AN EXPLANATION.

Evening Star, Issue 3303, 20 September 1873, Page 3

AN EXPLANATION.

To the Editor. Sir,— l find on fuller inquiry that in my letter of 28th August, I fell unwittingly into a slight mistake. It was not in the hospital, out in another public institution, and sometime ago, that a man was prematurely placed in the dead-house. The <mgujpatanpe, hftweyer, that thp subject pf this grim joke was recently an inmate of the hospital, and spoke once and again to several of the patients of his wonderful trance expe. riences misled my informant, and scores besides, as to the locality of the strange incident. But apart from the mere- accidents of time and place, the fact is indubitable and incontrovertible that a man who was not dead was transferred to the deadhouse in one of our public institutions —in that one, too, where, of all others, vigilance and care are most demanded ; and this shows the urgent necessity there exists for a thorough investigation into the management of these institutions. It was solely with this view that I mentioned the circumstance at all in that letter, which I was obliged, in self-vindication, to write against the so-called Medical Association in Dunedin.—Yours truly, Henry Sorley, M.D. Dunedin, September 20.

To the Editor. g lß> —My attention has been drawn to a letter in your paper copied from the Waikouati Herald and dated from Christchurch, August 28, making malicious and uncalled-for remarks regarding myself and another for voting in favor of the removal of K. Reay’s disqualification, viz., Ist. in stating it was done in a sneaking manner ; 2nd, that it was to get R. Keay’s horses away from the meeting; and 3rd, accusing the Christchurch Jockey Club with having written to the Dunedin J. Club a gross untruth in stating that K. Reay had borne * gbod character for eighteen years. In refill to the first remark 1 am ftbl ® to state that the question was brought forward before a very full meeting of the committee, there being ten out of twelve members pre-

sent, who all voted one way or the other. Secondly, that immediately after the March meeting I signed a petition with several others, and advocated for various reasons that the disqualification of R. Reay be removed. As to Keay’s horses proceeding to Melbourne or not, it is too absurd to suppose it would materially affect the chances of ray horses, as 1 truly believe there are bettor horses at Christchurch than any he possesses. Thirdly, as fo whether the Christchurch Jockey Club have knowingly stated to the Dunedin Jockey Club au untruth, I must leave between the Club and the writer.

With regard to Mr R. H. Campbell, I can confidently state that he had no influence whatever in commanding a single vote for or against the removal of the disqualification of R. Reay, and if he has stated otherwise it is a gross misrepresentation. —I am. Ac. , J. W. Hutchison. Dunedin, Sept. 19,