CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 125, 22 April 1884, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

(TO THE EJDITOa OF VEL& STAITDARD.) • VT Siv,»-I .find that at a meeting of •eM^ei!dmg-Jbcfeeyßla^nS4iiS^y evening last, they have decided to disqualify ratrf rom runniffg^a horse^wgaia on the Feilding course. It seems to me to be very poor;|<pite to pick upon me who had no interest whatever m the affair and to~allow the real offenders to go free/ -I-fiiust say that J am very much npder tlie in%iession that some of the.indiriduals wliQVgave their decision against me had more to do with thej'Rarik dwindle*" than I did. In the first place,~the horse Charlie's ■name is withheld from ; tb e :. -.tsbt^ijiator till some considerable money has been invested oofn f G-undagai'alias Sundown ; secondly, the machine is closed fully a quarter ofah hour before j the start of theiiaee. Jjawnal^o tp|d. byj.^.J^hnson; who entered* :both! horses/ |hat the sicretaiy persuaded him when entering Charlie, not , -to add " late Ghundagai," 'hut he (Mr Johnston) ' >J eHosgM it safW-to'db^ao: Tn^V^^he^ra tell^bt a man being disq'a'aHffe'd because he was seen by the seoretary riding the horse Vn tne Sun'c(i^ >: Detpre' : 4e i^cesi^ la conclusion*! 1 wclatd' warii^he Feilding Club that I BhaTl~Tefer the whole matter to the Canterbury Jockey 1 j ®l'u&, as I maintain^ they^ iJaire not the slightest grqtiftda.^on^^hiclj^tv disqijali£y me. 1 also , hope that the Palmerston, Club Will ' inVelttjgatie^^he^matter. I am, &0., ,"."" ~ — — ~- "Wood.