W.W. King, W. J. Keeling, W. Scott, and F. K. Bentley, were summoned for non-registration, as British subjects. Some of the defendants did not appear. Mr. Giles (Vice-Consul) appeared to prosecute, and said that all the defendants were now registered. Keeling and Burkill were reistered before they received their summonses.
The defendants, with the exception of Keeling and Burkill, were ordered to pay '$1.50 costs each.
SMITHC AND ANOTHER, W. H. Smith, boatswain, and O. Muller, seaman, of the British steamship Olaverdale, vere brought up on remand charged with refusal of duty.
The case was previously heard on Saturday, and adjourned in order to allow Smith time to bring evidence as to the trath of his allegations of bad treatment by the captain of the sip, a reply to his Worship, Smith said that the witnesses he had intended to bring to Court had not been allowed to Jeave the ship by the captain.
Phe captain denied this statement, and said that he had given the man every facility for appearing in Court.
His Worship ordered the two men to be
and to be placed on board the Claverdale imprisoned for two weeks with hard labour, should she sail before the expiration of the sentence.
The Court reassembled in the afternoon,
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