FATAL LAMP EXPLOSION.
Unfortunately,"; lamp , are > bar-] comin(j : ratherfrequ6nt; 'and worse etillVife' is nob always property which suffers. Nob many months aince. we were horrified by. tho of the South Australian Minister of Lands, caused; by the bursting of a railway lamp, the burning oil from which ignited hie clobhing. A later victim is Lord'Romiliy, who ab the Egerton Gardens fire, .The London " Times," in reporting fche«matfeer, says :,. " liord Romilly accidentally upset the lamp, and was ..rendered", insensible by the fumes of the burning oil." Tka "Daily News," on the other hand, simply poinbs to the accident as ilhistratingj."tno danger of using .petroleum lamps." The danger, of course, cannot., be entirely eradicated, but iti can be minimised by using Luxeno, tho " Bate light." Common low test kerosene gives' Use Luxene, which is freer from .smoke and smell, gives a softer, purer light, and'ijurn&.less.anickly. :
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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 245, 15 October 1891, Page 3
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