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GAS.
The subjoined tables, from the quarterly reports of the " Chief Gas
Examiner," exhibit at a glance the principal results (averages) of the
daily testings at Ladbroke Grove Station, of the gas manufactured
at Kensal Green in this Parish, by the Gas-light and Coke Company.
Sulphuretted hydrogen, an impurity which is not tolerated in any
degree, was invariably absent; while ammonia, a valuable residual
product of gas manufacture, was seldom found and only in fractional
amounts far below the Parliamentary limit.

On one occasion, each, in the second and fourth quarters the gas
was slightly below the requirements of the Act in illuminating power;
and in the first quarter it was below the minimum on three occasions.
The Company however appealed against the returns, alleging that the
same gas had been found by their own gas examiner to be above the
minimum, and that the Official Gas Examiner did not test the gas in
conformity with the instructions. of the Gas Referees, as in his
experiments the candles were consumed at the rate of less than 114
grains per hour; and as this allegation was acknowledged to be
correct, there was no evidence of insufficiency of illuminating power
in the gas according to the provisions of the Act.