CITY GUARDS V.N.D. RIFLES.

Evening Star, Issue 4955, 20 January 1879, Page 2

CITY GUARDS V.N.D. RIFLES.

to nm IDITOR. ' Sip,—A letter appears in your issue of last night 8-gaed “ Palmam Qui Non Meruit Ferat’’ No doubt the wr.ter intended it to be, as Artemus Ward would say, “sarcastic;” but he has. made a terrible .mess of it. In my loM<— of last night I made a slight mistake, which 1 now hj st li to rectify. Ist -.tc.l that we heat the No. 1 tour tu..es out of five, ana three times consecutively. Now (he fact 1-j wo won five uinichos out of six, and throe of those consecutively. I cwmot repute “V&TDP.m Oui Non Meruit Feisty” for the.-simple reason that he. Mr, not wiitte.h anything to reply to. But. sir, a friend, no doubt, of this gentleman had a. letter in vour issue of butt night, signed “City Guar,* iclevtug cn t'o military character of a volunteer otuoer. To that, supreme contempt which ullsuch men as “City Guard" deserve I; will leave him, merely stating as an excun* for untieing hrm that the officer al udod to is at present ofit of (Own. 1 In conclusion, sir. the fact iluti -iSW ♦bo match at Anderson’s B>v the c ity tj.urds gave u; three cheers us being iho .successful team Let the captain of the C'ty Guard* '■xjibiiii how the sro ewere manipulated after both tcv.ns left the ground —I am, ic , North Duxedis Rin,ns. Dunedin, January IS. • P.S.—No doubt tbfc officer] alluded to by* Gtiani” will epe«fc (or bygec]f when bo fetima to town. r