AN EXPLANATION.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 103, 1 May 1874, Page 2

AN EXPLANATION.

To the Editor op the Evening Mail.

Sir— l have reason to believe that lam the steward of the races referred to by -Pomes" in hi-, btter yc-terday, and althojgh the whole fffaic appears tome to be paltry in the extreme, I ft el comp l«d ta troub'e you with a reply in on'erto exonerate my br. ther s'ewards from the ch-ree of discourtesy preferrel indefinitely against one ol our number. Asa steward, and owner of horses that wero ru i ing, I haa my hind? quite full on the course, and m<»y possibly have given an abrupt answer to c c or more questions put to me, but without the slightest intention of being discourteous in any way whatever, and I ara very sorry to find that evtn in or.c instance I have given offence. " Hospeß" will perhaps pardon rre for saying that, if le felt himself aggrieved, the more manly course to pursue would have been to mention it to me persona ly, ard not to let me know of ie fcr the first time through the ccltirtn? of a newspaper. Ido not envy the disposition of a man who is so ready to take offence, and, alter nursing his wrath for a (uw hours, ro chil iih ani so -•mall-minded as to complain in print of fo trivial a grievance as the receipt of a short aniwtr from one who, at tbe time the question wa? put, was otherwise c igaged. I am, &c, it. E. M'Rae.