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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 39, 23 February 1878, Page 3

A prospectus will shortly be issued mvi: ' ting-shares m a company to be formed, for j the purpose of supplying Beef ton. with gas. \. The works would, be situated m, the low.er- ' part of the fcownwhere an.eKgibh3 sit^ \xouldi ! have to be procured. - The necessary data. i are.being. compiled to show, the cost of plant,, 'laying mains, apd i m^nufactjur.e,. together i with, the probable, consumption, and when. these have been prepared, the full - details 1 wpll bp laid before thp public. J^t appears, •as an. additional indupempnt:, that a new plant imported for the Mosgiel Woolten Facj tory Company is obtainableon exceptionally: favourable terms, so that should yieindpcejmpnt be sufficient,, a company could comr mence operations without loss of time. On : the grounds of convenienpe,. cleanliness^ and safety, g^s, possesses inestimable advantages over thepreisent means- of-' lighting, and" if ito this is added, prrobably economic con- ' sideratipnß, there can be little doubt bub that the; project will' meet with a favourable s receptipn.r-f ' Inangahua Herajd."' • j A tipmp: was arrested, taken before a magistrate, ands sentenced; forthree mpnths. The justice m. explaining- the- sentence, re-. marked; that while, there was no evidence, 'that the. prisoner had been guilty of arty crime> he-thought itprudent to commit him, ! as. he. had; the wild» haggard, look Qf a, man. i about to.stapt a hevspfiper.;