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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8664, 5 September 1891, Page 6

A large representative meeting 0 th interested in female franchise was heir Duncdin on Thursday evening, «•),,„ resolution, which has been fonvarrU " Sir John Hall, expressive of indignaS? the proposal to suspend the grantin"! the franchise till after the general election was carried. he executive of the Lib i Association take the same view It may save your like.—if von f from liver or kidney troubles l) r S ? c , : American Hop Bitters is the remedy you r V quire. See that you get the genuine.

g UXENE.»-TLe Kow Il, umiQant The Most Powerful, Economical, 4 Xd Safest Light Known. The dawn of creation was signified by tho fulfilment of . the Divine command "L there be light," and the division of the li»ht from the darkness was coincident with th germ of a provision of those inexhaustible stores of nature from which man in theV-J! to follow was to extract, after one fashion or another, the varied artificial lights which would naturally be required to enable him to fulfil his mission on earth. And its soon a* the light made the darkness visible, the face of Nature, as it then was, brightened exceed, ingly and became gladsome and joyous, and the great orriithorhynchus commenced hi< gambols with tho lively and intelligent bacilli, and the entozoas, and the proas "and plasms of tho unformed animal world would set out in pursuit of prey and gave chase to the buffalo, tho oetohedron, the moa the phalarigers, and other duodecimals c: irregular habits, and " played vp old Harry' generally until pre-Adamite man appeared upon the scene and reduced absolute chaos to comparative disorder under the influence of his magnetic eye and the cunning of liij right hand. But even he was powerless at night when clouds obscured the face of the moon and the twinkle of the stars and all the wild beasts and insects roared their defiance of him from the rocks and fissures, and poked fun at him from the tree tops, and chased him about in his pyjamas, and bit and stung him, simply because he had no light by which lie could see to fire bricks at them with any degree of accuracy, and he had to keep awake all night and dodge them from shelter to shelter, until his iifo became a wearisome misery to him for the want of knowing how to turn night into day—an art which his 15)tli century descendants have worked out to their entire satisfaction. Therefore he devoted all his energies to the discovery of ail artificial li«'ht which would enable him to combat with his nocturnal enemies, and to keep them at bay while he walked up and down in the wilderness with his teething infant and administered the paregoric and the peppermint or tho clinging slipper, as the case might be, according to the necessities of the moment. And, first of all ho hit on a plan of obtaining it by the friction of two sticks, but it was a long and tedious process, during which the mosquitos bit him, and the native dog howled at him from the distance, and the scorpion prospected his feet, while the light-hearted centipede dropped from a branch overhead down the back of his neck. And generation succeeded generation until presently he discovered the use of flint and steel, and the pitch nine and other resinous torches, and then the fat of his numerous victims attracted his attention, and led up to the invention of the useful but evilsmelling fat lamp, from which to mutton f'ifc candles was but a short jump, and their use suggested to him tho expression c! liquid fat or oils from both animals and vegetables, and the fabrication of lamps in which to burn them and distribute the powerful aroma over large areas of country. And when other and more ingenious men smelt this burnt incense, they set themselves to go one better, and they found coal and made gas therefrom, and established monopolies, which'- have ground the faces of the poor, and eaten out the hearts of countless thousands, who have gone t< their graves with broken hearts and shattered frames in consequence. Others, again, dug, and found ready-made oil stored away in natural cisterns, into which they inserted pumps, and formed " trusts,' and built up syndicates, and companies, and monopolies of another sort, hut none the less venomous, and they advertised various fictitious legends with regard to these oils, which they divided into "grades," as they called them; the only difference between which was that one " grade " would blow a whole family, with their house and i\ quarter-acre allotment, higher, and into smaller pieces, and nearer to the confines of perdition, in less time than another "grade "which happened to belong to a rival syndicate. And these combustibles were called by a variety of names, such as petroleum, ana petroline, and kerosene, and numerous other " ums" and "ines" and " isms, hut all more or less possessed of the familiar suddenness of forked lightning and the explosive force of dynamite, and worst of fill at the very time when they were supposed to be perfectly reliable on account of » guarantee that they had been tested ana inspected, and set fire to and put ou . again, and thoroughly overhauled uy_presidents and committees and experts or great judgment. Bub in spits of all these precautions, they still continued to go oil as frequent intervals and wreck properties, and break up happy little family circle-, until human nature rebelled against tho imposition, and then the electric licrhb wat introduced. But ib was altogether to frisky, and uncertain, and sensational at illuminant to suit all classes, and at last l has been rewarded with a success vine may be justly claimed as the success 01 century. At last there is light; light that is p® ' and beautiful, -maintained from a soiirc that is constant, economical, and absolutely devoidofallri.sk, danger, and unpleasantly-' "Luxkne" is the discovery of the "fr - it is a powerful illuminanb, with an table title to the before - mental) | characteristics, and some others which " ( eventually be emphasised in the w0 ! 4 V the Government Statistician, and win at once recognised in the enormous ration of the number of deaths regime in the column which refers to lamp • plosions. Luxkne is a genuine discovery of an entirely new application of one or sources of artificial light; it is devoi smell when burning, and cannot bo 1 posely fired under any conditions, excrp ■ such as may be resorted to by a una 1 an idiot. Ibis prepared for market J,> entirely new process, and can bo stro a y recommended for domestic use bo r town and country, and under all com 1 > in which oil is used for illuminating P poses, and where freedom from fcl _ ! brilliancy of light at _ a low c 0 absolute safety are considered as ,a p. - J general importance among the Uetaus human life and progress. > ,-n Ldxknk can be obtained from E. 1 & Co., and consumers will soon I le' t understand the truth of the assert its uso will go far towards minlinlf,I i l^ a :j e s necessity for heavy lire insurances, - imparting an additional sccuritv value of life, and. adding largely to u pleasures.