MR LUMSDEN'S CHALLENGE AND MR HYLAND'S ACCEPTANCE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1935, 29 November 1884, Page 2

MR LUMSDEN'S CHALLENGE AND MR HY LANDS ACCEPTANCE.

TO THK EDITOR. Sir,— ln your issue of yesterday appears an effusion emanating (presumably) from the peu of Mr DArcy Hyland on the above subject, iv the course of which remarks are marie calculated to mislead your readers. I therefore crave your indulgence for a short space, in order to vindicate myself from the charge of cowardice preferred against me by your correspondent. The writer of theabo^e letter says that he (Mr Hyknd) accepted my challenge, adding that " the hour for putting down the money came, but Mr Lumsden didn't/' That is true, sir, in the abstiact, but now comes my side of the question. In order to give Mr Hyland every show to make his acceptance dove-tail with hia touring arrangements, I gave him one month to close with my challenge. He accepts by advertisement in your issue of Tuesday, appointing half-past ten on the morning of that day as the time, and Hewitt's Ho eel as the place of meeting. The iesuit was that, not having The Waikato Times left at my place (which is dittmt from Cambridge some three or four miles), I was not made aware of the existence of Mr Hylands acceptance till Tuesday evening, when I rode into Cambridge to purchase the paper. I submit that if my opponent had intended to meet me he would at least have extended the same courtesy to me that I did to him, and given me at least 24 hours notice. Or perhaps he expected me, after my challenge was issued, to leave my business and stand at the door of your publisher's establishment to wait for his reply. Your correspondent aayB " I was surprised, but not disappointed." I venture to say that Mr Hyland would have been surprised and disappointed if I had turned up, for he had so arranged the time and place of meeting as to minimize the chances of my so doing. That he was "not disappointed," I readily allow. Mr Hy land's letter contains a trite though somewhat hackneyed adage about fools paying for their experience, but its appositeness in this instance is hard to find, since he distinctly adds that lam " not a fool, for fools have courage (?) and Mr Lumsden has none " Apply this to Mr Hyland, and see how accurately it proves its correctness. "Fools have courage, " Mr Hyland has courage, ergo Mr Hyland is what Mr Lumsden is not— a fool. Understand, sir, it is not I who apply ungentleinanly epithets to an opponent ; this is what may be logically deduced fiom Mr Hylands own remarks anent myself. In conclusion, I again repeat my challenge to Mr Hvland, and if he is desirous of earning twenty pounds or so, and also of giving my friends " a good houra' amusement and some cheap fun at my expense," as he boasts to be able to do, let him come forward now, or upon his head will recoil the opprobrium of cowardice, which, by a little sharp practice, he has sought to hurl at me. Apologising for so far trespassing on your valuable apace, — I am, &c, , N. H. Lumsden, Cambridge, November 28th, 1884.

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