MR EICHARDT IN REPLY.

Cromwell Argus, Volume VI, Issue 304, 8 September 1875, Page 6

MR EICHARDT IN REPLY.

To the Editor of the Cromwell Argus. Sir,—You have allowed your Queenstown correspondent to impute to me actions that I was not guilty of performing. I am not much given to writing to newspapers, being a man desirous to conduct nay hotel in a businesslike manner, without fusa I cannot, however, allow all his unfounded assertions to pass uncontradicted. His statements are so put as to have a slight color of truth running through a portion of them, but he so represents my conduct in a business light as to make it appear one of foolishness, and it is further imputed that I am so imbecile as to bo the tool of designing advisers, X l lii» ia alto*

gether false. The letter he alludes to, that ap peared in the Mail, was written in iny own house; written at my own dictation, and under no advice, as he states ; written certainly by no one connected in any way with the Wahatip Mail, and by one who never sent any of those " low class of letters" complained of to that journal. Thia denial should be sufficient for all purposes. Indeed Ido not care to deal with your imaginative correspondent at aIL I addresa my reply to you, Sir, the Editor of a respectable journal, and as to one who in this case of mini has been undoubtedly imposed upon. The state, menc " that tenders for the banquet might be construed to mean for the ball as well," and that a sub-committee waited upon me in reference to this, and that I replied, " The charge will be for the banquet only," is untrue. It is equally un. true that I "was asked, to take the tickets at the door so as to save the Committee some trouble." A committee did wait upon me, but they did not ask me to take tickets at the door, or anything of the kind. They wanted to drive a better bargain with me than my written tender ottered. It was this : Would 1 charge for persons to whom tickets were sold, but who did not attend the banquet or the ball ? I consented not to do so, believing.that the. affair was likely to be a first-class and remunerative affair, instead of the losing one, to me, it has proved. Thu» the statement of your correspondent is again untrue. As a fact, I have had to force a settle, merit by a threat of legal proceedings. The - money due me was only paid yesterday, nearly a month after the affair had come Off. Then the Committee asked me to "split" the difference in half for those attending the ball only. Even to this I consented. Those who attended the ball only had therefore music, supper, refreshment* at an advantage, but at my expense. Another deduction was even made from the amount *.9 passed by the Committee, to which I will not refer, as it is not mentioned in your correspondent's letter. - • ........ L Thus yon will see upon which side "the mil. takes" really, laid. I have been compelled to write this letter to vindicate my character, as a business man, though I do not care to have to write at all upon such matters to the Press. -I am, &c, A LBKRT EiCHJIRDX. Eichardt's Hotel, Qneenstown, September 3, 1875.