The Archive · 1900

The Telephone Question

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Dear Sin,—Your recent leader on this subject was se fair and impartial that 1 haje that you will allow me to say a few words, The Cornell announced thatin aceordanes with their advertisement. three tenders for the telephone: franchise were sent in before the 13th alti After a mont delay, which about completes a eration aver a question ber of the Council own privy hours, the slephone Ca. Lat Ist. Whet cover the whol 2nd,—Whether any other com tions sed het the Connell, ated any tual Ca, which Have not been published 2 And if so will they be inde Bed—Is the Council wilh the whole of what themeelees, and of either of the twa pited betwoon ihiers for the fran The Shanghai Mutual Telephone Company, has bound itself toa maximum rate for 10 years, but.whit is to prevent his owing ineresed after the expiry of that oad?

Tr has accepted ne franchise, and L presume it centd therefore withers sere vice at its pleasure, or by threatening to do the public to purchase the whole structed underground parently thrown on aid system is to take Council has very, from its former posi-to the printed book Mr. Obe ing routes of 100 lines in any whereas my Company was amount on their sel the max mum posit of Ths. 10,000 is Len of the same supany's tender, that the determined stand in the Tom

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