THE LATE ELECTION.
(To the-Editor of. the Evening Star.) .? Sirr^-The result of yesterday's election seems _ to" have ( surprised a good many. „ "Among .the ' causes tending to produce-that result Iccarn r point' out one, yiz., the late Mayor's persistent opp'osi-
tion to any improvement in the Shortland Cemetery. The writer has actual knowledge of many who refrained from voting for Davies on this account alone. Were the site of the cemetery as unsuitable as he assumes it to be, there are still over a thousand graves there, and perhaps a thousand people are interested in seeing, that the road and the place are not wholly neglected. For the future let him (and indeed his successor too); learn not to ig*;! nore the feelings of the lessdemohstrative / portion of the community, for though they make no noise at elections, their votes tett.-~-T&wj i&c, One who thinks fob Himself,
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2170, 17 December 1875, Page 3
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146THE LATE ELECTION. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2170, 17 December 1875, Page 3
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