(Case adjourned)
Allegations by members of the crow. of the steamship, St. Vincent @o Paul, to the effect that the master of the' vessel, Capt, Charles Turner, had net paid them. their share of a bonus amounting to $1,132, were heard befor Judge P, Grant Jones in HM. Supreme Court yesterday in a claim against the master, fied by them.
Mr, K, E, Newman appeared for plainiits and Mr, Ranald' MeDonala Fepresented defendant, At the outset Mr, Newman made an application to the Judge for the ease 10 heard as quickly as. possible, adding that, although this was the summer vacation, it was in the interests of all parties to conclude the ease as soon as possible as they were all seafaring men who. could not afford to be absent from their calle ing, Mr, MeDonald endorsed Mr, Newman's remarks, The application was granted, Outlining the case, Mr, Newman stated that it arose from "a claim made by 32 members of the crew of the s, St, Vincent de Paul, inelud~ ing engineers and the second officer, against Capt, Turner for bonus allegedly "received by him for four months last year which was to be repaid to the crew, Mr, "Newman pointed out that the issue was a simple one in' that' Capt, Turner denied having. received the bonus from the charterers, the Tal Chang Cheang Steamship Ca, whereas the crew were of the opinion. that. the money had been paid to Capt, Turner on their behalf, Five members of the crew, H, Lent, chief officer "J. A. Compton, second engineer F. H. Clu, second atleer A. D. Chu, boatswain A. 6. Gee, Wo, 1 oiler, gave evidence dur-Ing which several of them testified that they had received a' bonus for four months but that it had ceased in May 1998, Capt, Turner had me formed them that the charterers had ceased to pay bonus, which made the crew dissatisfied and' they had applied to the charterers, who stated that the bonus had been" pald to Capt, Turner, 'The assistant manager of the charterers, Lun Kun Yueh, said that hho had personally handed' over $600 to Capt, 'Turner in May, this. being the bonus due for" that' month, It was stated that the general manager of the chatterers," Mr, Koh (Kee) was sick and that he would not be able to appear until Tater and theres fore Mr, Newman asked for an Adjournment until next week, other constable and between them thermore, since then, a suit had been Ut was stated that the accused sold Zee, It was stated, lett Nanwei they seized Newton and dragged him brought against Father Cerezal and six fake passes to the Che Jen Trans-November after the hostilities fo. Out of the house, Following this had been dismissed as he was "subport Ca. at 650 Kwangse Road at a Shanghai, and on the way he sp. incident the man was charged with ect to Italian: jurisdiction." price of $8.30 each. When the passes ested that the jewellery and mong; the offence for which he was bound Dr. Fischer denied that, as alleged, were proved to be fakes the four should be buried "under "his hows over yesterday. men were arrested and they impli-4m Siking. 'This was agreed to ant a deed for certain property, to the value of $700,000, was made in Octo-cated a Japanese, who was said to both men came to Shanghai without, Yer 1934, Defendants' information have supplied them with the passes, the valuables as they did not wish Was that "the property, which is still The Japanese, it was stated, was to risk losing them in an encounter
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