ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 25 October 1880, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE OAMAIUJ MAITi.. Sib, —I think that in justice to-myself I ought to reply to an articla that appeared in Saturday's issue of tha Mail ro my case with F. Shaw, the owner of Adamant. If I draw the proper inference from the article in question, it seenn, that I am made to appear as an accomplice, if not a principal, in a swindle perv . petrated on the Duntroon Racecourse 1> Mr. F. Shaw had been put into tlv* wiU ness-box, as I wished my lawyw to do. with him, facts would have coiw> to light, that would have entirely exonerated ma from the slightest suspicion of being it* any way connected with such swindle.. The facts of the case are as follow . Shaw and I had been in correspondence both by letter and telegram re running % the horses Blue Peter and Adamant together at different meetings for the last two months, and it was only when we jmet on the 2nd of this month in Oamaru. ' that we came to the terms of agreementthai appear in your issue of Saturday. Front that time until he had the trial gallop. ; with Mr. Goodman's Tera, and Mr. J... Lunn's Clarence, on the morning of tho 13th, and the same evening a gallop with: Mr. Mason's Randwick, he gave me no> notice of wishing to withdraw from such, agreement. After having' tho trials, alluded to, he came to me and wished to> withdraw from our agreement, on tho grounds that he saw where ho could make, more money at the Duntroon meeting by unning his horse independently of me* he offering me at tho same time L2O to, back out, which I refused to do. I thea acquainted some of the stewards,, the night before the races came off* of tkesa circumstances, and also on the saoimiing of the races wrote a letter thew,, asking them to impound any stakes. Adamant might win .until I had tho matter laid before them.

In my case at Gourfc, I was never nsked for any explanation as to why 1 had. entered into this agreement with Shiufy (and what I have to justify myself for,.and, fto whom, is beyond my comprehension. You also refer to some peculiar position, ( I may hold in the eyes of the public witlii regard to this afi'air. Sir > perhaps yon will tell me. Ido not understand th.o son-* tence alluded to. If you will excuse for occupying bo. much of your space, I will put my oase to you as follows Two gentlemen, are reported by the Canterbury and other papers to have lately entered into partnership to raca together. Say they have each a string of horsas, Une wins a sum of money with such horse or horses,, and refuses to pay h's partner his fair half, or whatever portion tie may be entitled to. What other remedy than applying to law has ho? Such is my oase, and for so doing I have to put up with any insinuation or slur that may be cast at me. I ask if such treatment is fair.

I may add, in conclusion, i|f any"shady" or " suspicious" place at the Diintroon Kaces, it coulu have only have beei\ rated lpy tly>?f. who were action of the ate wards at tho oonclnsion ■if ijace for ths WaitaJsi Qup* clearlv pointed, out the suspected, horses anw owners, of- 'which 3; waa not one. _ If thoro is anything that requires justifying or explaining to the editor of the Mail, or the public, I shall be most hnppy to givo it as far as I am able.—l am, &c., Alex. C. M'Kay-, Pukeuri Point, Oct., 25th, 1880. _