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This Afternoon Heathcote School Scandal. Christchurch.—The inquiry into the Lower Heathcote School scandal by the Royal Commission has begun. The formal evidence on behalf of the Board of Education was taken first, and the Rev Mr Wilkes, the discharged master, was then examined. A lawyer attended for the board and the school committee, but Mr Wilkes was not represented by counsel. Cheap New' Gas 17th. To-night, in the presence of reporters and two medical gentlemen, Mr Binnie, of Maori Hill, gave an exhibition of the lighting capabilities of his new gas, for which be has taken out a patent in Australia and New Zealand. He has sold the former. The gas is manufactured out -of air, water, and ordinary beef or mutton fat. He has bad it burning in his private house for twelve months. The light is pure, clear, and white, and more powerful than that of Dunedin gas. It has no smell. The cost is very small, running from Is 3d to 2s per thousand feet.
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Patea Mail, 19 July 1882, Page 3
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