FIREMEN PLAY UP.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1591, 7 November 1912, Page 4

FIREMEN PLAY UP.

,'■.'•-. v: ':''l;':::;; : '- TROUBLES OP SHIP'S C|g>TA;lN..; Yesterday morning tlie/prospects wpre": that,the day would be; an.eventful/Pne iibpard .the steamer E&kaiav .-.'.■.' .' On Tuesday s.eyen of;tfip ! .ste.ani6r's firemen absented, th'eniselv;es" : ;f.r6in';:the.vessel without leaVP./and this /delayed; her de--.pasture. ' 'The • the Court yesterday.'ttdniihgV ''ail sentencPd .tp 'forty-eight. hoursV ; inipfis.o&. nicnt, aiid /ordered ■to /be'' .plaped; aboard i the. ■:;was:' ; wai.tiug ; ;'si.ble, '-.this.'meint"that:;theyTw - ere:dispatch- : . pd-:tp the.; ship right: away,'.»-""''' V; : ;,'The disaffected, p'nes had ■.'been.. .engaged .at'SydnejT, bf"' : them."Sa.id that.:.thei'r reaspri/Sfbr:.leiyingl' the Sakaja;: was ; that, .they" h'&d .disco'yeted. a, ''scab"' ; on' board,. ' . "''.'. . , It was., thought by somp'that .thp men might Tomam obdurate,: and that.ji. consequence wPuld b'pthp 'return bf thp vessel to port thp. satne day, .jt:.was....stated, that the.Paptwn.'had Said':tih'at,theMi had ' •been a. fight a day on th;e-. way. ; p.ver,'."au'd it was remembered that Piie!'-.of. ! :tlie ; 'inen had remarked.'from"' the/dock "that the R'abaia would ';' However,' the ■ skipper pip'tessed ii ap'ter-; ■rrtinatiph to' get. up' : . ehp.iigh-."steam tp,' '''Crawl outside"the■ Heads":./'ThisSv.aiinierpreted to'mean that h'e;'was. put.thp.fire'iiiei'in the position:' of*wpr.king with mutiny on the high,/seas,.'/aVph'arge which oaU be uia'dfi, undpfcoertainpircuui-■ stances, when, a,' Vessel has; sailed'three. Enites out, For-an.■.pffeuce'■.pfrtlio'.kind al--luded to the men would'be■iiable'.to., iiii^: prispnn'icnt' for pnp year;; , T-he-iskipiper; Jiad obtained a cqp;y of the Act; .arid this., lip. was to read to. his.; firem.c'tf,' ;,ih. order to make. their position : ,.c'!:ear to. ■ ''Lead; kindly ligliti" remarked .prio./'bf .the seven' to tlie:policeman'.who:led flip, way from ■iambton" Qiiajr-.Station ,fo. the., cabs Which, took them'"all/to/the' Perry Wharf.. They.wß^/putVabtJard,'the ICi>.« raki, and token'.but, .to'the. Eakaia.';,.,and., (contrary' to'the'fears;' »'6f. those, concerned), the Eakaia .had. nPt';'pu't ; ba.ck late'.la'st-li;!|ht. ~.; . ■ ■"'■ '[.:;■