November 15.
'Tux attendance at the Special Meeting of Ratepayers yesterday afternoon, which constituted a record for any similar gathering in Shang-was a striking' proof of the extent to which public feeling has been stirred by recent events. Six hundred and twenty-one Ratepayers wore present, aggregating in all one thousand and thirty-five votes. Of these the bulk bad m: festly come to the Town Hall with their minds made up on the point thut it would be better to restrict the new By-laws to plague, but entirely in the hands of anyone who would lead them in regard to the form that the restriction should take. The Municipal Council, as the (hair-man explained in - his opening speech, had subordinated its opinion to that of the Health Department, and in submitting the proposed By-laws for the ratification of Ratepayers sheltered itself behind the counsels of perfection advocated by
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