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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1336, 31 July 1883, Page 2

What will Gisborne look like under gas light ?is a question that is frequently asked now. 'There can be little doubt but what we shall at no distant date be able to satisfactorily answer this question by ocular demonstration. The improvements to our streets will be wonderful, Ladies will be able to venture abroad after sunset without grouping their way along, ami funning the danger of plunging, iu the dark, into a mud hole over their boot tups or endangering their lives and limbs by stumbling off the lootpath into the deep water ways. Then, as to the convenience of comfort at home ; it cannot be over-estimated. The house can b;' made bright and cheerful without the grossly offensive effluvia of the kerosene lamp that has a knack of foully smoking and then breaking the glass just at some critical moment when least expected. Then again what a blessing in summer to do away with all the smoke, dust, and heat of a wood or coal fire by just striking a match and igniting the gas in a neat, clean, and inexpensive gas stove, which requires no further feeding or stirring beyond the simple turning of a tap to regulate the amount of heat required, Then in winter time all the rooms, sitting and bed, can be easily made warm and snug at a small cost. In fact, so far as home comfort is concerned, the value of gas cannot be over-estimated. With respect to our stores the improvement in appearance and attractiveness must be beyond conception, whilst the saving of th-e time now devoted to trimming, filling, and lighting these imperfect nocturned illuminators, which generally give more smell than light, cannot fail to be appreciatively felt and recognised, to say nothing of the greater cleanliness and safety where it is necessary to bring costly and highly inflamnable goods in close proximity to the lights. Then as to our public balls and entertainments ; how brilliant and beautiful will the handsome dresses appear. To what perfection will the grace and adornments of the belle’s and charming maidens appear in the bright and clear light of gas. Charms will then be revealed and beauties brought out prominently, which have hitherto languished in the obscurity of a dim lamp. Then there will be increased light and comfort in our places of worship where it is now a difficult matter, unless possessed of the best of sight, to read one word of your prayer or hymn book. All this, and much more, will be altered. We may then also reasonably hope to have all our footpaths asphalted, as the only costly material (coal tar) in their formation could be obtained at a nominal price. Altogether the advent of gas in Gisborne is a thing to be most devoutly wished for by all classes of the community.