§ MR. HAVELOCK WILSONI beg to ask Mr. Attorney-General if he can state by what legal process British stevedores, who discharged and reloaded the steamship "Silvia" (owned by Germans, and registered in Hamburg) on 11th February 1899, in mid-stream, St. George's Stairs, Horselydown, can recover a portion of the wages due to them for such work, the master of the vessel (a German subject) refusing to pay, and British agents of the said owners denying all liability?
§ THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir R. WEBSTER,) Isle of WightThe remedy of the stevedores is by proceeding against the person by whom they were employed. The Question does not state the facts sufficiently to enable me to express any opinion as to who the employers were, but I have little doubt that they will be able to recover in the County Court against the persons engaging them.
§ MR. HAVELOCK WILSONThe man who employed them was a German subject.
§ SIR R. WEBSTERHe can be sued here.