Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] Being the extended title of the Wairarapa Daily, with which it is identical SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1893.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4400, 22 April 1893, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] Being the extended title of the Wairarapa Daily, with which it is identical SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1893.

SECOND EDITION

Tkz • eiodern developments of electricity aw surprising. A Whareama resident -*snid to ub sto other day " Why not connect Tenui with Masterton by ail electric wire road ?" The aiibwer to thiß does not lie in the difficul .v of constructing an elevated track rith cars ran by electricity, but merely in the question of expense. &.n electric light company has invaded . New Zealand which would cheerfully undertake a project oi this kind if it were paid to do go. Steel cables in a line of this character are suspended to rows of posts running over hill and dale, above surface traffic, serosa even a ruu, beyond the reach of man or bollock. Oars elide along the cables each carrying two or three tons of produce. The electricity gauerat'dby water power propels the cars backwards or forwards at a speed of twenty miles an hour. The system is clean, smokeless, cinderless, and almost noiseless and we could almost wish that it woulS supersede the railway from Mastertom to Wellington, Still electricity is an expensive motor as yet and we are not certain that the time has arrived for its introduction into this district to bring the Whareama woo! to the Maatesrton Railway Station. In Italy the Tivoli cataraots-situated seventeen miles' out of Borne are utilised for generating electricity for the are lights of the Eternal City. In England what is called the 1 'Telpher Lino'.! of electrio oars has been established: on Lord Hampden's estate' for seven years; .-with great success. There is no limit, excepting cost, to the use of electro forces. In America they, ate said to be applied to cooking; each cooking utensil is its own fireplace. A wire connected with an elootrio heater ia switched on to a pot or a pan and previa the magnetised sauoepan begins to boil,or tha electri-; ned fry pan. to fry. In the dim. and : 'distant future, a cook wULbare no smoke, dirt, or dust to oonteiiS with ; and th« traveller, instead of ssrnvia g in Wellington ;«■ if he had just come uji from the lowest laval of a coal pit, will; sail In serenely on; an aerial sac gliding aloag. eablss frea from all noise, worry, and annoyance. Possibly, electricity 'has little drawbacks 01 its: own. If, on a telpher line tha power got oh to tha paste nhy auy. mischance instead of the car 'wh^ts : it ±b»m; up sbmewhat, or- if in and aofc the saucepan baaaaaawtaliad * Oil to 4h® Ueatw. there mightb? a Sis-1

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