A POLITE LETTER WRITER.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 7172, 16 September 1886, Page 2

A POLITE LETTER WRITER.

A SHAREMARKBC LIBEL. On Tuesday, Juno 22ud, in the Q.ieen's Bench, Dublin, an application was in.ide on behalf of Sir lltlph Cusack, DL. (chairman), ml Mr. Mmnsell. D.L. (or>o of the directors), and Mi. Greene (the secretary oftlu Midhnd Great Western Railway Company), tor a ciiminal information for libel a^ahii-t Mr. Tlmnas C. Moore, of Grosvcrnor square, Dablin. Mr. Moore on ilia 16th Mirch wrote to Sir R.ilph Cueack that if every shilling he had paid for i per cent, preference stock over par was not refunded tj him at once ho would " make plain how tin maiket was rurged, and by whom." He enclosed a printed copy of a letter ho had sent to the Bank of New Zealand, aud which was addressed "to tho manager of the misdirectud B.iukof New Zealand, London, "and be;ian: ''Siirah, truly %on :uoa hell-bound swindler, robbur, r.old-blo ided inur lerer. You aud your co-mwdu olora are wi I! met, but the lime has come when, it' the Lbttitedof the realm pmuit such devils incarnate to walk in the broad daylight and hold their heads erect, we must have the Robespierres, B.intoni, Lj nuhc u , uud dytumiters to cloause the Augean stable of the kleptonnnia carriod ou by demo is of jour stamp, notwithstanding that you have thu fourth estate subsidised, and oheat scoundrels like tho proprieloia and editors of the World tell us Hi it tho vilest dobaucheo uud the most gigantic swindlers are jolly companions," Thti (Joint slid it was unnecessary to read nine of this letter. In reply, Air. Greene wrote that the directors declined to hold any communication with a mau who could write such a letter to the manager of Uiu New Zealand Bank, Mr.

Moore replied, statin? that ho would print tho whole correspondence. He also, in a further letter, alleged that the accounts were cooked, that the isauins: oE passes was a great fruud anl robbsry on the proprietor.", that stock to tho amount of £40,000 was kept on hand, while onesixth of the quantity would be sufficient, that the directors and officials pocketed convnission on the purchases, that branch lines have bsen constructed which no one but a thief or a nincompoop would construct, and that the press was subsidised to give partial accounts of the half-yearly meeting. Th<i Court granted the application.