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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 286, 3 December 1868, Page 2

A serious ease- of mutiny on the high - seas is reported from Hobart Town. On t the Ist ult., the ship Western 'Empire, •-.Cnjitaiu J. T. Rogers, from Bombay to •• Callao, put into that port, the crew being • reported in a state of mutiny. The vessel • was one of the Abyssinian transport ships, i and was subsequently chartered at Bomhay to go to Callao: Ob 20t,h August, a -number of extra men were shipped, mak-i-inu a crew of 30 men all told. The men shipped at the port refused duty, and after be iug l>r ought before the magistrates at Bombay, were sentenced to imprisonment, aird were* ultimately sent on board the -ship in irons, aud confined in the forecastle.. After getting clear of the port, the men consented to return to work, and all went '■■well till October 28, when a mutiny arose, and the life of the master was threatened. He armed himself with a revolver, and returning to the poop, said that he would afire at the.- first man who came on the poop toiujurehim. On this two or three of the men rushed at him, and struck him on the face. He fired; a shot or two over rtheir! heads, thiuking to; frighten them, _ "but was knocked dowjj ? , beaten, and at fast put in irons, and kept In confinement till '.-'■ihe ,. Vessel; reached the port of Hobart y -The jlolice having been made acjqwaiittted with - ihe cU'cumstances of the S:P«s«i boar&ed \ifie vessel, and the ; mnti; 'atiem, W in Duajber, taken ioto custody. !