The Electric Light.
The Lyttelton -limes 84ys-:— The following extract from «• letter received this week by the Suez mail may be of interest to those who are anxiously watcuing the developemnt of ; the electric light. The writer has been travelling through great Britain, and is at present on the Continent. He ha? thus had considerable opportunities for: acquiring the latest and most reliable information on the present vexed question of gas v. electricity. Besides giving his own opinion of the matter, the gentleman above referred to (lately, a resident m this Province) mentions the significant fact that " gas is looking" up again. For some time back the electric light shares have been persistently declining m value (many of them not selling for half what they did a few months ago), while the gas shares Have advanced to a considerable amount. A. goed many large establishments which tried the electric light have reverted to the old gas, while throughout the whole of England there is only one town — Chesterfield, I believe — lighted with the light, and there it is not a snocess."
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 71, 28 February 1883, Page 2
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181The Electric Light. Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 71, 28 February 1883, Page 2
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