Excerpt from The Investors' Review, Vol. 13: January 2, 1904 June 25, 1904 Evidently Stock Exchange speculators imagined that the ratepayers were to be robbed in the most artistic fashion for their special benefit, prices being hoisted to absurd heights during the first half of the past year, and the gamblers received a nasty jar when the board offered the East London Company just over GBP2, ooo, ooo for all its works and paraphernalia in place of the de manded. An alarming slump in market values naturally followed this offer, but a large part of. The fall has been recovered since the first three awards were made known, and we can only indulge in the hope that readers interested followed the advice given in these columns and not only refrained from speculative buying on the chance of making a profit, but also were not induced to sell in the fear that a fair price would not be forthcoming. Now as to the awards. Those at present made are in connection with the East Lon-don, Grand Junction, and West Middlesex Companies, and we first propose to set out the outstanding capital and claims of the undertakings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.