CORRESPONDENCE.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 303, 4 September 1865, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

Wo shall always feel pleasure in ailordiug space for the Iree tlxacussiuu of iui subjects iLUeeiiug iuo prosperity aud progress of the province aau coioay. Hut cutiursiug opiuiuiii expressed lu tiils portion of our coimuus* aud luways reserving to cursci»c* lire right to curtail auy expicsiuou waiiuug in courtesy ou pan of toe writer. *#* eominuiixcauous must be accompanied by the naiao and address oi uio writer iu cuanaenoe, auu as a guax-ua-tee of good, failu. [To the Editor of the Hawke’s Bay Times.] >3ni, —Allow me through tue medium of your valu • able journal to ask a question or two regaraing the late lottery at the Meame Motel, .hirst, 1 look two tickets at Ms each, which makes (of cuursej ±,l. iVell, the said lotierg was to —and did—come off on Saturday, 12 th August. The names of the fortunate competitors were to be (according to pi omisej published in one or other of the local papers, krom that day to this, I have not heard a word, either of the Lottery nor of my £l. Nor, am Y singular; there are others who took tickets in that Lottery (a friend of mine suggests “ swindle'j and who have been equally unfortunate. What 1 want to know is simply this ; IVhy were the names of the fortunate competitors not published I I would, in all probability, have never noticed this affair at all; but in looking over the columns cf your contemporary a few days ago, what was mg astonishment in noticing another lottery advertised ' I await an. explanation with interest. I am. Sir, Yours, <§ c., OX£ ISIEEESTED. Napier, 2nd September, 1865.