CORRESPONDENCE.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 5, Issue 267, 19 May 1865, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

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To the Editor of the Hawke's Bay Times.

SiE,—l observe in the Herald of the 16th a letter under the signature of Fair Play, having reference to the recent conviction of one of the Town of a Breach of the Licensing Ordinance, and containing the following remark :—■ “The parties who evinced any disposition to noisiness were not lodgers, but gentlemen who had nothing but the r own inclination to induce them to bestow their idleness at the Commercial.” The foregoing paragraph is also quoted by a correspondent in your own journal of this day. I beg to submit that the above appears to have some reference to my establishment, or at least would so read to persons at a distance, unacquainted with the merits of the case. I wish it, therefore, to be distinctly understood that the gentlemen referred to are entirely unconnected with the Commercial Hotel kept by myself. Tours, &c., L. BUTCHER, Commercial Hotel, Spit, 17th May, 1865.