CORRESPONDENCE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1176, 16 October 1882, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

(Wa do not hold ourselves responsib’e for the opinionexpressed by our corraspondeate].

TO THE EDITOR. Sir : —I saw a local in to nights paper referring to the fatted calf I gave to the hospital Fete, and as its a lot of lies from beginning to end, I will let you know the truth about it. Some months ago Chrisp and I think E. K. Brown or McKay asked me for something, I told them I would give them a fat calf, but that the winner would have to fetch it from my paddock on Patutahi flat, and that by anyone presenting the order they could get it. Some time afterwards I asked McKay who had won it, and he said it was won by a company, I told him that in a short time I should be shifting the cattle up the valley, and should like them to get it away before they were shifted. I never heard any more about it until one day I saw T. Uren, who told me he should let it stray until it grew up. I told him I had given a fat calf, not a fat bullock, and whoever came for it could have a fat calf. I saw Ledger a week or so ago, he asked me what about the fat calf, I told him he could have it by fetching it. He said “if you dont deliver it in town, I will see if I can’t make you.” He walked off, but neither Ledger nor anyone else has at any time presented an order to me for the calf. However I will go to the first cattle sale and purchase a fat calf if the winner can find time to come and fetch it, as it will be much easier got than from Patutahi; your local was rather rough until you had heard the other side. I think you are a stranger to Mr Ledger or you would have known that you could not repeat after him until you had heard the other side.—Yours, &c., J. Tutchbn. 4 Gisborne, Oct. 14, 1882. “