To the: Editor of the A perusal of the minutes of the 24dh ult, compels Special Committee fighting the Scttl ment cither does not correctly appreciate rogative, and antagoni any measure not emanating from But the probability is that at least-in this instance, it is badly advised.
The Gas Company in a business-like and explicit letter not only gives the Couneit some valuable information, but makes it an offer, which, although as a matter of course primarily tending to serve the Company's own interests, nevertheless woul si to secure to the community two desiderata hitherto" deemed irreeonoilable, viz. increased illumination of our now dingy thorouhiares, and a considerable economy in our expenditure, amounting to some Tls. 15,000 per annum.
the Company furthermore offered to erect, at its own cost, six sixty candle-power Iamps on the Bubbling Well Road, opposite the Race Course, so that the Community as well xs the Council might have a bond side tactical exhibition of how far the Gas pany is ina position ty fuilil its promise of an evenly disused light over what is at a regularly and alternately 1 stretch of very busy road. Council curtly rejects on "the specimen Lap in the Flu "lis all thatis required for the purposes of ison in estimating the quality of t form of illuminant, Lam no gas expert, but Tam convinced that. th is nota sixty candle-power in the first place, and in Ute next, that the Coaneil, its Engineer, nor any other reputed authority can arri any conclusion of the Toast pra value ast" the light-diffusing effect of several 60 ¢.-p. lamps placed 50 yards abut, in any one plice or position, by observations taken en one lamp only of alesser candle power, placed elsewhere, The Council's reply contains no express sion of courteous regret at not being able to offer the Gas Company any encourage ment in its endewours to supplement the ailings' of our are-light system, nor does it even go through the mere form of tendering thanks for information received or offer made, but by its tone suggests that, any offer tending to the benefit of the community at large, even when made body of well-known and reputable men, will be mer, not with intelligent' and nature consideration, but by a curt and unsatisfactory dismissal amounting to what would, in circles, be an undeserved "si Tam, ete., Distxrenesten, 9th April.
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