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t e' gue waterworks system of that city." r)2 water supply is in the hands of a & ate company, which was chartered | fore the passage of the law pro-- viding for a reference to arbitration when the municipality desires to take the service over,. That is the position at the present time in Stratford, but the company is not willing to give up its franchise. Representatives of the city asked that tue Government should take steps to bring the company under | the provisions of the arbitration law, and the request was opposed by repre-- sentatives of the company. There ap-- peared on behalf of the city Mayor | O'Donoghue, Mr. John Idington, Q.C., City Solicitor, City Surveyor Van \ Buskirk and Ald. Hephurn, Van Stone, Gillespie and MacLeod. The company . was represented by the President, Mr. John Corrie, Hon. Thos. Ballantyne and Mr. John MeIntyre, directors. . _ The Standing Orders Committee met to--day and elected Dr. McKay (Oxford) Chairman. 4 qunmsmemnmamemmmnememmmammaan