The Chia & Japan Telephone Shanghai, 2nd Dean §in,—Referriag toReeolution Number eight which she Benizigal Council ere to bring formerd 03 the forthoominy Ratapayera maet= ing that is to bs hal? ea *he 20th last., Z have to request you to be good enough to ask the Council to publish the correspondence that has taken' place about the telephone service here so that the public may be made cou-versant with the facts.
T take this opportunity, of advising you that, I burs ordered two new western electric scritchbosrdr, cad a mile of tristed metallic cable, 20, that the public may realise within a few-months what the improvement is likely to be before granting a Franchise to the Company I represent, or to any one else. I venture also to point out which I have omitted to do in my previous letters. that, owing to the large amount of building that hes been going on here since 1890, not only my Company haul to enifer considerable changing positions of poles, and wires, but we have further had to bear the on of the interruptions that have necessarily followed those alterations, and expenses. Faithfully yours, E. E. Porter, Manager.
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