GAS FROM ARTESIAN PIPES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 614, 17 September 1909, Page 7

GAS FROM ARTESIAN PIPES.

. BTJBNS WITH A TELLOW FLAME, (Uy Tclcuraph—Prxw Association,! „ Christchurch, September 10. Some time ago Mr. J. J. Collins, 0 f tho fire oi Collins and Harman, of this city, wliil inspecting some alterations at the Jubile 'Home, Woolston, turned on a radiator to leading indirectly from tho artesian supply in order to let out an accumulation of .air Having read of lighting gas being obtainei from artesian bores, he applied a match to th vent, and a tongue of yellow flamo shot on and continued until the water issued from th tap. Tho same result followed several repeti tions of tho experiment, and, in addition, Mi Collins _ has discovered that tho gas in th water-pipes at Ilia own house is similarly in flammable. Ho has arranged to obtain a quan tity of gas for testing for Dr. Evans, Frofesso of Chemistry at Canterbury College. Dr. Chilton, Professor of Biology, on bein questioned said that ho had not heard of in flammable gas emanating from any nrtcsiai bores in New Zealand, but the circumstanc was by no means uncommon in other parts o the world, and several f.itics were lighted fron natural supplies obtained in this way. . Th presence of gas was due to the dpr.om'pasitioi of .earths and minerals at doep levels. It i assumed the presence of tho gas in ' th' Walsr-pipcs, as described by Mr. Collins, i not often evident locally, on account of th< artesian water being usually aerated befon led iatn pljoa for domestic conaunuitian