WELLINGTON, Last Night.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1696, 19 May 1883, Page 2

WELLINGTON, Last Night.

, A meeting is to be held on Monday to take the initiative, steps to form a woollen fatitory in Wellington. It is proposed to form a company with: £100,000 in £5 shares., ;v , , t , , . ( In a few days a portion of the Government printing office will be lighted by electricity. , U?he trjal of light will be made on Tuesday next^. ' ' " x 1 In Chambers to-day, judgment was gweiviu I^erwn ijYiUi&roapY, tlie Qaom.

I'd his/^aa? t an action to recover damages jtjhcOugh thejsteamer "YYestport staking a jsnj^v^hile ''loading coal at Westport. tTh^jprooeedings in this case was on a, Ipetftion^f right issues of fact Joined ;b^|wpen suppliant and Crown,*>an& were. ,tricK l?s^"a special jury at Nelson iff 'December* last, when the issnes as: lameddfccf'at trial were answered ill favor" speaking, of the suppliant, snd damages M'ero assessed at the full sum claimed (£1500). The present motion jvag on, behalf of thajcsuofldcjit, either to'enter judgment !for t^p. res^dndent on "the issue founder ;or a'*new trial. The rule was dischanred~with costl, the Court giving their reason at great length for deciding against the respondent and in favor of the supplicant. In connection with the recent fire a,t the,Waihenga Hotel, Edward Tolley 1 has been arrested on a charge of arson, aud taken before a J.P., and admitted to t bail.