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New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6829, 6 October 1883, Page 1 (Supplement)

The burning question of the day—Where do all tlio Sewing Machines, sold by £>. S. Chambers go to ? Kverywhero ! Families, Dresomakers, Sailors and Bootmakers, before buying old stales should call and seo tho latest grand invention av 70, Queenstreet, Auckland, opposite the Bank of N. Z. Ship* pera and tho trade supplied. If You Don't Believe It, Ask Any German.—And he 'will convince you that St. Jacobs Oil is tho most wonderful remedy that has ever been brought before the public, rheumatism of many years' standing has yielded immediately to its almost mpgical influence. As man? have expressed it. its action is electrical, seeming to drive the pain before it until all discomfort leaves the body and tho warm glow of health and comfort remains. It is a certain cure for neuralgia, giving immediate relief upon the first 'application, and curing, in a short time, the most inveterate cases. Sold by all chemists. Price, Three Shillings Levy and Co., Agents. What is gas ooke ? Gas coke is nearly all carbon, aid carbon properly burned will give out, in , round numbers, 14,000 units of heat per pound," or very neatly as much as the best English steam coals. Indeed, coal only surpasses it because of the small quantity of hydrogen which it contains uncomblned with oxygen. Itis often urged that coke cannot bo as I good as coal because it haa lost all the boat-producing power.ec L uivalent to that of the gas driven off. Tt ia quite trjcie .that the coke resulting from ono ton of coal dot* not "possess the same calorific value as the coal from which it was made. - Buyt must bo borno in mini that we are comparing coke with coal weight ' fob. weight. Thus, lOOlbs.' of coal produces 6(Hbs. of coke: so that some 3Gcwt. of coal ia required to produce one ton of coke, and tho difference satisfactorily allows for the heat producing power i>i the gas driven off,