Shipping.

Colonist, Volume II, Issue 124, 28 December 1858, Page 2

Shipping.

. -, ENTERED INWARDS. ."■ ' December 24.—Ta.-manian Maid, steamer, 90, Whit-well,-from Wellington via Wairau. PassengersMessrs. Stone, Cameron, Bowler, Empson, Ralston, Snow, Mr. and Mrs Richmond and child. Miss Seymour and child, .Mrs. Redwood, Mrs.. Gpulter, Miss Hall, Mr. and Mrs. Harp, and 3 in the steerage.' . i December 24.—Supply, cutter, 26, Walker, from Collingwood. . ■ , Decemher 25.—Tasinanian.: Maid, steamer, 90, Whitwell, from Collingwood and Motueka. : December 27.—Burnett, brig, 137, Scaplehorn, from Wellington. Passengers—Messrs. Rrill, Hank, Stack, and Fisher. ENTERED OUTWARDS. December 24.—Tasmanian Maid,. steamer, 90, Whitwell, for. Motueka and Collingwood. December 27.—Tasmanian Maid, steamer, 90, Whitwell, for an excursion, to Croixelles and French Pass. ..■..' ■ IMPORTS. - Per Tasmanian Maid, from Wellington via Wairau.;: 4 casks ale, 8 cases pickles, Order. : Per Supply, from Colling wood: 4 casks ale, 16 empty casks, Order; 90 ozs. gold, Walker. : Per Burnett, from Wellington: 100 bags sugar, Edwards; 1 case toys, 1 do stationery, Jackson; H'do.' saddlery, Jones; 48 children's chairs, NasOv and Scaife ; 2^ tons iron, 8 cedar boards, 10 bales turnery, Scaplehorn; 8 cases 1 package drugs, Prichard; 2 parcels, Jackson; 1 case. The Southern Ceoss.—Captain Mourilyan, the master of the ship Southern Cross, from New Zealand, appeared before Mr. Yardley, lately, to answer the claim of a seaman named James Gordon, who claimed a balance of £50, though the balance actually due was £64, but he had .reduced his claim to jgso to bring the case within the jurisdiction of the magistrate. The defendant went out as chief mate of the ship, and succeededto the command: in the course of the voyage. The complainant originally shipped at £3 per month, and on the arrival of the ship at Wellington, (New Zealand) several men deserted, and to keep the others on board, it was agreed that the others should receive £6 10s. per month, and an endorsement to that effect was made upon the articles of agreement, and certified by the Comptroller of Customs —The defendant repudiated the new agreement made by his predecessor, and £3i only was offered to the complainant.—For the defendant it was contended that the second agreement was void and of no effect, not only an immoral one, but contrary to public policy. There was no consideration for the new agreement The compltiinant, with others, shipped for i'd per month for the whole voyage,-and theych'aracter of the voyage had not been changed. If such an agreement was ratified, it would be of no use for masters and seamen to mutually agree for a certain rate of wages in England.—Mr. Yardley said the decision of Lord Ellenborough in a case very much resemblingthis was conclusive. He could not, with.; thatj and other decisions of the judges before him, come to any other conclusion than that the new agreement, made at Wellington was not binding on the parties. He could not give effect to the ■ new agreement, and order the extra wages claimed. .The agreement, was entered into by a former captain, but the present one, of course, took upon himself the contracts of his predecessor, as far as they were le^al. He very much regretted it was necessary for the owner to repudiate the agreement entered into with the seamen in New Zealand. lie did not like such a mode of p ayirig' fast and loose with sailors. He thought it would be politic as well as liberal to give the complainant something as a gratuity. The former captain proposed the new agreement, and good faith should be kept with seamen.—The defendant said that the wages had been increased from £2 LOs. to 43 per month, at the commencement of the voyage, on condition that the men remained by the ship all the voyage He w^s instructed by his owner to resist the demand for extra wages, and he could not pay^ the complainant anything.—Mr. Yardley: I am son-y it was necessary to induce the men to stick by the ship by such a trick as this, to get them to sign new articles, and enter into an agreement it was never intended to carry out It is not a straightforward proceeding in any point ot view, and one very much to be deplored. I dismiss the summons for the reasons I have stated, but I think it would have been much.more creditable for both owner and captain if the case had never been brought into Court.—The sum of £34, the balance admitted by the defendant, whs then paid to the complainant.— Mitchell's Maritime Register. The commission appointed by the Sydney Government to enquire into the alleged recent frauds on the Revenue and mismanagement of the.Customs Department, have already examined upwards of thirty witnesses, and have sat eleven days. An abstract of the evidence has been published in the Herald, which paper remarks:—" The chief direction of the questions put by the Board has ben (1), Respecting the suspicious circumstances under which the schooner Louisa, 74 tons, King,..master, on or about the 2nd of September last, sailed from Port Jackson, having cleared for New Caledonia with a cargo of dutiable articles, taken from five different Bonded Stores iii Sydney; and also (in intimate relation to the foregring) the circumstances under'which that same vessel (having returned to Port Jackson on the 7th October, in bal-, "last) again cleared'from; Sydney to the Spilth" Sea I«-----lands,-via' Newcastle, on the Bth of October—the very,. day after her return to port:—(2), Respecting the equally extraordinary circumstances under which about thirty-seven tons of sugar were illegally landed out of a ship named the Fanny Fisher, discharging cargo in this port in December last year:—and (3), Respecting the loose, irregular, and improper manner in which the ordinary business of the departmerit^-as regards the exportation, the importation, and the transfer of dutiable goods,—has been generally conducted." The general tenor of the evidence is to sustain the accusations implied in the above queries, particularly the latter.. . ."■'.. • From the Argus, we learn thus :-^The annual intercolonial cricket match is announced to come off at Sydney in January next, before or immediately after the 26th, on which day public rejoicings are always hold, as the anniversary of the foundation of the colony of New South Wales. The Victorian players are already practising for this contest, and the most likely men to be selected are those prominent in the matches. , 4i The astonishing feat of walking 1000 miles in 1000 consecutive hours is now_ being performed at the Olympic Theatre, Melbourne, by Allan M'Kean. He walks at a quarter before every even'hour, and a quarter after. The shortest time occupied by him in walking a mile was at ten o'clock on Tuesday night, when he acomplished the distance in eight minutes forty seconds. A landlady of a public house in Melbourne, received a severe blow in the face whilst endeavoring to separate two quarrelsome men in her house. Two days; after she became so ill that she. had to goto the doctor. As she was retaining, she fainted in the street. She was conveyed home, and died in five minutes. The man who struck her has been committed to take his trial for manslaughter.

BIRTH. DrSHER.—On Sunday, December 26th, at Richmond, Mrs. Disher, of a son. MARRIED. WOODFIOUSE—WALKER.—At the Wesleyan Chap'd, Hardy-street, by ihe Rev. J Warren, Mr. J. Woodhouse, of Nelson, to Elizabeth Walker, of Waimea West. DIED. PERCY.—On the 27tH instant, aged 3 years and 8 months, John James, the beloved son of John Percy, of this town.