TELEGRAMS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3214, 1 June 1871, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

Lyttelton : 315t— 12.50 ,'p.m., Ahuriri, from Wellington. Biotp: 31st — Daylight, Tararua, from Melbourne. Napiee : 30tk— 6.30 p.m., Rangatira, from Wellington; Wanganui : 315t— 6.30 a.m., Wanganui, from Wellington. The ketch Amateur left yesterday for Opu Date with a cargo of telegraph material and stores. The "barque Canaille will sail to-day for Newcastle, N.S.W., for a cargo of coals for Mr Dranßfield. The ship Golden Sea, of 1500 tons, is shortly expected at Dunedin from China with a number of Chinese passengers. At the Small Debt Court— Sheriff Galbraith presiding — George Sanger Broomielaw, as asfijgnee of Peter Kennoy, seaman, late of the chip Zambeze, sued Kerr, Newton and Co., Glasgow, for £3, being the sum due to the said seaman under a seaman's advance note. Mr Smith, law clerk, appeared for defenders, and pleaded that the seaman had not fulfilled the stipulations of the note— that he had deserted the vessel, and therefore forfeited any TPOges. The pursuer stated that the seaman had obtained liberty from the captain to leave the vessel. The seamen deponed that the yesBel, having become leaky and umeaworthy, returned to the port of Belfast, where the whole oftheseamen had the option given them of either remaining by the vessel or of leaving altogether, and they had their discharge from previous vessela given up to them, bufc they j did not get any discharge from this vessel. Ihe Sheriff: In these advance noteß the terms are very explicit. The seaman was bound to remain in the ship, but the option was given him either of remaining or leaving. He said himself he accepted the latter, and accordingly left. His Lordship therefore held he was not entitled to succeed in his action under tho note, the seaman not having remained with the ship, and accordingly assoilzied defenders, the seaman still having recourse against the owners for wagea earned.