CAPTAIN WHITAKER AND HIS BREACH OF MILITARY BTIQUETTE.
TO THE EDITOR. SiX, — " Curb-chain " altogether fails to " refute " this nccttpation. According to the diotionary "refute" means "disprove." tow my "hoesy" friend simply " refupes to believe " a dry, and, for Captain Whitaker, a very unpleasant fact. That Col. Lyon did charge Captaiu Whitaker with the above offence, can be proved by the evidence of some seventy people who heard him. As for the " wigging " which is promised to the Colonel, I fancy that the Defence Minister is not quite such, a fool as my friend seems to imagine. With regard to the report Mag a political ccjuib, &c. &0,, w my
friend suggests, if your conespondenfc had revived the old story of the arrears of Cavalry pay, there might have been ponio ground for the abortion. How truly grateful Captain Whitaker should feel to his dear " curb-chain " for thus keeping the wound open, and auggebting prooeedings of libel.— l am, &c, " Cap- cover." Te Awamutn, 10th Nov. 1881.
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Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1461, 12 November 1881, Page 3
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166CAPTAIN WHITAKER AND HIS BREACH OF MILITARY BTIQUETTE. Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1461, 12 November 1881, Page 3
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