AN EXPLANATION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 849, 10 September 1864, Page 5

AN EXPLANATION.

( 2 o the Editor of the. Dailt Times.) Sir -On my return to town this* evening, _ I was somewhat surprised at seeing a statement in your own correspondent's letter, relative to my visit to the Lake District. Allow me to say it is a perversion of truth. The facfc is, thafc. on Thursday morning last, when I was about leaving Queenstown for fche Arrow, I wa3 pressed by the hon. Secretary of the Queenstown Committee— who, by the way, spares neither pains, time, nor expense to forward the cause—and other gentlemen, to accompany them to the head ofthe L-ike, in order to see the proprietors of the saw mills, to induce them to send a model, as alsi specimens of the various timbers, to Ihe Exhibition. I ara happy to say that our journey was.not fruitless.

liefire starting, the hon. Secretary and others endeavored to have a message forwarded to Arrowtown, requesting the meeting to be postponed until tbe following day. We left by the steamer under the impression that a communication to that effect would reach Arrowtown. On my arrival there next morning, I immediately sought the Warden and your correspondent,—explained to them the cause of my unavoidable det mtion afc Queenstown, and proposed to hold a meeting that; evening, offering to send a messeneer and crier round to announce it. The Wsrden, Mr Broad, said he did not see the use of holding a meeting that evening; and, being anxious, to catch Monday's coach, from the Dunstan— having a meeting in prospective at Alexandra—l at

I once pushed on. The " great inoignation was, I think, felt only by your correspondent, for the local paper (the'WalcatipMailJ, epeakxxig of the Arrow, says "the atieudancd was not numerous ; in facfc, a nearly general indifference is evinced here (Arrowtown) on the matter." Your correspondent gives a report of the meeting at Queenstown. Sir, we often hear of the impossibility of seeing through a nine-men wall ; your correspondent can do more,— he can hear at the distance of som- dozen miles; in thafc he was not there at the time of the meeting, but at Arrowtown. I am, &c, , H. Waymouth. Dunedin, Sth September.