WITH YOUR LEAVE, SIRS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 585, 19 February 1876, Page 2

WITH YOUR LEAVE, SIRS.

We are requested by " Cestus" to come before the footlighU and uuk« tho best apology "we can for him. Lii© most genius's be ifc erratic, idle, and not to be depended upon at a pinch. He tells us that he has a " splendid letter " on the coming Wftik.it© Turf Club meetiug partlywritten, but that he cannot complete it till further data come to hand respecting the previous performances of orie or two of the principal horses, and that it ig better to wait for it till Tuesday thau publish it incomplete to-day, and that our readers may depend on haung the correct tip in nearly c\ery event, so that everjbody may go in and make a pot of money out of everybody else Neither belying nor persuasion would extract his Saturday's article from " Cestus." We locked him up in the Edifcor'B room yesterday, but he turned sulky, upset the iukovei thetable, emptied the 'balance of a bottle of " P.8." in a little corner clipboard behind the Editor's chair, and went otit by way of the window — leaving a memorandum to say thatt we should hare the article oa Monduy, a " regular smasher," but not a line till then — and so We pray our gportiny readers' patience.