A THRILLING VOYAGE

Grey River Argus, 2 March 1908, Page 1

A THRILLING VOYAGE

•Covering* the crew with heavy revolvers from the bridg c 0 f the ship, the captain .and under officers of the steamer Lonsdale, forced the entire crew to walk forward, one by one, to a certain spot where each was securely bound (states a telegram from Mexico City in the Vancouver World of Decern ber 26th). Thus a mutiny was nipped iv the bud. i'he Lonsdale is one of the Mexican Pacific liners, 'and plies between Canadian and Western coastpoints, touching at Vancouver. She was on the high seas near here when the officers, noting the surliness of the crew and hearing ominous mutterings that betokened approaohng mutiny, decided td bring the trougle 'to a sudden head.

Knowing that, if taken by surprise, they would b e by force of .numbers, the officers quietly prepared a quantity of rope and then mounted th c bridge, and before the surprised crew were aware of what was happening, they found gleaming barrels pointing down in their midst, and a stentorian voice rang out a challenge But the crew armed only, with crude weapons, threw up their * hands and walked to the bridge, and one by one was securely bound. _\V.Hen the" last sailor had been stowed out of harm's way th c ship was steered to the port of Salina Cruz. Avhere the captives were handed over to the port authorities.

| Speaking* of the cash system, which has now been given a six weeks 5 trial, ?T< l0 o C n h k T + u (sa^ the Gisborne •Times') stated that it proved all ri^ht to the bakers, and appeared tq °b€ giving every satisfaction. Sometimes it was .a little awkward if a person did not have change, "but on the whole it worked very well. Hts gre^t benefit to the bakers lies in the fact that there ar no book debts at all, and they have the satisfaction of knowing* tirit very loaf of bread that left the shoo was paid for, saving endless w o rk in the matttr of book-keeping. All seem to be treating it as a matter of course opposition having almost disappeared' and the people are falling into lino with the new order of things One feature Is that it makes a man live within lus means