To the Editor of the Otago Witness.

Otago Witness, Issue 490, 20 April 1861, Page 5

To the Editor of the Otago Witness.

. Sir, — I much regret that, in a late number of your Paper, you should have found oause to edm-' plain of a want of courtesy on the part" of .tie Stewards of the Waitaki Races, in not having forwarded to you an account of the late Meetings • - « I am anxious that ncrblamein the matter- should attach to the Stewards— thfe -fault,. if any,., resting with myself, as Secretary. A few wordsof explanation (which I must beg you to insert ~jn ' next issue), will, however, show that the omission on my part was altogether unintentional. , '^e^, account of the races (which, although it TooKg^' short in print, occupies some time in' Writing), I" was obliged to write out on the evening suooeetliilgf the second clay's racing, when other business' obni-b nected with the Meeting also occupied &\y atfen^S, tion. It was, therefore, itnpossible.f^rjnejfq wti^S a duplicate report in tip^ for \he *typud&itfm&to% started by daylight the nex.|;.m6rnjngy- ( j „ >Vp^|^ I therefore ' arranged J Yji|th^ Jjie, -gehtieni^lsyjia^ was to carry the report 'M^he Jt&ti^fassj?s£~ t whichever Paper ,was to u 3^fcst^EtifeiphwMjEa^; should call on explaining the, cir6^mstandess9f;''th'fpas«^^^^i?; to copy ther-repd^^^j^^^ki^tl^^^^^Pf