AN EXPLANATION.

Southland Times, Issue 557, 10 September 1866, Page 2

AN EXPLANATION.

(TITHE 'DTTOftOK TUB StTTTHMVI) TIMFS.) — 1 find that \fr Harvey com pl.ti us privately, and v-Cin cllv through the tress, that Ms speech o^' Tu<>s I .y evening wns jjciH'r.iilv iujiccu'a'ely reported, and he instances a particular sentence in proof Tn regard to this sentence T assert, and am ready tto prove, fir?<t : lhafc Mr Harvey must have inaccurately read the manuscript furnished to him. Second : he has inicruntely read the printed" report, and third, that- he has furnished to the News an in ccurate version of the seiitence as delivered hy him The whole matter lies in one word. T!.e trmsm pt gmn to the press (and fac simile to -Mr Harvey) was written, plainly, " I was perhaps more to blame than some of you." The printed report appeared as "X was perhaps more to blame than one of you. Mr Harvey r.'arls both (see News leader.) " I was perhaps more to blame than any of you." The sentence furnished by Mr Harvey as " what he re;illy did say," contains, I assert, words that; he really did not say. and omits others that he really did say. The Keporter therefore is ri^ht, and Mr Harvey wronsr. But had the report t been wron r, talcing the sentence as it i* tjjiven. " You are all fo blame, but I per h ips — with many — am more to blamethan mmy of you, as from having a superior education, 1 and others should hive' taken more interest in pu' lie affairs than som • of you." " What in the name of all that is wonderful" was the unfortunate Reporter to make of a, Ions; speech composed of sentences like that ? I ran sympathise with Mr Harvey in his chagrin at dis overing that his or.ition will not bear verbatim reporting and regret that I have no better consolation to offer rhm " Looking to our errors in the p.ist, let us in the future, &c." — Yours, The Reporter. Invercar o 'ill, Bth September.