AN EXPLANATION.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 682, 9 July 1870, Page 3

AN EXPLANATION.

(To the Editor of the Westport Times.J Sib, —In your issue of to-day you state that your informant, concerning the amount collected by the Rev. Father Nolan for the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Hawthorn, When here, was myself. That statement requires correction. My words to you were, in the course of private conversation, "That the rev. gentleman had done very well I thought," you then remarked " I suppose he collected £SO or £60." Not mowing the amount, I made no reply, and, you, I suppose, took my silence for assent. But even that did not justify you extending your imagination £lO. Trusting you will insert the above in your next issue, —I am yours &c, Eobeet G-. Neale. Charleston, July 7. A. married lady in St. Pauls has been in a trance for six weeks. Her brute of a husband refuses to send for a doctor. Why is a dog longer in the morning than at night ? Because you take him in at night, and let him out in the morning. Our American cousins are preparing a monster festival as a Beethoven centenary ; the scale of operations promised is even more extravagant than usual—a band and chorus of five thousand, with an audience of two millions to wit!