THE ELECTRIC LIGHT.
The uti’ity of electric lights for ocean steamers was forcibly illustrated during the last voyage of the Faraday from New Yook it would seem that during a thick fog near the banks of Newfoundland, at ten o’clock at night, she suddenly discovered a laige emigrant sailing ship underneath her bows The brilliance of Dr Siemen’s electric light revealed the danger just in time to enable the Captain to reverse the engines and the two ships passed each oher at the distance of a few feet. The sceams of the women and children who had hurriedly collected on deck, indicated the hopelessness of the situation in so far as they were concerned, anil it is morally certain that the lamps ordinarily used by Transatlantic steamships would have failed to penetrate the fog suf fieently to have made it possible to prevent a collision, and moie than a hundred lives might have been lost.—The World.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 873, 10 January 1879, Page 3
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