AN APOLOGY.

Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 492, 18 February 1880, Page 2

AN APOLOGY.

(To iiu Editor of ihi Patua Man..) Sin, — I owe yon an apology for having —perhaps a little hastily—assnuv a that it. was not your iutm:Uuii to publish my last letter, a copy of which 1 subsequently forwarded to t!io W,-. ugauui Herald. You will aomlt that the Liter w ; .s in your hands on the Monday, and that, in the succeeding Wednesday's paper you did not make the acknowledgement, ot receipt usual with yuit. I can only express regret that 1 misinterpreted your intentions, mid thank yon ior the perfectly fair play you have accorded me.— 1 uni, ite.. S. CROUMBIE-BROWN. Norm an by, Feb. 14, 1830. [Whilst accepting the above apology, \vc must say that Mr Brown was ovvrhasty in arriving at the conclusion he did. That we, received the i.-tter in question on Monday we do not deny, am! it was put into the compositors’ hands and " set up” for Wednesday's issue. At. the last moment, now.,-v-r, when too late to acknowledge reemps bv train- 1 , the letter was crowded out; hut provision ha! been male lor tins in a local, which stated that several letters (in.-In ling two others iv.-ides tin*out* under notice; wr<* nn i voi lably , held over. Before sending to W..n--ganui as !, 1 did, Mr Brm.vn should I.D.