THE STEAMER FERRET.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6261, 10 December 1881, Page 7

THE STEAMER FERRET.

« A motion - was made before Mr. Justice Cave, the Vacation Judge, in the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice, on October 14, on behalf of the Comite , de<s Assureurs Maritimes against the Standard Bank of British South Africa to restrain the defendant from accepting or otherwise dealing with two bills of exchange for £1500. Mr. Marten, Q.C., in support of the motion, said the ose was a singular one, and related to the steamship Ferret, of Glasgow. The vessel was stolen on the voyage by James Stewart Henderson and her name changed to the Bundad. Henderson took the vessel to the Brazils, and there tojk in a cargo of coffee and cleared the ship for Marseilles and Genoa. On the voyage Henderson again changed the name of the vessel to the India, and took her to Cape Town, where he sold the cargo, and obtained bills of exchange, two of which had come over to this country, and were the bills now in question. It appeared that Henderson had been arrested in Melbourne, where he was now undergoing penal servitude, and the biils of exchange were now claimed by the Sheriff of Melbourne, who had seized them and sent them over to this country under a writ of_/i-/a, at the suit of Mr. John Alexander Sillers, of Glasgow, who traded under the name of Russell and Company. He asked that the interim injunction granted, restraining the defendant dealing with the bills, should be continued until the second motion day in next sitting, and for leave to serve Mr. Sillers with notice of motion. Mr. Kddis, Q.C., for the Bunk, said his only object was to see the money was paid to the proper persons. His lordship ordered the motion to stand over, as I asked, continuing the interim injunction.