WELLINGTON.
March 10. Four hundred and eighty-six souls arrived in Wellington during the year ending June 30 last. One of the Warwick's crew was charged to-day before the Magistrate with being twice found asleep on the voyage while on look-out duty. He was sentenced to four weeks imprisonment. The man pleaded that he had been forty-eight hours without sleep, but the magistrate could nob allow that to influence him, as the sailor, by his negligence, endangering the lives of 250 persons. This gave the offence a very grave aspect; if the man had insufficient sleep, he should have appealed to the master of the vessel. Mr. H. Anderson, tli3 editor of the Chronicle threatens an action for libel against the New Zecdander in consequence of a certain letter published in that journal this morning. Sir George Grey and Colonel Whitmore leave for Auckland in the Hinemoa to-night or to-morrow morning.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 647, 11 March 1879, Page 2
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