PORTABLE GAS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1886, 2 May 1889, Page 3

PORTABLE GAS.

A novelty in gaa lighting has been recently introduced here by the firm of Gray and Lester, a visit to whose establishment in St Andrew street will be well repaid. They are the representatives of Messrs D. Keeley and Co., of Sydney, and the specialty which they are now placing before us is an assortment of portable and other lamps constructed for the burning of Mr Keeley's wonderful "coal gas." The qualities of this gas are almost incredible until one hears them described and sees them actually tested, which Messrs Gray and Lester are always willing to oblige any visitor by doing. The " gaa " is first shown in a liquid state—in its form of gas oil. A small reservoir at the top of the lamp is filled with this oil, which, passing through an ordinary metal branch, emerges from Keeley's patent burner at the end in the form of gas, and that gas of extraordinarily high illuminating power. In addition to its light-giving power, the oil has the great advantages of being perfectly clean and remarkably safe. As instances of the first of these qualities a person may wash his bands in it, or sprinkle any quantity over his clothes, without there being a trace of it perceptible in the shape of either | smell or stain a minute afterwards. I As to its safety the strongest proof lies in the fact that a quantity spilt on a carpet, oilcloth or even a sheet of paper—so long as it is on a flat surface—can be ignited with a match, and will immediately evaporate without injuring the fabric in the slightest degree and without leaving smell or stain behind, It is claimed that the light produced is superior to that of ordinary gas, yefc costs the consumer less money. It can be applied with ease and at small expense to ordinary gas chandeliers, or chandeliers specially constructed for its use can bo obtained from Messrs Gray and Lester, as also can bracket wall lamps, and all sorts of portable lamps at prices to suit persons of all degrees and means. The firm have already disposed of a large number, and have 1 had lo send to Sydney fqv a further I supply.—Dunedin Star.