GAS II. ELECTRICITY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 4243, 18 January 1883, Page 2

GAS 11. ELECTRICITY.

i. At a recent meeting of the Dundee Gas Commissioners, a gentleman in the course of a speech said:— One word about the cost of the electric light as compared with gas. I had the pleasure of converaatiou with Mr. Beckiusgale, mauager of the Brush Electric Li^ht Oompauy of Scotlaud, who is at present here snpedntendiifg the erection of the lamps in Ootuuiwr-ci.tl-streot, and in the course of the conversation ho stated that the cost of the electric light would not exceed the cost of gas. Being anxious to ascertain his data for this, I pat a few questions to him, and aftor a careful calculation I iound that the cost of lighting Commercial-street with five arc la'nps, for the use of which the company charge 34 d. per hour per lamp, exolusive of the carbons, or Bay, 41 1. per hour per lamp inclusive of all charges, for one year, on an average burning ten hours per night, would bo £342, while the cost of lighting by gas with 25 lamps, beiug the present number iv the street, each lamp burning 5 cubic feet of gas per hour, would only amount to £79. Thus, allowing a good deal for the superiority of the electric light, it appears that there is such a thiug as buying gold too dea»v