FATAL LAMP EXPLOSION.
Unfortunately, lamp explosions ars becoming rather frequent; and worse still, ib is not always property which suffers. Nob many months since we were horrified by the particulars of the South Australian Minister of Lands, caused by the bursting of a railway lamp, the burning oil from which ignited his clothing. A later victim is Lord Romilly, who lost -hie life at the Egerton Gardens fire. The London "Times," in reporting the matter, • says : " Lord Romilly accidentally upset the lamp, and was rendered insensible by the fumes of the burning oil." Tae "Daily News," on the obher hand, simply poinfas to the accident as illustrating " the danger of using petroleum lamps." The danger, of course, cannob bo entirely eradicated, but it can be minimised by using Luxene, the " eaie light." Common low tasb keroaene gives no security. Use Luxone, which is freer from smoke and smell, gives a softer, purer light, and burns less auickly.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 250, 21 October 1891, Page 7
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