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New Zealander, Volume XXII, Issue 2471, 1 July 1865, Page 3

To the Editor of the New-Zealaxdeb,

Sib, —As you justly claim the title of the " People's Paper," I take the liberty of addressing you on what is now the "people's" complaint, trusting you will call attention to the subject. Wben.kerosine was our source of light, we could depend on having it at command from five till six o'clock each evening, but now, with the march of improvement (?), we are depending on the Auckland Gas Company, night after night we are doomed to darkness, at a time when light is an object of importance. Some nights impure atmospheric air is passed through our meters, which is charged as gas at 20s. per 1,000 feet. This, of course, has no illuminating power whatever. As a general rule, a diluted gas is what is supplied, say 25 per cent, gas, and 75 percent, common air, which burns with a very blue flame, and has a very mitigated power of illumination, about equal to a farthing dip, it such an attenuation of a candle is known in this part of the world. When the Gas Co-npany present their account at the end of the quarter, I hope some one. will have the pluck to make them prove, before our worthy Resident Magistrate, that they have supplied gas to their customers. Do, Mr. Editor, blow them up a little, and explain to them the danger of mixing common air with carburetted hydrogen, thus forming a highly explosive compound. It would be much safer, besides being more honest, to circulate an illuminating gas, for which the people will willingly pay. Tours, &c, A CONSUMER.