AN APOLOGY.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 228, 13 June 1872, Page 7

AN APOLOGY.

(To the Editor.)

!mr, — T do not like to trc-^pa^o too much upon your Lood nature ; ho \\- ever, under the present cireumstanct.-.s L think I am in duly bound to send you t'nis in reply to a letter signed J. ituodie, which 1 aaw in your last i-isuc, June Ofch.

I am sorry the apology I sent should have given Mr. 3tuodie so much oiVenee, for as such it never was intended ; and if I had met him. when in that locality no doubt I would just have mado the same apology. As to the gate, I could see none ; but as a substitute, there were two rails hanging on the wire fence. His chief reason, it would appear, for performing (which I still maintain) tho unchrisiinn act was in case our horses might damage his crops. As to this I made particular enquiries, aml^it that Lime there were only grass and a IVav rows of potatoes. What reason Mr. lyl. had for tying tho horses opposite, the church door, putting himself to the unnecessary trouble of taking tl-o dumb animals a distance of two or three chains from his own gate, I -do not know. As to tho desire 'of returning good for evil, such has been, still is trusting ever will be. — I am. &c, "W. Douglas Bkowjs*.

[This correspondence must here end. — Ed]