the Editor of the "Nomti-CHINA Datty News."
Sim,—Of course there will be! higher telephone rates, but isn't, the Company in rather an undignified hurry to rush things through the two Councils, without first giving he general public (from whom, be remembered, the Company obtains Its franchise) 'a chance to properly up the position? Or is the haste on the part of the Councils themselves, for some reason?
The new Telephone Franchise ha only been running for less than tw. years, and already the Company is squealing out that it cannot make sufficient profit out of the monopoly which it fought so hard to obtain, and which it secured on practically its own terms:
Tt was freely suggested at the
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