To the Editor of the Daily.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 970, 10 January 1882, Page 2

To the Editor of the Daily.

Sir,—l am quite aware how careful we ought to be in even attempting to cross swords with an Editor, especially when exception is being taken to any remarks which appear in the leading columns, but your assertion in Satuday's issue that our late respected Governor is to a large extent responsible lor the many small race meetings annually faking place throughout the colony is a slander so utterly unsupported by facts, that I challenge you to prove it.. You even go further and attach an honored and revered name to public house gatherings. We have this consolation that assertion is no no, proof, and you now have an opportunity to say':' Ist—Where there is a meeting in the Wellington Provincial District which in any way can be said to owe its existence to our late Governor} 2nd— Where there-is one that was not in existence years before wp. ever heard of Sir Hercules ? 3rd—Whether Sir Heoules Robinson's example, and the exercise of his great influence in forcing the recognition on the racecourse of the unwritten code—the highest and best laws we know —did not do more to.raise our national pastime than all the previously written laws were, able to ? I do not stand forth as the Champion of tho reseats who disgrace our pleasure any more than you in defending the privileges of the fourth estate, intend to defend the scurrilous prints which disgrace your profession, bpt I do raise my voice .against defaming a gentleman truly, whom our Queen has honored more than once, and who owes his position to-day to the very confidence Her Majesty has in him. The" Cowards Uastlo" exhibition of attacking a man thousands of miles beyond reply is not like the Daily, and la<ikyou to say what did ever Sir. Hercules Robinson do to warrant your speaking of him as a promoter of public house race meetings I

I am, etc., Ralvh B. Aumstrons, Giirterton, 9ih January, 1882.