THE TWO RACING CLUBS.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1425, 20 August 1881, Page 3

THE TWO RACING CLUBS.

''_''/ ''\ 'ipTHB EfittOß. ; "' '" Siu,--tt is a."gre»t; pHy Jyour boirespondent Nemesis did not take the trouble to asoqrtjain the cprrect financial position of the Cambridge Jockey Club before' so positively , staging "the institution 13 £1200 in debt, assets a grand stand." He admits he 'ia a, member of the W.T.C, which is ;ii, , debt he says, k 'about*' £400? How he, f 'comes to know the . exact indebtedness of a. Club he, is not a member of, and not that of his own, appears, to me strange, from' which I 'can only c6hie"t6 one conclusion, rife., the' statement is intended, to mislead the public, Allow me to inform Nemesis ' the CJ'.C. te net in debt; it pay's a tent' of £80 a year to the owners' of the grand' stand for the use of tjhe building, the Tent of which is paid up to date.' The proprietors have generously offered it to the Club for £600; and there is little doubt advantage will be taken of the offer! So provided, no ni6ney is* paid (which is not the case)' it would only leave a debt of £600, with » very much more Valuable asset'tharfihfe'W.T.C., for its debt about £400. There is, no doubt' amalgamation would be the b^st thing in the interests of good racing, but I''arn afraid there, are mivny difficulties ill the way. However, I am not going to discuss that question nowj and in conclusion trust Nemesis jvvill in»future be very piucli jnore careful »to lpa^xi the truth before publishing sudh untruthful and misleading statements/ I can only regret llie'letter appeared at present time, as I fear it will not help amalgamation. — I am, &c, A. Isaacs. P.S. — If Nemesis answers this, he should not be ashamed to sign his name. Cambridge, 18th August, 1881.

TO THE KDITOB. Sm,— l notice in the report in the Waikato TrMEs of the Temperance meeting held in the Public School-house on Thursday evening, several errors and omissions which might prove somewhat annoying to the pers6na interested. Miss Jane Carnachan and Miss Carrie Nixon are reported as "reading papers," while they merely recited pieces on the subject of temperance. Mr Ripley is represented as "enlightening the assembly with an elaborate discourse," while what he actually did was to read a short extract from a report of a meeting held lin London. Mr Alford is described as giving an "impromptu discourse;" the Fact being that he gave an address which he had been asked to give some time before ; while the song by Mrs Rees, which was really well rendered, and a very able paper read by Mr R. Wright, on " Reason in connection with Temperance," were pasped over in silence. I fear the reporter was not among those who took the pledge. — I aui, &c, Truth. Cambridge, August 17, 1881. [The report in question was not forwarded by our reporter, but by a person whom we believed to be a friend and member of the Society.— Ed.]