TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.
♦ ! [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] [PBE BBKBS ASaoOIAtlOlT.] WEIMKaTON, April 10. Mr Martin Kennedy, M.H.K , who haa purchased the Luna, is endeavour* ing to make arrangements with the anthorities for landing and storing West Coast coal either on the new reclamation ground or a temporal jetty to be run 00 from the brejfetwork. He is willing to pay the same wharfage as he would if he berthed his vessel at Queen's Wharf,. He estimates that if a sttrging 200 feet square could be run out from the breastwork be could supply West Coast coal in Wellington far cheaper than Newcastle coals coulu 1 be landed for, while it would pay his vessels to take back cargoes of goods from Wellington to Greymouth at so cheap a rate that it would pay the West Coast towns just •• well to import from Wellington as from Melbourne. Dtjnbdin, April 10. An_ official enquiry will be held thic morning in reference to the Taranaki having s rucl; oq Shag ttoe 1 .
The railway line is about to be continued from Balclutha bridge up to the township. I 'J'hurtport that Sir F. Dillon Bell is to natiWa seat iv the Upper House is gainidMcurroncy.
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Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 1, 11 April 1877, Page 2
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199TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 1, 11 April 1877, Page 2
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