THE SHIPPING AND SEAMEN'S ACT.

Otago Witness, Issue 2085, 8 February 1894, Page 35

THE SHIPPING AND SEAMEN'S ACT.

Wellington, February 5. In the Police Court William Donald, master of the barquentinfc Linda Weber, was charged) under section 297 of the Whipping and Seamen's Act, with having brought an Indian cook named Peter Sidt to the colony and lefb him destitute. Counsel on behalf of the Indian said that his client lived at Rarotonga, where he had a wife and family. On the Linda Weber calling at the island the informant was engaged as cook, and he understood from the captain on signing the articles that he would be taken back to his homo at the end of the voyage, but instead of that he was paid off at Wellington along with the rest of the crew. He was, however, allowed by thi ciptain to stay on board the vessel for two months, in case the vessel might return to Rarotonga. For the defence the facts were admitted, excepting that the informaii 1 ; did not live at Rarotonga, but on an island adjoining belonging to the British Government. It was contended that, as the informant was not an alien, but a British subject, the. provision in the act did not apply ; and if it did apply to an inhabitant of British India, it was only in case that the subject was left destitute, and this man could not be said to have been left destitute, because he had £6 4s when he was paid off, and^had been kept on board the vessel for two months afterward. His Worship, in giving judgment, said so far as he could see at present the provision as regards sending foreign seamen back to the place where they were shipped did not apply to Indians, as they were British subjects. The information was therefore dismissed.

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