Street Lighting.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1041, 25 February 1882, Page 2

Street Lighting.

Now that the lighting of the streets of G isborne is under the consideration of the local Borough Council, the following remarks from the columns of the Waikato Times, will not be out of place:—“As population increases,”; says our contemporary, “the residents of the Waikato towns will have to cast about them for an efficient means of lighting their streets. In Cambridge, indeed, wo already know that preliminary steps have been taken wilh a view to the introduction of gas. It would be advisable, however, before taking final measures, for the inhabitants to assure themselves that no substitute for gas which would combine with the same degree of efficiency a much smaller expense is obtainable*. The town of Chesterfield, England,

has just been lighted wilh what is known as the ‘English’ lamp, which lias been patented by Mr A. Kelly, ?vlark Lane, London. It is claimed for this lamp that it gives a belter light than gas at a greatly reduced price, the average economy as against gas being 65 per cent. All cost of pipe laying, &e., is of course avoided, and unlike oilier oil lamps it docs not require a glass chimney. The cnginecer of the Sligo, Leitreim and Northern Counties Railway writing to the patentee and proprietor sajs: ‘I am greatly pleased with the 4 English’ Lamp you sent, me for trial, and regret our arrangements for lighting plat- I forms (I only just learn) have been I made by the anthorilies. 'The arrange-! monts are very pleasing to me in the I design for admission and emission of | air, and the automatic shutters very i simple and effective. I tried it last; night, a very windy night, and in an . exposed situation, without tho least fluctuation in the flame. I shall be certain to bear it iu mind if, in tho ■

future, I am in a position to adopt it, and in the meantime have written to ihe Borough Engineer of a neighboring town of some 6000 inhabitants, which is replacing gas with paraffin !!! recommending it to him strongly, but not more than I consider it deserves.’ A trial of these lamps could be made, and their merits thoroughly tested at very little expense. The New Zealand agents are Messrs Oppenheimer and Co., of Auckland.