A PROHIBITED IMMIGRANT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 213, 29 August 1908, Page 2

A PROHIBITED IMMIGRANT.

;' PKCILiAIt CAtili li\ LI'TTiiLXOX. < Ji) t'c.egrapli.- l'resa Association. Uinstcliurcii, Lust Ni.niit. , A shipping case of 14 goinoYiial'pecii- , iar nature was' heard at Lytlelton . tus iiioruiijjj. A seaman nanrod Join • Hughes, belonging to the New Zealand snipping Company's steamer Waimatc, was oiiaiged with having absented himsell without leave from the vessel In the course of evidence it'-was stated that while the Wwmalc was at Dunedm luglies had bee, sent to flic Seadm Mental Hospital, owing to mental derailment. Tile ColleeLor of Customs at Hunedin declared (be man to be a prolliibited immigrant, Later on ilic man was discharged from Kcadilf »s cured, ami he came up to Lyttclton, H'sterday, but did not wish to c „ on board Ins vessel. The eo,npa„ v thus Decani., liable lor a bond of ,€JOO, the nmii benig a ],rohibi(ed immigrant, and they Had 1n... arrested and locked up J.n ' l ';'.<'l'a.-Keofabsenlin g ] l imselffroin S , l,' 1 '- V'n m T" y ~" , ' , nwd t(l **' .'."" ; ,n r thl ; "'"P'' ■•'.tides and send !,„„ to England in the lihmitaka, "'"■' l-'JVs «'oll.n«lo :l to-,no,r< W >" he 5i,,,,,,,,,,, milsl(M . a( Lyt(o|i()]l (dipt. Jlarciel) was iinab],. |„ si , n Hiiglies oil. as he was a prohibited in.the case was remanded until to-morrow. '|] l( , oonipanv jn |]|( , meanlime is coiiimunicath,,, Vith u I ol.mial Secretary, with the o-bject of trying 0 arrange to get the man sailed oil ; ,nd sent l„ E Dg , nni , il( I;