DISTRIBUTION OF JUBILEE TESTAMENTS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1882, 23 April 1889, Page 2

DISTRIBUTION OF JUBILEE TESTAMENTS.

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1 TO THE EDITOR. SIE, —I had no intention of replying to Mr Dickson’s letter, but finding that pome persons think an explanation necessary, I beg to hand you a latter which I have this day received from the chairman of the Waitohi School Committee, which I think will furnish all that is needed.—l am, etc., Thomas A, Hamilton, Waitohi Flat, April 20th, 1889. “ Rev. Mr Hamilton. “Dear Sir,— Your note of this date just received, and I regret exceedingly that any unpleasantness or misunderstanding occurred between you and the Rev. Mr Dickson over the distribution of the Jubilee Testaments at the Waitohi Flat School. About half-an-hour before I I asked you to favor us with your presence on that occasion, 1 had a conversation with Mr Dickson, and told him that out of courtesy to yourself, and to make the ceremony more impressive in the sight of the children, I should like you to be present along with him. He clearly led me to understand that any afternoon of the following week would suit him, and on that understanding I asked you to fix your day and to be good enough to advise Mr Dickson accordingly. A few days later you told me you had fixed on Tuesday afternoon, at 3 p.m., and that you had written to Mr Dickson to that effect, with a further proviso “ that iu the event of Tuesday not beiug suitable to him to | alter the date to suit his own convenience I

and apologise for your absence.” I considered this arrangement so conclusive, especially as I understood that both of you were to be similarly engaged together at Teraulo on the Monday, that I made final arrangements for that date, with (ho result that, through some unintentional misunderstanding, Mr Dickson was absent.

“ I am, yours very faithfully, “ John Phaser, “ Chairman Waitohi Flat School.”