YOUR "SPECIAL" IN REPLY.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 151, 1 October 1872, Page 5

YOUR "SPECIAL" IN REPLY.

To the Editor of the Cromwell Argus. Sir,—l was surprised to Mod that my report in your paper of the late Spring Race meeting at the Dunstan was made the subject of over a coin nn of adverse criticism, seasoned with scurrilous personalities, iu the last issue of the Dunstan Tim's. Nothing in the four letters there printed is particularly worthy of reply in e'eni il; but I m iy be allowed to disabuse the mind of my Dunstau critic in regard to the m >tives which he s.) ingeniously invents and assigns to me. I was not in the slightest hurry to get home, which is evidenced by the fact that I remained in Clyde until ten o'clock, at 1 ast; and further, I "droppvl" no money, either at " Yankee grab," or upon " the wrjng horse." 1- or the information of this writer in quadruplicate, 1 may also state fiat the tone of my report was induced by the hit tint, whereas 1 went to the meeting iu search of and promising mvso!f enjovraent, T returned "disappointed, dejected, and disgusted." In reference go anything fursher in the letters, »ne can hardly reply to such gibberish as the following which I take verba'Ln el literatim, from on? of them : " perhaps the dust tiresh of that region was not cleared frow his visions vhen viewing the Dunstan Race meeting of IS7-V' In cinclusion, might I s;igges L , with all humility, t> the elitor of tin Dantan Times, that when the truth riles hi n, his tira las, under the guise of letters from correspondents, have but the alfe t of ren le'ing that trnth the more apparent : -omethi'ig "short, sharp, an 1 decisive" would be much more to the purpose he has in I say this in the interests of his readers, who wiij doubtless r.3gret the exclusion of the greatly more interesting matter he usually lavs before them.—l am. sc.,. "SrE'UL."