WELLINGTON.

Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 50, 11 April 1877, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

Tuesday. Charles Hillsden, custodian for the Theatre Co., and business manager for lessees, brought a criminal action for libel against a person named Powell, who was formerly connected with the theatre, for having written an annonymous letter to one of the Public Hall Directors, m which he insinuates that the Directors of the Company, and lessees of theatre were being defrauded by Hillsden. The case was heard before the R. M., and Powell who reserved his defence, was committed for trial at the next criminal sittings of the Supreme Court. Martin Kennedy, M.H.R., who purchased the Luna, is endeavoring to make arrangements with tfye authorities for landing and storing West Coast coal either on the new reclamation or on a temporary jetty to be run out from the the breastwork. He is willing to pay the same wharfage as he would if he berthed his vessel at the. Queen's wharf. He estimates that if a staging about 200 feet square could be run out from the breastwork he could supply West Coast coals m Wellington far cheaper than Newcastle coals possibly could be landed for, while it would pay his vessels to take back cargoes of goods froni Wellington to Greymouth at so cheap a rate that it would pay the West Coast towns just as well to import from Wellington as fi'om Melbourne. Tenders for the extension of the Queen's Wharf are advertised for. The plans have been submitted to several engineers and approved of. The tenders are for widening main wharf and. extension of Ts. The job will cost fully twenty thousand pounds.