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Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1953, 9 November 1874, Page 2

The continuation o! bad weather on the Coast has prevented any of the .vessels in port being towed to sea during the last two days. The p.s. Dispatch remains in port waiting for an opportunity to take the fleet of coal-laden vessels to sea, whenever the weather moderates. Entries in a log-book were refused recently as evidence at the Williamstown Court under circumstances which show the necessity for captains of vessels keeping that record with the strictest regularity. Captain Boag. of the Evelyn, admitted that occurrences had not been, entered in the log immediately, but in a private diary which he kept, and from which they were copied into the log-book ; and hft expressed the full belief that be was at liberty to make these entries at any time to within 24 hours' after the ship's arrival in port. The Bench held that the act required the entries to be made as quickly as possible after tbe occurrence of an oSeriee, and as this was not done in the case before them they felt bound to ignore the entries produced as evidence, and che complaint brought by the master against a seaman was, in consequence, dismissed. "