A DISCLAIMER.

Waikato Times, Volume XII, Issue 998, 14 November 1878, Page 2

A DISCLAIMER.

Sir, — I wish you to inform the public, through the medium of your valuable paper, that I am not the J. A. Ralph mentioned .m yours of the 12th inst., as having been fined for a breach of Game I .aws, at the Ngaruawabia Police Court, on the sth ult.— l am, &c, Johk Anthony Ralph. Coal Mines, Huntley, Nov. 13, 1878.

Sib, — I hear it has been arranged that I the review of the Cavalry, this season, will take place on the Ohaupo flat. Last year, one who signed himself " Wellwisher," wrote a long, and not a particularly interesting letter (it would have been better practice for himself had he delivered it as a lecture), m which he went somewhat out of his way to try and bring discredit on Col. Lyon, the officer who has so long and efficiently commanded the Waikato district, who could, m no way, be to blame for wounding the feelings of the " "Well- wisher," he being m no manner responsible for the arrangements, and it is more ihan probable he did not know money would be charged for admittance to the ground. "Wellwisher" complains about the racing part of the programme. He must be anxious to lead the public to think himself an extraordinary pure and unworldly man, and must adore that sort of thing, and is one who, no doubt, daily thanks God that he is not as other men are. Rumour has it, that "Well-wisher" is m a sort of transient state, somewhere betwixt a pupplier of bodily and spiritual comforts. If he perseveres, it is probable that a good tradesman will be spoilt, to make a very indifferent preacher. There are, also, some who are so uncharitable as to say the most probable cause of his rushing into print was, not so much the racing part of the programme, as the payment for admittance, his calculations being, on that score, completely upset. Probably, the deciding point m his mind was, whether witnessing the drilling and racing of horses is a fitting ammusement for persons of his stamp is the financial part of the arrangement. Were the entrance frea, with lunch thrown m, then, perhaps, all would be correct and proper. Wilt " Well-wisher" state that his object m writing his letter was not more for the purpose of giving two gentlemen what he called a rub (the said gentlemen being master tradesmen of the trade he is now trying to learn) than on the score of morality. — I am, &c. Two of a Trade Nbvee Agbbb.