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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6272, 23 December 1881, Page 6

This is the way we manage our coke: — Kitchen Range : Clear out ashes, tilling grate about half full of coke, upon this we place our kindle wood and coal. Small additions to the coal should bo made until the Qre is well lignted. Wo have arranged our fires in this way for many years, and think it the quickest, best, and oheapoit llro to bo obtained from solid fuel. Sitting Room : Lay in your kindlings in the grate either with o: without some local coals, upon these build up a heap of coke, the higher it 13 the better. A coke lire will last throughout the winter evening without required to be replenished. Coke, being smokeless, presents many advantages to householdors Now, a word to owners of small steam boilers. Coke id much cher.iiT than enal for raising steam in short boilers. Two excellent illustrations were lately given in the Engineer. in one, a small vertical"boiler without tubes, actually evaporated nearly 91bs of cold water per pound of coke. With coal the same boiler ' mill at most have evaporated 51bs—that is, if the cm! could have boon fairly burned at all, which is doubtful. In the other, with Welsh steam coal, the evaporation was O'6Blbs of water, and with gas coke, tlie conditions being the same, the evaporation waa •lib of water per pound of coke