LIBEL ACTION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4759, 28 June 1894, Page 3

LIBEL ACTION.

- WEf,HNoToN,Wednesday. '- fle Oreyillo-Gwjgili onso resumed HPfe•'"• to ' lla yi : wheu-thd: plaintiff .was the Witiioss' (/ailed. ■•• He 1 'deposed ■«#Jjti ll syiyi^' lde: visits to MS <s^^p about 0 "' uild thbyiwere ■§p;^ :^mm £lQpqr,,dE2oo short,'that Bip^Mv-fpto» raattev.of, opinion., He tlib.'North, .Waimrapa P*.;§''!• ■■'•7 i W l >>"% Conncil-lmd instituted inP' s?.* Wries re the road, and ho had been p:,-:-i hadideclincd |k; »''•: WP proseht'ease" LaH been--de ■ '■: Ho > nic(J that ho had told ■iv: the Tuijis.that the |*\ :• ■■ :,«*■"• Hd" wai'-W-aWious k"'" :: :;: f^ 01 ' 1 A«'o case, h, Vbiit 1 •desired to- have his character kjjlg.., o.i.JCleMBd.-' Ho lmcl offered to comproMm: ;>.m.imise ,if tlio Star would insert a re|P, ;a-V'v : taction^'iHid.pay £100: to the P|:;; ; ,S^Jj 1 ; H P s l»* nl . |mt, the ■:offer ■flh^ij^Ayji^i l '! Engineer, G, and J, CorV, ,;,, Mm, formerly,a ; contractoiywcro m .[.tils? ; . examined, jfclio tenor of thoir ■ -.;• evidenco being that the roadsiworo W '.■:' ' " ■ Thisctocliuiedplftintifi'scnso, « •i'-' -■ '■' ! THEMimxeK. ■■"'.; Mr Pow'nall then opened the case for the diSfendant.' Hisiiist witness -1. ~.;,, wasH..A:,Lambert, shecpfarmer of ~:; fdli'Mloj., lii tlio course oNiis .(OTidencd ho said that ho saw the Mangaone and Pah Valley Road ■■'■• works when in progress. They were ...•: earned -on very •indifferently. He ! " ' saw thb' Pah Valley Road Lines wheir they were first eommonccd, , ; Jqiew .where , the : pegs were, nnd noticed the deviations made. ; The |: • : , -alterations.were in a direction where I tn .f e was less cutting, and thus gave < aspfter road; At one very bad bond v ' tlie side cutting had been built up , with .large rocks of papa, and the ..earth was apt to tumble down. The ;■'•.' filling of tlio road pff insufliciont, ;v The drains iverotlfc chief source of | "MHunplaintj ' were quite inadci l' c coM SCB n0 out,ofs ' *•• _l^^ e^f l out ft drain to relieve M stagnant water. Tho batter p of the sidelings was, speaking p . generally, /insufficient. 'He had g-. 'asked Mr Greviilo to get a sly m~"~ got the contract,, ■ to go I conversation with him; when he told E , Greville that the work was not being $ .cawied out satisfactorily., Greville |V ..< told him he would seb that 'it, was, I and then there was allusion mado to I tlio culverts, ono' of wliiclv Qvevillo •' mentioned was 1. feet short. This I would save the contractors £7, but they would havo to do more cutting by way •of Compensation. Did not know the defendant 1 in this action. Regarding the' approaches to tlio ' lla'ugaone'Bridge, the latter was a foot to 18 inched higher than tho ,' road, Somepno had filled the hole with a log to.get horses over, while at the other side the formation than the bridge j .... Tho lnmp ; had never,been rombved, { He' noticed timber in tho embankI ments; it was built up with rootß I 'and thb-eartirthro\vrioverit, Ho ||V, ' only.reaebtlio avticlo last Monday, it to mean that plaintiff! had hot been done. There a slight depression on the culHits, caused by insiiilicient tilling, \ The witness' ivns cross-examined , at considerable length by Mr K Edwards, < ' "William Joseph Aiiiaboldi^ianogei * i, foi the. last witness, deposed that he >■ complained fbout : the. roads, which r "" ho saw in course of constraction.Thc work was not carried out properly | 1 thd centre pegs were not always followed, and the deviations, instead ol being an .improvement, were detrimental! •The'cni'vcs wore inadc sharper; the .embankments : contained ' rotten; timber, - covered ovei ■\Mtli earth. Ono of tlio biggest culverts on the llangaone road was packe&upat the sides with old, timbeiywhich was now covered by tlie embankment, and not openly visible On the' Pah Valley Road there wai an old bridge, the timber of which he had never seen removed. One o; the logs was showing, in tho roac ~ formatjon, and at anothpr spot rood v wore showing in the ombankment He had complained to Mr Grevilli r l about the state of tho road and tin "' dnins, which were not adequato t( | ut tako,tl*-Mter'off, It ran over tin t " .Joiidin'twoplaces.. luone locality ||— ~ " the water r-aa underneath tho cul- ;, -vert instead of through it. Was not 1 intimate with cither tlie plaintiff or ,-." defendant, and was iudopendant of i,' both of them, Did not think after 'J.* reading the article in tlie Mar, that <£ * it imputcdany bribeiy or corruption \ to,the plaintiff, T \ 1 1 Tho Court then adjourned until || 10 o'clock this morning, \ ;•[; WEi/Mxoi'OX, Thursday, t Most of tho' forenoon was occupied in the cross-oxamination and rei|| examination of A. Arnaboldi. He said |s, that the timber showed through the ,' foraation and it would not have been \ irapossible.to;prevent this, had Greville properly looked after tho work. If the earth had been thrown i over the timber during Greville's , absence, he cpuld not shggest hpw • 'i hp cpuld have" at the ; '"> ' bridge, -The stringers and. logs showed np from eight to 10 inches at i , J[angaone Bridge, I I at on*|id and a rise at, the other, 7 left like this lifter the contract had been completed, About IH eighteen inches of filling; had IJI to-bo drawn, subsequently. PosM biblyiktho contractor had done |l tlus/flfe. large amount of tilling I had to ne dono subsequently. ; PosI I sibly tho contractor bad done a large m amount of filling, and there might I have been a subsidence. Had never I been water oh' the deck of the bridge, I and had made a special examination H v for traces of it, but saw none, j H John King, surveyor, of Pahiatua,' H . deposed that,he made an.cxaniinaH "<* 14th of the work H in question, at the request of defenH' dant! The' result of such examination H - '' led him to believe that the work had Hp; v:', ; not ken carried out in accordance ii;'"' with' the original plans and specif!This witnessjs^still pderoxami■:Ay nation, last all day. '•^'^\i' I 'K a l^™n * ijotpp jfoi'the; conv'tract/a'neVwere not Bufficionttocairy WiofM ■ ;^ie wfttclv ' '■ rlic meant n bi say ih'at shorten-. ! Was'Oertnihly a! saying, j ; h|d ; Kihjelf,laid,put the Mount