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New Zealander, Volume XVIII, Issue 1740, 8 November 1862, Page 8

GAS APPARATUS FOR PRIVATE USE, FACTORIES, TOWNS, AND CITIES. STEAM ENGINES, BOILERS AND CASTINGS. MR. BOWER, of St. Ncots, England, is the Manufacturer of Gas Apparatus of all dimensions. He has in stock the plant <or all sizes from 20 up to 2000 lights, and he will deliver an order within one month from receipt of it. Testimonials and references to a selected list of 100 out of a great number of Gas Works erected by him in England and various parts of Europe, together with calculations of the cost of gas—specifications—price lists and other particulars, will be forwarded on application. With coal at 50s. per ton, gas may be manufactured where 50 lights arc required, burning for eight or 100 for four hours per day, at Bs. per 1000 cubic feet:—the price of this apparatus is £135. With 500 lights burning eight or 1000 burning for four hours per day, at ss. 6d. per 1000 cubic feet:—the price of this apparatus is £640. Delivery—free in London inclusive of packing and cases. These estimates of cost of gas allow for wear and tear—five per cent, for capital and three per cent, for renewing plant when worn out. The pipe with fittings for factory use may be taken »o cost an average of £1 per light, f. o. b. in London. Although coal is the best material for gas-making yet it may be made from cotton or other seed—peat—bark wood—oil—in tiict, any thing that will burn with a Hume. Mr. Bower supplies cast iron pipe,—lamp columns and brackets,—wrought and composition tube,—meters, —and gas fittings in general. In ordering it will be well to give a [dan to scale, of the factory or house, showing the positions assigned for the gas works and of the lights. It is also necessary to state the longest time the lights will be burning per night. Instructions tor fixing and plans, &c., forwarded with the hills of lading. Plans, Specifications and Estimates prepared for the Lighting of Towns and Cities. Mr. Bower manufactures Steam Engines —vertical and horizontal —fixed and portable, and executes Mechanical Engineering work in general,—equal to any house both as regards price and workmanship. Boilers—Cornish and tubular—of the best plate and proved to a high pressure. Tanks, Girders, and other wrought iron work. Castings of all kinds from drawings, and at moderate prices. Tkbms:—Credit up to four months by the acceptance of a first-class house in England, or 2 per cent, discount tor cash, against bill of lading, on presentation to a London Banker, GEO. BOWER, Engineer and Contractor, St. Ncots, Hunts., England,

Gospel Oak Galvanized Tinned Iron. (Formerly sold under the name of Morewood and Rogers’ Patent.) nnUE only Prize Medal granted in the Galvanized J. Iron Trade at the International Exhibition, 1802, was awarded to the Proprietors of the “GOSPEL OAK WORKS,” TIPTON, STAFFORDSHIRE, For “ the excellent quality of their Sheets.** Supplied through all London Merchant*. WILLIAM LEE, Agent, 74, King William-street, London, WHEELER AND WILSON’S SEWING MACHINES have received the FIRST-CLASS PRIZE MEDAL at the WORLD’S EXHIBITION, London, 1862. VENNARD AND STEVENS, Sole Agents, have much pleasure in intimating that the above important intelligence has been received by the August English mail, which stamps Wheeler and Wilson’s Sewing Machines as SUPERIOR TO ALL OTHERS. No excuse can, therefore, exist, with all the late improvements and reductions in prices, for buying an inferior machine. SHOW-ROOMS, 212, ITTT-STREET, Sydney. WILLOW HOUSE. HOMEOPATHIC INSTITUTE, ALBERT-STREET, AUCKLAND, BETWEEN VICTORIA AND WELLESLET-STREETB. MR. WILLIAM WILLSON at Home for Consultation between the hours of 8 a. m., and 1 o’clock p. in., (Sundays included). LETTERS OF ADVICE, WITH MEDICINE ENCLOSED, PE* I DOST TO ANY FART OF NEW ZEALAND. Institute fees, paid in ftdTaaaa;— Mcdicine included. One Week One Month Three Months Six Months Visits to Patients at their Houses within the limit of the City, 2s. 6d. extra. Advice to the poor, gratis, between the hours of 8 and 9 o’clock, a. m. HOMOEOPATHIC BOOKS, CASES OF GLOBULES, AND CHESTS OF TINCTURES, SUPPLIED FOR FAMILY USE. Single Tubes of Globules or Bottles of Tinctures, Is. each. Pure Homoeopathic Cocoa, Gd., Is., and 2s. a Packet. Toothache! fTHNCTURE for procuring instantaneous relief Jl from Toothache. Sold by T. Delattrs, Homoeopathic Pharmaceutist, Queen street. Young Men’s Christian Association, DURHAM-STREET. THE advantages offered by this Institution are a comfortable Reading Room, supplied with the leading English and Colonial Papers, Magazines, Quarterlies, &c. Private Rooms for Correspondence, Business purposes, and study, supplied with Bank Cheques, Stationery, Works of Reference, &c. Refreshments can be had in the Rooms at moderate charges. A well-selected Library of 1,500 Volumes, to which an addition has recently been made. Amongst the Books will be found:— Du Chnillu’s Adventures in Equatorial Africa Livingtone’s Travels Tenncnt’s Natural History of Ceylon The Wide Wide World Say and Seal Boswell’s Life of Johnson The Desert and the Bush The Woman in White The Four Georges—W. M. Thackeray M’Clintock’s Voyage of the ‘ Fox’ Dr. Doran’s Table Traits; and Habits and Men Autobiography of Lord Dundouald Curiosities of Civivization, Dr. Wynter Memorials of Sergeant Marjourum The Works of Sydney Smith Lord Macaulay’s Speeches, Essays, and History The Pickwick Papers Thomson’s New Zealand Kingsley’s Miscellanies Peninsular Scenes and Sketches Family Romance and the Vicissitudes of Families, by Sir Bernard Burke Tom Brown’s School Days The Words of the Angels—Sticr The Speeches of Gratton, Burke, Curran, Fox, Sheridan, Erskino, &c. Chambers’s Repository, Misccllaney, Papers, &c. Wilson’s Talcs of the Borders Tales of Women’s Trials—Mrs. J. C. Hall The Leisure Hour, and Sunday at Home And various other Works of popular interest, on Scientific, Religious, Historical, and General Subjects. Annual Subcription:— 10s., payable (if desired) half-yearly or quatorlv. Lady Subscription (to the Lihraay only), ss. per annum. Honorary Subscribers, M\. J. JACKSON, AKIM Swftfoty,