LIGHTING RAILWAY CARRIAGES.
[Peb Pbess Association.]
WELLINGTON, Jan. 10.
The Minister of Eailways has decided te introduce a system of generated gas for lighting the express trains between Christchurch and Dunedin, and Dunedin and Invercargill. The plant is expected to arrive within twomonths, and will be erected at Dunedin. Each long carriage will be fitted with a cylinder reservoir, which will be charged with sufficient gas to last the return journey. Each lamp will have an illuminating power equal to fifteen candles, and three lamps will be placed in each carriage. The plant costs some thousands of pounds, but if the test is satisfactory similar plants will be erected at Auckland and Wellington.
The Church of Our Saviour at Moscow was completed only a few years ago, and surpasses in beauty any church of modern times. It was built to commemorate the deliverance of Moscow from the French, and it cost about _eßojo,OOO.'"This.church"_sta,nds on the banks of the Moscow Eiver just outside the Kremlin, and its great gold dome may; be seen blazing out- under /the sun from any part of Moscow. It covers about two acres, and is built of a clear, Avhite stone, in the shape of a Greek cross.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5459, 10 January 1896, Page 3
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