POLICE OFFICE. June 18, 1846. Before H. ST. HILL, ESQ., P. M.
James Carroll, John Ramsay, John Kennedy, Thomas Bolton, Robert Davis, James M'Creadie, Robert Baldwin, and John Phillip, belonging to the barque Kestrel, were charged by_ R. N. Beauvais, the master of the vessel, with insubordination and mutinous conduct. From the evidence of Capt. Beauvais it appeared that the men had signed ai tides to serve in the Kestrel as able seamen for twelve calendar months. On the arrival of the vessel in harbour they refused to do their duty. He requested them to discharge the vessel of her cargo, and if they had any complaint to make afterwards, they should be allowed to go on shore and make it. The defendants afterwards, in the presence of Capt. Stanley, R.N., of H.M.S. Calliope, who had been requested to come on board the Kestrel, refused to work, and Captain Beauvais, was obliged to employ three labourers to discharge the cattle. On the sixth of June, during the passage from Sydney, John Ramsay had refused to do his duty, and had not been on duty since; and on the twelfth of June James Carroll had refused to do his duty, and had since that time continued off duty. T. Selkirk, chief mate of the Kestrel, confirmed the evidence of Capt. Beauvais, and proved that the crew had been well and properly treated by Capt. Beauvais during the voyage from Sydney, and that they had double the quantity of provisions for which they signed articles. . The evidence of Messrs. C. Sidy, F. W. Clark, and W. M. Bannatyne, passengers in the Kestrel from Sydney, went to prove that the conduct of Capt. Beauvais towards his crew was not different from what they had witnessed on board other vessels in which they had sailed as passengers, and that it was as kind and considerate as was consistent with their relative positions. All the defendants were committed by the Magistrate to the gaol, there to remain until the Kestrel left the port. -
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 93, 20 June 1846, Page 3
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338POLICE OFFICE. June 18, 1846. Before H. ST. HILL, ESQ., P. M. New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 93, 20 June 1846, Page 3
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