AN EXPLANATION.

Clutha Leader, Volume III, Issue 131, 12 January 1877, Page 6

AN EXPLANATION.

N EXPLANATION . .TO.THE EDITOR.., '.'

.Slßj-T- 1 Tour last week's issue 'gives a tolerably fair and full' report of our annual ' Caledoniati games— if you wili kindly allow me. to slightly qualify this assertion v / Justice to whom justice is due is at all times to be commended, aiid is generally given in your able' columns. "ißiit .one or two peculiaritiesoccur in -^thereporfc referred to, . which, with- your permission,. I "wiU'"now rectify. :'• : . -..>*.; „-,. . .

- * In the first place, some one, oh the.grouud should have informed , your, reporter that,_ in ad-. . ditionto the teapot-given by r '.Messrs .Briscoe and Co j Dunedin,- as a.prize, ahosfc'of elegant trifles/; including • a lady 's ' Workbox;' four, writing cases. : furnished' complete, 1 f onr -or 'five' boxes of -'paints,- -** half a dozen pocket-knives, etc. -etc., were hand--somely given'; by Messrs Hislop, '."stbfekeepers/i Balclutha, " All/these' were 1 Eagerly striven/ -foi, ■ .and in .- due bourse f o'utfll, .their ' 'yfiyf r into' ihe : hands-.of-.the .various winners,' '.Mas'euline.or femi- J ! nine; , . ; "\"V"a}-epa,is also^^'ndej-'a'j sense of ooligatiori"' to Messrs .for jtheir, preyipus. contributions ' :to the; jhappiness , of , the] school children _*' at '■ the ■Christmas picnic,>-in jtherway. ql|;,a-.Bimjlar.ben4fif'* ! of jgbod; things-; frdm theit ;S.tore j iandj.'^.'-Qn.o? deeply interested j in alhthati.contributes/tp; jfihei welfare of -young people/I gladly, recognise theirs loudness? A.~ry!'Aoi>\ ?M) .vtA'.--;-;.--.^"-'^'.-'/-! The Other case is perhaps a little more serious.

' Mr ' Christie isdesenbed 1 as being ," in liis element among the youngster's, quite as much as in keep-' ing thej unruly members* of the Glutha 'District;-' Road Board ! in order!" "T quite undetetahd-th'e ground *ybi.V have' f or' ■■ tli-i '■ latter' part of tho* re-' ■ imark, but permit me as Chairman'dt' Ithe*!Bb*trd"1 the* ! Bb*trd" to say that through/dot a.-.twayears? intercourse;with onertx'cepti'onal instance' on the. part of, but., one individual,, I. hay.c eyer .found r the .merabisrs" of the Roar^ ,to ,behaye r as .gentlemen. Eespect for those members induces me /to request .you to" insert these few liiiesi— i am,' &.c.,'"' ' '.'' '''A A ' '-, y, 'A „ 7 WiLLiAii' Christie. "7 ' " ' l< eithmwe, Warepa,' Jan*. 9 A l ß77 A' " ' ' '" I* ; -A..A A : ! a-'- ' -yA AA A r A-\y ■" /.'