Timid Emigrants
♦— - — At Kirkwall Sheriff-court on 13h November the Hudson's Bay Compur.v brought an actum under the Employers' and Workmen's Act against three Orkney farm servants who had contracted to «jo out to Hudson's Bay Ter 1 tor y in America, for five years a* servants of the company, but who now refused to embark. The company in each ca**e claimed £10 damages, and after hearing 1 evidence f-heriff Meliis awarded the full damages in one ca*e and in the others £5, wirh expenses. The learned Sheriff stated that th' parties had gone into the engagement with open eyes and must abuie by the consequences.
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Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 11, 29 January 1884, Page 3
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105Timid Emigrants Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 11, 29 January 1884, Page 3
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