A WARNING TO PUBLISHERS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1637, 17 February 1886, Page 4

A WARNING TO PUBLISHERS.

LOOK OUT FOB .THE SWINDLE.

BSAR Sibs : Having received from maut 01 the Australian and New Zealand "■"•publishers, (for my investigation and approval) an advertising proposal sent them by a New York concern under the name of "PEMBEBTOK, AYEB & C 0.." v)fEerin!2r a doubte-o.o!umn;advertiseraent of the '' Nob- • man Electric Lic^ht C 0.," of P"hiW' delph'ia. Pa., to bo' inserted "m all numbers of yoitr paper for three months," 1 have investigated the character of these concerns, (both " Ageucy " and advertisers) and find them both unmitigated frauds and swindles. . The Press of tho countries, named, I fear,* have been largely takeu m by these impostors, and may have unwittingly l«jd their raiders to make remittances to the Philadelphia concern ; if so, they may render a valuable service t» the public by caution:iDg them against the impostors. - il append a telegraphic dispatch which appeared m the New York Tribune of Jau vary 6,th, 1886. : ■'' * Yours, m behalf of' "Honest Advertising, ; : H. P. HUBBARD. New Haven, Jan. 7, 1886. [From the New York Tribune, Jan., 1886. J The "Norman Electric Light Company." 1 - Philadelbhia\ ; Jan, sth, (Special),-4- . Mayor Smith this morning received a letter from thelnspector-Grenerai of Police ot New South '-Wale^ ,'and a citizen ofNe^ Zealand, asking particulars about the "Norman Electric Light Company, of Philadelphia,"^ which has i been advertisidg extensively, itf Sydney and other parts of ■ tne colony. The authorities answered thnt the company is doubtless one of the schemes of Einil Basset of. New ._. York, who under, the< name pf Marsh Sassett, was" detected m caiTying on la bogus watch business m this city and is now awaiting trial m the United States' Court . '