuses, were ordered to pay the costs of summonses, and to return to duty.
Wetterbeck, able seaman on board the Miranda, was charged by his captain with refusal of duty. The accused assigned as the cause of his refusal the conduct of the captain in finding fault with the manner in which he had furled one of the sails and sending him cover the vessel to scrub the sides.
The captain said the accused had done no work since the previotis Monday, and added that he had been 24 years in command of a ship and this was only the second time he had been obliged to appear in a Police court against any of his men, His Worship, who had no doubt that the accused
dered him to pay the cost of summons and forfeit' 20 had 5 en his captain sufficient cause of complaint, or-day's pay.
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