Mr Crane In Defence.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 124, 21 April 1884, Page 2

Mr Crane In Defence.

(To the editor of the "Woodville Exi aminer.)^ ©lE,— ln your last issue a local appeared commenting ,upon my conduct m not lending a rug i 0 cover the sick man. Kollatt. I must, Mr Editor,.deny this ' [charge ' altogether, and will mW 7 'ply eatplain what, took .place., , On r Erii day night last, Ready and ariotner4oan ojl came on ; horseback^ tqijrqx feween half-pasb nine atid ten p.m., and requested- me t©;- prepare rtea -for three of them. Thii I iYninefiately ordered the waiter to_attend to. The third party came along about a quarter of au hour afterwards, .dicing a horse and cart, (not a J brake) with the sick man named Kollatt. A man about the house was^tsidiantf^M fly Stiff horse during the time the other three were taking refreshments. The man with the horse, while m conversation 1 with RfcpHa% asked himjif jbr feltajoU, Kollatfc's reply was^'no^ notat al£" £' B ? n ]y . wgupst was a lifctje water, which was "immediately gbt'foY film?#l .that "P to .that; time .Kollatt, had not felt cold. Tn"themeantime"' < thenian Ready came to me.and asked for a rug for • -himself (distinctly 4b\^ UtM'f).*^ „ffe never mentioned Kollatt's name at all m reference to it. I told htni-Had^ pone m the house. Mrs Crane and ; oshers hnd gone the concert at "Efumeroa and had takeriftbe spare rugs with them, which wag 'the case, otherwise I should have ien> Ready one. Now, Mr; Editor, I know thw-hM orU ginated from the same; iuan,.fieaw, and simply because we ar£ nat^n^^ best of terms (through his sonWameJti&ding too lon# m my store books.) Trusting yoa i will insert this irf.your '■•' i&ft issue, and oblige. — lam, Ac, - :3is. Crank.