AN EXPLANATION.

Evening Star, Issue 3459, 24 March 1874, Page 3

AN EXPLANATION.

, ,To the. fiditor. ' Sir, —Noticing night’s issue ■ that I was, by a meeting of we Invercargill, Jockey Club, diiqualibed from ever running! any at t,hat..plub, I,beg jtq,submit to| you my explanation td* the "‘ Southland Times ’ of the 12th March, which I would) like you to insert in support of myself.—l! .atfa,<ik6},o O .?{ <1 TK { W VX7. j Wm. Lawson, Invercargill. ) Dunedin, March 17, ! Sir, —My absence from Invercargill has pro- j vented my uoaCQf.of ht which, 1 though personal, has yet become public pro- i perty. It was to the effect that the gentlemen I calling themselves theTfivercargill Jockey Club i had disqualified me from again running horses: in district,, k affepfe iummjetion. I Not satisfied tee'&R6 J Mftdo hse! of the telegraphic wires to make known at j Switzers, where I racing, that ; they had arrived 'at that sapient decision. I ; trust sir, you will allow me to make a plain [ statement, 1 > although my own opinion is pretty clear that it is ■ generally known, not only in racing i circles, hutA%i IthbseOlylio know me, that: I invariably run my horses strictly on • ave never had any : shadow Aasfcwpon-hiy mode of conducting turf transactions. The reason why I stopped my cheque for enVy mofmy, tod Mf&d $y horse at the dat'd IfivoWargill- as •follows; The night of entry, as heretofore, - through not possessing jirjy, ;large amount of scholarship. X reqnested one of the stewards to write my letter of nomination. When the list came out meeting, ’ evefi before there was time tp fix it up on the wall, I discovered tjhat, from some mistafte of my amanueiiEjfe^hie ? 6i ffi'y hprses had been pmitted bemg entered —pne on which my dependence was, and on the strength pf which I mainly entered others’fo' encourage the success of the meeting, lat once, before the stewards dispersed, and while it .was still in their power to correct this - mistake, J requested that the matter might be rectified, and, receiving no satisfaction.at^their^hapds^T-.’.distinctly announefed the course which I should mid did adopt, adding that I would abide by the decision of any recogniied in Melboume as to whether I aeVea rightly or not. I might be excused if I exhibited some amount of animus at thhjftatter has been treated, as the result would have been very damaging to a stranger; but I wish to aybid making any unnecessary remarks by wav ?u t fe a Hs|s? °^.-^ e CJub gavo no satisfaction outsittb,- ana-persons who wehe Merestbd'ln ovehts had grounds for grave discontent on finding the advertised handicappers absent from their post, and among those substituted could be found those, whom I am prepared to prove had an inMwHS extent>in,the;re?ult,9f certwh events. The more I notice the surroundings of what should be merely sport, honorably carried out, the-Mtfra*determineS aioi.T: bit gradually withdrawing from contesting or interesting myself With til A Nmv Zeolnrwl