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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2163, 9 December 1875, Page 2

" An Independent Burgess "in a ietter to the advertiser published this morning, " cannot understand " a good deal, as is evident from his letter. Among other things he " cannot understand " that the part, or rather parts, - taken by His Worship the Mayor in connection with the recent visit of Sir George Grey to this town, were both compatible, and, we should have thought, easily comprehended by any person of even less than the averago ability. This inability to see things as they are, on the part of "An Independent Burgess" may arise from want oCwillingness on his. part, as we have read about " none being as blind as those who won't see," or it may arise, which .is equally probable, from sheer mental incapacity. In either case it is not much use explaining matters, but as there is. just a chance that he is neither wilfully perverse nor yet so very stupid as his letter would havo us suppose we may just as well state that in declining to be present at a meeting of those favourable to presenting an address to Sir George, Mr Davies exercised his discretion as a -private politician, and" that in taking the chair at a public meeting to which all were summoned (not those favorable only) to listen to Sir George as Superintendent, he but acted as was fitting proper ho should do in ]iisiniblic character of Mayor., As lo what

Mr Davies's capacity for Euclid may be we have no means of knowing, neither do wo imagiue has ' An Independent Burgess,' but his character for honesty of purpose and straight forward dealing ought at least to prevent him from being assailed by a charge of neglect in the leading halfcolumn of the Advertiser; and still further, from having that charge shifted to^ the columns of anonymous correspondence backed by impertinence as childish as it I is disgraceful.