["Intercolonial", The Brisbane Courier (Qld.), Tuesday 26 August 1884, page 5]

INTERCOLONIAL

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.]

NEW SOUTH WALES.

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SYDNEY, August 25.

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Wm. Harrison, boatswain of the ship Bospherous, has been sentenced to two months' hard labour by the Newcastle bench for a cowardly assault on David Barrow, the chief officer of the vessel. The prisoner was recently the ringleader of a serious mutiny on board the barque Verulam.

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