RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XV, Issue 896, 12 June 1861, Page 4

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Tuesday, June 4th. (Before H. G. Gouland, Esq., R.jj.) BEFBACTOBY SEAMEN. John M'Donald was brought up on n charged with continued disobedience ofT^' commands by the master of the brie- V v ful Lassie. ori S Duncan M'Kellar said —I am ma f vessel, and shipped prisoner at NewcSl t th-e months to any port of Australia or New j On Sunday I went on board and found fl^mate and carpenter washing decks- TbJi!u ef the crew had refused to do the work and X T prisoner was ringleader He refused to workl I ordered him j two others also refund T^u U gave orders that they should be nnf «« £ V hen water. Prisoner had behaved badly taking &nd tage of his being the only English ?L"T crew. He behaved insolent/to m e on T g,the to which I drew the mate's attention all hands to the pump only twotentme' 6 * Prisoner made a rambling statement about th. captain behaving with cruelty to a man o n board but which had no reference to his own case ' Committed and sentenced to imnrisnnrvJ _ •„ hard labor for four weeks. im Pusont»enfc with Joseph Martin, a foreigner, and one of the crew alluded m the above case, was chared k_ r n 7 McKellar with being absent *^SSfi-&_"{_ ship and refusing to return. ' ls The man, who had been present during the progressof the last case, refused in answ°er to^e magistrate to return to his ship c Convicted and sentenced to be imprisoned in weeks Pto hafd lab°^r for fow