PRESS ASSOCIATION APOLOGIES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 11875, 23 April 1904, Page 4

PRESS ASSOCIATION APOLOGIES.

*■ (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, April 22. The Press Association regrets to find that a mess-age was sent out from Wellington this week, referring to a question of costs, in which Mr Jellicoe was ct.netriwd, which places him in a falsa? position. The management was not aware of the telegram Ining si-nt. or of its n:itun\ and expresses regret that a message should have lxen circulated of a character to give offence to Mr Jellicoe. A telegram was sent from Greymouth on March 22nd, containing quotation from a pvtiti'.>:i width it. was alleged was to be forwarded lo the Government, protesting agiiiiict the loan poll at Hokitika. .Statements weie made therein rcilecting on tli-..« Town Cierk of Hokitika. which it has been .shewn in t.he local Court were quite unjustilicd, a::d sliould not have been circulated. The petition it-elf was withdrawn after the hearing, and in vkw of all the circuniNtani.'-:s it is necessary t<» ivctiiv tlso injustice which has been done to the Town Clerk by the publication of thiy explanation, and retraction of the Greymoiiih mtii.-;age it.self. [TiiJ objectioiifible portion of the mpsreferred to was excised by '"Tlie l'ress."]