CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3830, 11 June 1891, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

Tae Late Sergeant Price-

(To the Editor.) Sir.—ln your account of the inquest on Sergeant Price I am credited with saying he was suffering from inflammation of the wind pipe. 1 said nothing of the kind. Some ten weeks ago Sergeant Price consulted me for chronic .laryngitis. He had ale'o suspicious symptoms of a tumour in the chest* although no tumour could be discovered on a moat searching examination, so I sent him to Dr Wallace McKenzie, a specialist in throat diseases, asking liim to carefully examine his throat and mentioning that although I could detect no tumour, he might carefully examine the chest for such. This he did, and in his reply said that he could not detect a tumour, but that there was chronic laryngitis with some dilatation of the heart, which with rest and treatment, he considered, shoaldresult in recovery. However, as often happens, the dilatation increased, and from the interference with the circulation from the dilated heart and the obstruction from the throat hypostatic pneumonia (inflammation of the lungs) eusued with a fatal result. I am, etc, Spencer P. Beabd. A Correction[To the Editor.]

Sir.—l noticed that Diogenes in his football notes stated that the decisions of the Eeferee in tbe Grey* town match formed the subject of a good deal of comment on the part of the vanquished. Now, Sir, I should like Diogenes to know that the players themselves wera very reEireut in giving ,m opinion, but, from the little they did say I got the impression that they had been hardly dealt 'with. Tbe decisions of the referee were not commented on so much by the players themselves as by the unbiassed portion of the spectators. To show the state of feeling amongst such spectators, I will quote the following incident. Shortly after the conclusion of the match a native went up to a player and said : «* I very sorry for that referee ; very sorry." The I player began to wonder what his companion was driving at. The native repeated, "I very sorry for that referee; very sorry," and then slowly pointing with his finger to his face solemnly said, "He only one eye."— I am, &c, Speotat