SHOEING COMPETITION AT THE A. AND P. SHOW.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 9662, 26 October 1882, Page 3

SHOEING COMPETITION AT THE A. AND P. SHOW.

I TO THE EDITOR. Sib, — My attention was called this morning to an advertisement of Mr Hamilton's, which is calculated to mislead the public, and also do me injury ; therefore I would aak your- permission to say a few words in explanation, which will put a different light upon the subject. I will begin by saying that I think it a great piece of impudence on his part to use my name in the middle of his advertisement without first asking niy- permission to do so;" and, in the second place, he takes advantage of on erroneous newspaper report to make himself look like a shining star (but with all he lacks the light). ' He says the competition (for horse - shoeing) was keen, and that myself and Mr Shannon were among the list. Observe, among the list, as if there were <i dozen or more. Now, sir, the list teally consisted of Hamilton and me ; he had seven entries, four of which were cart horses, and three hacks, and my entries were four, two of which were entered by the owners, and unknown to myself, one of them being a cart horse. Mr Shannon or anyone else does not appear among the entries, which gives the great list of two, which Mr Hamilton is at the head of. Then he makes a great fuss out of ' the cart horses, he being at the top of the list. You will please observe he was the only smith who entered cart horses, and he had no business to do so, as there was no place in the programme for them, and could not be shown. . Then, to complete the description, he adds a foot-note stating that he has for the last four years taken first and second prizes. Observe, he does not say what he takes the prizes for, but leaves you to believe that it is for shoeing, but instead of that it is for common drays, for which he was the only exhibitor, so of course the list was easily headed. I would like further to call your attention to the state of the poll last show of shoeing. There were six competitors, of whom I enclose you a list. These six had sixteen entries, and I stood first and third. Mr Taylor stood second ; and, to make the thing more clear, I would say further that Mr Hamilton had seven out of the entries, the other nine being divided among the other five, and the judges (by the way they did understand something about a horseshoe, that is more than I can say of this year's judßes), did not even think one of his seven fit to take the third place. lam trespassing too much upon your -valuable space, so I will conclude by saying that I do not depend upon a false advertisement, but upon my good. work, to maintain the high reputation of the old Wanganui horse-shoeing forge. — I am, &c, Walter Abmstkong.