A New Gas.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1898, 18 October 1886, Page 3

A New Gas.

Mr Kifr, M.H R, who bought gM peter t over New Zealand for £SOOO, habeen offered that sum lot his Auckland right alone. The patentee, who baa met with considerable opposition on various grounds, has annnmrlnd in attracting favourable attention to hia invention from Uovernment, who has consented to try it at Seaclifle Asylum, where an ordinary gas making apparatus was P> h«wi being erected at a cost of something like £3OOO. A number of private people are begining to uae it iu Wellington for houses, whieh are not supplied from gas mains. Xluap'<aratas was fitted up during the session Wriiamen t iry buildings, and a remarkably pnj i, 'hi was produced. Tue principle is Sdeetiea*t ~’Uh that of the Blowpipe, by whan gas is dhuteu* •» *® • very large exlent sad a patent borner, carving downward?, with thin platmnu? OTeT ,be a P erlate - ’* used. The foil is p/veed with a number of hoU» t ihrvaga ftuoh u*ae«. sffeet u to produce a mcandesceut light, perfectly steady and abadowless. A swions thine u that the most be •vied downwards, or the light roe*» loudly. Ordinary coal gas may be employ.''d- " ut Hooker got the best effect bom gas obtCU>ed by simply forcing air through the oil, which can be burned at once, without any intense Ante presses of pnrifieetioo, Ac. The inven tor that such gas coats about Is per 1000 ft. Ha himself had lighted his ewo residents for many months by this process, s pels el bellows and small holder being the apparatus asad. Objections are urged to the new light that the gas is dangerously explores, hat As patentee denies that there is any riak An with aoal-gaa. Mr Hooker is now ■sparietinf with the Bleobiem Corporation to eatahlkm works to light the town on (bis