CORRESPONDENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 25, 29 January 1879, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of, the "Evening Mail " Sik,— l declined to answer Mr Haddon's question last nitrht because I did not recognise his or auy other outsider's right to ask if. Mr Adams, who was at the meeting, w»8 the proper person to come forward, uiid I challenged him at the meeting to do so, although the noise vavy have p< evented the' gereral public bearing me. Mr Adams heard aud was afraid. Now, Sir, lam prepared to produce worn ttstmn^y that Mr Adams distinctly stated " I have gone too far on the Education question, but my Committee urged me to it." Mr Adams' Committee know best whether he was speaking the truth wheu he said (hat. Moreover it is perfectly true that Mr Adrims solicited Catholic votes and received some promises, at the same ».ime pledging himself not to oppose Mr Curtis' Bill.— lam, &c, A. M. Kavanagh. To the Editor of the " Evening Mail.'' _ Str, — As a disinterested observer of passing events, 1 should advise the owners of Pittsburg not to start their horse for too many events in the forthcoming races, but to take a lesson from the recent defeat of Adamite, whose owners thought fit to start him for the St. Mary's Stakes at 1 1 a.m. on the 20th, for the Congregation at mid-day, and for the Consolation at the Pedestal at 8 p.m. I am, a:c., Fairplav.