STREET LIGHTING.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1497, 7 February 1882, Page 2

STREET LIGHTING.

As population increases the residents of the Waikato towns will have to cast about them for an efficient means of lighting their streets. In Cambridge, indeed, we already know that pi'eliminary steps have been taken with a view to the introduction ot gas. It would be advisable, however, before taking final measures, for the inhabitaiits to assure themselves that no substitute for gas which would combine with the same degree of efficiency a much smaller expence is obtainable. The town of Chesterfield, England, has just been lighted with what is known as the " English "lamp, whichhas been patented by Mr A. Kelly, Mark Lane, London. It is claimed for this lamp that # gives a better light than gas at a greatly reduced price, the average - economy as against gas being 65 per cent. All cost of pipe laying, &c, is of course avoided, and unlike other oil lamps it does not require a glass chimney. The engineer of the Sligo, Leitreim and Northern Counties Railway writing to the patentee and proprietor says: — "I am greatly pleased with the " English" Lamp you sent me for trial, and regret our arrangements for lighting platforms (I only just learn) have been made by the authorities. The arrangements are very pleasing to me in the design for admission and emission of air, and the > automatic shutters very simple and effective. I tried it last night, a /very windy night, and in an exposed situation, without the least fluctuation infthe flame , I shall be certain to bear it "in mind if, in thefuture, I am in a position, to adopt it, and in the meantime'have written to the Borough Eneineer of a neighbouring town .of some 6000 inhabitants, which is replacing gas with paraffin! ! ! - recommending /it 3x>f- him <Btronglyi but iiot more than I consider it . deserves. "• A trial of these \ lamps / could be made, and^ their' merits; thoroughly .tested "at very little,' expanse., T^e' New agents Jare'MesW.i Oppenheimer^

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