PATEA COUNTY MAIL PUBLISHED Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1880. GAS OIL.
Gas for lighting beacons and buoys at sea has been applied in some English rivers, notably the Thames : and in the Melbourne harbor the buoys are to be lighted with gas made from oil by a self-operative process, A similar arrangement may be seen at some hotels in this colony. The night lamp in front of the Albion Hotel at Patea is fitted with a reservoir of oil in the hollow rim round the top of the lamp, and this oil feeds a sort of gas-burner, which when once heated will evaporate the oil passing through it, and the vaporised oil is an inflammable gas which burns with the steadiness and brilliancy of good coalgas. The cost is estimated to bo about equal to a kerosino oil light, with much greater brilliancy. This arrangement has been long in use at the tops of coal mines in England : and is especially adapted to street-lighting in small towns which have not coal-gas.’ Half-a-dozen such lamps would be a boon in Patea on moonless nights, and other townships in the district might feel sufficiently envious to imitate this communal luxury. The subject is worth considering by Town Boards in anticipation of next winter.
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Patea Mail, 23 October 1880, Page 2
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214PATEA COUNTY MAIL PUBLISHED Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1880. GAS OIL. Patea Mail, 23 October 1880, Page 2
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