A NEW ILLUMINANT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 9511, 5 September 1891, Page 6

A NEW ILLUMINANT.

In no branches of industry has greater progress been made during the last decade than in the arts and sciences appertaining to the production and supply of artificial illumination. Electricity, although it has been used for lighting purjpses. as far back as five-and-twenty years ago, has only come into public usS cluring the last tea years. But although the expense and uncertainty of this means of lighting has militated against its general adoption, yet it has given a wonderful impetus to the various bran/hes of gas and oil illumination, ■ and instead of the miserable flickering lights we Vere formerly compelled to put. up with, wb have both gas and oil-lamps which rival the electric light in brilliancy.: Illuminating by means of oil must neces- ■ sarilyihold its place where gas is not available, but even in the latter case a largo number of people prefer oil to gas in point - both of/economy and health. Great improvements have been made in oil lamps, ard ev/iry effort has been made to produco impro red oils. Our readers will be interested and pleased to learn that a new illumina-. ting oil has just been put on the market, • which bids fair to supersede the ordinary kerosene entirely. It is known by the a name of “ Luxene/' and is absolutely- / white in colour. It is an illuminant of the highest test, is absolutely safe, is free from' smell when burning, and is more lasting, and therefore more economical than. ordinary kerosenes. We cannot too strongly , warn consumers against the false economy • and danger of using cheap kerosenes, which are at any time liable to explosion; nor can we too'strongly urge the use of a good oil; and in this connection it seems to us that the purchasers of '* Luxene " will have no cause for regret. All Grocers and > Storekeepers.