HREMAN AND HIS SHIP.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1013, 31 December 1910, Page 5

HREMAN AND HIS SHIP.

MiNY SORROWS, AND £ • SENTENCE.;, ■: (By Telegraph-Press- Association,) Dunedin, December 30, Dowdpll, firdman on the jSteampr Clan Chisholm, pleaded' guilty at. Port Chalmers to-day to a charge of Wing absent from- the steamer. Serigcant Dougan told the Court that tho . vessel , left yesterday evening for TimaijTi,: but bfforo she wont. away accused ;and a mate, both partially intoxicated, i.ivere put on board several times by the 'police, but no effort was made by those on board to prevent the accused from 'leaving the ship after being put on iboard. Accused evidently had a grievance,- which he was told to seek redress for by legal methods. .Instead of doing so, be insisted on leaving the ship illegally, and eventually tho .agent of the -ship -(Mr. Wood) gavo him in charge. The Bench te accused): What have you to say? . .■;■ .. "Accused: "I have-a lot'to say. I 'have been told to get out'of the ship '■ on more than one occasion by the engineers." He had been.- practically chased out of the ship. ' Ho; gave no cause for that treatment; The food supplied on tho vessel, he said, was not fit to bo eaten; the living apartment was not properly illuminated at night-time,-ana, besides, tho ship'was shorthanded. He and another man had themselves -fired her. shorthanded ever since she had been in the'colonics. The presiding Justices, Messrs. Do Maus and Watson, sentenced accused to fourteen days' imprisonment; but he will'.be put on hoard the vessel if she Sails.:before;the term expires.