AN EXPLANATION.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1309, 18 November 1880, Page 2

AN EXPLANATION.

TO THE EDITOR. Sik, — Will you allow me a small portion of your space to correct the statement ma-'le in Tuesday's issue of the Jlcttl, in. which iiu apology is sriven to the Waikato Cavalry for thy non-appearance of a report of the rifle contest, dinner, ke, held last Friday. The writer oi the local referred to throws the blame of this matter upon me, aud endeavors to rai^p a laugh at my expense by stating that I kept back the report, because not having received a ticket I lost my dinner. The facts are simply these : On Friday afternoon 1 was informed that a reporter's ticket had been sent to the Jfuil office, and as it had not been sent down to me, I naturally came to the conclusion that the proprietor had either made other arrangement*, or did not want a report. I therefore wrote a note to that effect, stating that my position as leporter was &o very unsatisfactory that I must resign the appointments. My reasons for doing so were several, and well known to the proprietor, though he did not mention them in the local. In the first place I objected to my reports being either wholly ignored, or so unskilfully mutilated and cut down as to appear ridiculous. Another reason was that I objected to being associated with a paper that seemed to me to be working directly against the interests of the district it was supposed to represent. Another reason (a purely personal oue), will appear at the next uttlmj oj the Undent M(tt/Ltr«te\s Court. With regard to the statement th;»t no ticket was sent to the office — ouly a private invitation to the proprietor — I have the authority of the Secretary to the Hamiltour Cavalry to guy that the invitation was sent to the paper in its representative capacity, not as a private invitation. In conclusion, allow mo to say that the apology to the Cavalry appears absurd, wlxen it is remembered that a very important meeting of the Cambridge Cavalry was held on Saturdayweek within a stone's throw of the MaiVa printing office, yet not the slightest notice was taken of it, and had it not been for the full report contained in the Waikato Times' columns, the publio would have been left in ignorance of matters conneoted with the present position of the Cavalry, in whioh they tike a deep interest. — I am, &c, T. C H*SC«OWP,