Labor Recruiting in the South Seas.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 36, 13 January 1885, Page 2

Labor Recruiting in the South Seas.

The following" .are .jratfciQ-arsJ'if the crime in thaSouth Seas for which Mc-. . iNeilj-second mate- f and Bernard jJVdI-u. ' _jK_»*viei-'.li/\«r«tciT*ri_"*—- ---*.-•-.._ rfoop- " ml were sentenced to be _far_g|d m Queensland, but were recently in deference to the largely signed! petitions got up ink ;.their favor ;-j—The was recruiting in June -- last in the' D/Entfecasteanx group}. The captain, acebrding- "te*- the prosecution-, was asleep,, and-the Government -agent was drunk,-and the second mateJ NeU Mc Neil, thought, as canoes were |about the ship, that it wbuid-he'a " fine thing ■ -..to make a haul," , I|e lowered Kb boat, and proceeded to jwi'ze the occiipsnts of one.conoe. The natives jumped, overboard to swim for;tfibir fives, anc McNeil is sworn to have |shot .one of gtSiS i l 'swimmers/' l *^_ile'-' l '_h,e boatswain j (Wil- . Uams) shot another. Were .captured;' The capta_aHaa-come up on 7 c 'deck, wide with- the chief offißer| took partm piel_ijgiup.the;inati\»es};iadd the Government agent, (Schofield) allowed . ;,the,jai,en : to be l-egistexed. hushed up the, .business. McNeil a_d 5 •*■ Wilhams were sentenced to be hanged; .Captain Shaw and Schojfield (the} Goy n< j [; eridmenll %ef c- : to •be * imprisoned lor life, the first three years in irons-; - Freeman(the chief -'malic) w&§ to fie im,|pris,qjiedsM- te-_t,yeju*s, tiie fymtr.two in irons; and two seamen in the pursuing boat were sentenced to •' years, the first twelve months in irons.