To the Ratepayers and small Voteholders of Shanghai.
Gexresex,—Remember that on Wednesday morning, the 7th instant, at the Astor Hall the' important matter of the proposed purchase of the New Electric Light Ca., by your Municipal Councillors will be decided by public vote.
It is hardly necessary for the writer to recall to your memory the fact that complaints have been numerous for mar years back against the inferiority of the g supplied to you by the present Gas Ca. Ivis only reasonable to suppose that the defect referred to could have been remedied without any serious loss to the Company. Why Because as you all know their shares have been, and ate now, at a very high i fact so high, that you house-been, I may say, debarred from purchasing and participating in the very good dividends which come out of your I know in the hands of a very limited number of persons, the majority of who are at home "resting on a bed of ros They stick to these shares and I do not blame them, you or I would probably do the same under similar circumstances, But T blame you, and most assuredly you will blame yourselves in the near future, if do not now unite for your mutual ben and vote for the Light ut the Futare, Remember that if you purchase the Light Cv.' Pixnt, you will have a ithicut either smell or bent, t destroy your house decorations or furniture. You will have" light supplied to you at the actual cost, under the able supervision of the reutlemen you select yearly as your Lunicipal Councillors.
Bear in mind that if you allow the holders of the objectionable proxy votes of the absentee gas shareholders to have the pro posal referred to rejected, then the chances are that the Electric Light Eu, will be purchased by the wealthy gas shareholders and you will have to accept what kind of light" they chouse to offer you in the future.
Beat in mind that you holders of only one oF twa votes, are becoming numerically stronger every year, and that it is now your opinions bore weight in the Mut meetings of the settlement In the past you have been ruled by the proxy votes of wealthy absentees in the hands of a few: in the present you are quite strong enough to oppose them if you unite and attend this r as it is Your duty to do, buth to yourselves and tu the Rewensex, Usrry 14 sreesorn, Shan hai 5th June.
Holloway'" Ointment and Pills.—With the changing season it is prudent for all to rectify any ailment afflicting them; but it is incumbent on the ai fering under ulcerations and similar debilitating causes, to have them removed or worse consequences will follow. This Ointment is their remedy; on its powers all may confidently rely; it not simply puts their sores out of sight, but extirpates the source of mischief, extracts the corroding poison, and stimulates nature to fill up the ulcer with sound, healthy granulations, that will abide through life. Under this treatment bad legs soon become sound, scorbutic skins cast off their scales, and scrofulous sores cease to annoy. Such hope for the disease was unknown in former days, 40
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