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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1080, 22 October 1883, Page 4

The Hawke’i- Bay 'Sera d remarks' bn thefact that daring the last year a pair of graces were patented under the title of •* suspenders, says that “one would hardly have thought New Zealand populoua.enough.to justify.the patenting of an ■.)/- According to the New Zealand Times a tribute to the pluck- of the British sailor was paid Recently-8t th& Wellington Resident Magistrate’s Court, both by Mr E. Hardoastl© - and Mr Chapman, the barrister , n The compliment; arose out of a oasp in which a ( Scandinavian seaman, was ch&&h<r with assaulting the master of his vessel oh the high seas. ■ For the defence Mr E.jtJhaW called tWo shipmates of the accused (also Scandinavians), with a view to prove that the prisoner had really first of assauliediby the master of the vessel. Each witness positively refused tPf he siWPW Stating aa their reason that tiffW feawd they .Would suffer at the hands Ql.imSl c Apt»io/4f- they gave evidence. The HUN) (gaidi be disbbarged at Auok • laud, and they, asked-for their discharge . bMP|{t«W«l;h®t;th»yjnight iba {free ■ to : give evidence.yjOna manusaid that' 1 he feared Oaptaufe£lseoi would throw him overboard Auckland if he gaive evidence adverse to him; In vain the Resident Magistrate pointed out to ibfii recalcitrant witnesses''the pains and penalties which.would inevitably attach to their persistence in refusing to bh sworn, and equally in vain was it that the Mayor advised them to give testimony, and pointed out to them how unfair it was to i to witholl’ what they nes£(Qi the ease, .The Resident Magistrate at length addressed the than who, at ijhalboz, andy willr some degree of asperity, told him ■ that his cowardice was not characteristic of a British,aeft9»m..7il.‘ ; Ah, your Worship," rejoined Mr Chapman,- “ but these men S tt D i3^W» h entt 9 gl fofa