A TRIBUTE OF REGARD.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2161, 7 December 1875, Page 2

A TRIBUTE OF REGARD.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.)

Sib, —I hare not the inestimable felicity of knowing Mr Speight. Permit me to thank him for the information conveyed to the electors, viz., that Sir George will stand for the Thames. I feel highly delighted at Sir George Grey selecting for his confidant a Thames gentleman so well known and so universally admired as Mr Speight, the brilliant and accomplished President of the Juvenile Debating Society. As I before remarked, I hare not the honor of his acquaintance except through the press reporting the debates of-that interesting society. With the liveliest feelings of satisfaction I hare perused the debates on the most momentous questions affecting the human race, and I may say they were settled with a rapidity and decision that astonished and delighted me. Exhaustive in argument, and masterly in tone, Mr Speight leads ' his hearers, and subdues them by his eloquence. I was positirely enchanted when I read in your evening's issue we stand a slight chance of securing the services of this accomplished genius. As a humble student of the workings of nature,, may I beg Mr Speight to introduce for his next debate the following :— If an irresistible body comes in contact with an immovable .body, what would be the result? And what is the difference between Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee? If Mr Speight would only settle these questions future generations would make pilgrimages to his tomb. Continue, my dear Mr Speight, to inform the electors of Sir George Grey's intentions, and accept my distinguished regard?.—l am, &c,

Reddish,

Fisherman, Shortland.