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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6964, 13 March 1884, Page 3

; What is gas coke ? Gas coke is nearly all carbon, properly burned .will give out, id round., numbers; 14,(KJ0. units 'of. heat per pound, or very nearly as much as.the best English steam coals, vindeed; coal : oiily surpasses it because of the small quanUtj; of hydrogen which it.contains unconibined' oxygenic .It is ofteniurged that coke cannot be aa. good as coarbecause it has lost, all the heat-producing .power equivalent to that of the'gas driven off. II is 'quite true .from. one ton of: coaldoes not possess the same, calorific value as the coal from, which it was made.' - Bat it must be borne in . mind that we "are oomparing coke ..with coal: WEioßTrroß; weight. ;sThus, lOOlbs.; of coal pror duces 661bs; ot coke: so 7 that some 3Qcwt. of coal is required to produce one ton of coke, and the differ* ence, satisfactorily allows for the heat producing power o! the gas driven off. Catarrh of the Bladder.—Stinging irritation, inflammation, all kidney and similar com-': plaints, curod by 11 Buchu-paiba."—New Zealaad Drag Company, Auckland. Eighty-six pairs Lace Curtains, bought a job from the manufactnr -, to be sold Tery cheap Some are slightly soiled. TV ill be quitted at nay ' low rates. Great bargains amongst tbem. On aala sow by Qarlick and CranwaU, City Hall Furnilhißg \ Warehousc lf 'jneen-street;