ELECTRIC LIGHTING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7071, 12 April 1901, Page 3

ELECTRIC LIGHTING.

* AN INSTALLATION AT CHARTERIS BAY. Yesterday evening a party of gentlemen. ■paid a visit to Charteris Bay, on tie. invitation of Mr Orton Bradley, in order to inspect the electric light instala'tiori in his new house. The party went to ,t^e Bay in the steam launch Lyttelton.! The night was dark, and this enhanced the appearance of the house which, with its many brilliantly lighted windows, made a highly effective spectacle. The dynamo, •Which is* placed in a •detached building, was found by the visitors in full work, and registering 65 volts. It is driven by means of an overshot water-wheel on am. adajcenfc creek. This wheel does much useful work; for, in addition to the dynamo, it drives a circular 'saw, a planing machine aard a chaff-cutter under oue rcof, and operates the bellows of a blacksmith's forge an another building. Mr Bradley's residence is of two storeys, and contains fourteen rooms, fitted with all "up to date" conveniences. The electric light fittings are in every room. In the principal apartments, besides the wall brackets, there are piUar lights, which cam be moved to table, mantelpiece or any other position required. The visitors who were highly pleased with the evidences of ingenuity and enterprise around them, were .[hospitably entertained by Mr Bradley. The Mayor of Lyttelton, Mr T. C. Field, who was one of the party, complimented the hast, and all- present wished him prosperity and long life to enjoy t&e results of "his enterprise. Some informal toasts were drunk, and the visitors returned to Lyttelton, highly pleased with-, their trip. ■