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General News.

To win a wager of 100 guineas, an Jinglish manufacturer lately accomplished the following remarkable feat of textile manufacture:-Two sheep were brought to the factory at Ere o'clock in the mornine. Here they were shorn,, the wool scoured, dried, pressed, and finished at 4 p.m. Th© cloth was then banded to the tailors, and at 30 minutes before 9 o'clock a coat was made a»d the wager won. An important new departure ia railway lighting is reported from the district where the passenger railway bad its birth --the Liverpool and Manchester line of the London and North-Western Company. This is the utilisation of electricity for lighting the carnages by the help of fewau a incandescent 20*eandIe power lamps, and Brotherhood's patent engine | stationed on the tender, and fed with steam from the locomotive boiler, locomotive, bomg specially t« B a for this service. rfl through the train, and back to the locomotive,, where, fized to the footplate, is a regulator fitted with an elect^ZZl lttl al% dT 6Vthe P°wei: of light in Ji»2^ ? Uh - du Pli(»^ tamp, the,arrangement securing tkeiastant lighting of extinfeel ** **** *h°M **".

Fsb Hop Stttars once and you will me noother me&cme. T 6st ifc. Be sure and Yea& Thb easiest way to pay your gM bill it ft*. buy Eeroßene from McGcutak,

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/THS18841031.2.18

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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4933, 31 October 1884, Page 2

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General News. Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4933, 31 October 1884, Page 2

General News. Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4933, 31 October 1884, Page 2

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