RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT, PORT CHALMERS.
Yesterday.
(Before Captain W. Thomson and Or O’Donoghue, J.P.
ILLEGAL DISCHARGE
Captain Green, of the ship Harvest Home, was yesterday charged with illegally and contrary to the 207 th clause of the Merchant Seaman’s Act, discharging one Joseph Crooks. Mr Mansford prosecuted, and asked for a remand as the official log book had not been produced, but on Captain Green stating teat it contained no entries injurious to the character of Crooks, the case was proceeded with. In evidence Joseph Crooks recognised his signature on the ship’s articles, and stated that he had shipped on board the Harvest Home at Liverpool as chief mate, and ha I served on board in that capacity, and that daring the voyage and whilst the ship had been in this port no complaints had b j en made until the morning of the 15th inst. when the captain came on board and having caHe I him down the cabin, said he had been drunk, .and was to go on shore and get discharged or he would withhold his certificate (which was a masters one). He went on shore, but de dined to be discharged, as Captain Green desired to stop two months pay on account of monies advanced to his wife as half-pay. Mr Spence, on cross-ex-amination, said he had been engaged on the loth inst.. by Captain Green. He was to act as chief officer, and was to receive LlO a month. The agreement was verbal. He was not on the articles, or was desired-to go furl her than the B'uff with the ships. Captain Green then called witnesses, and the bench having asked Crooks, and been answered in the affirmative if he would have accepted his di charge if the wages account had been satisfactory, dismissed the case.
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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2522, 17 March 1871, Page 2
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301RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT, PORT CHALMERS. Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2522, 17 March 1871, Page 2
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