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Tho total number of Lamps is now as follows:—
Gas Light and Coko Company, 911 f> foot lamps.
,, ,, 4 3-light Sugg's lamps,
plied by motor.
,, ,, 3 2-bglit ditto, supplied by
meter.
,, ,, 1 special lamp over Urinal,
Austin strewt, burning 14.4
cubic foot of gas per hour.
Commercial Gas Company 79/3 foot lamps.
,, ,, 2 3-light Sugg's lamps,
plied by meter.
Tho cost of lighting tho following Lamps (not
included in tho abovo totals) is paid by tho Great
Eastorn Railway Company:-
Arundle street 3 Old Bothnal Green road 1
Brady stroet 2 Tapp street 1
Brick lane 2 Three Colt lane 1
Birkbeck street 1 West street 1
Coventry stroet 1 Wheler street (lighted day
Collingwood street 1 and night) 2
Grove passage 1 —
Morpeth stroet 1 Total 21
Nottingham stroet 3 —
On April 1st, 1887, tho Gas Light and Coko
Company reduced tho price of tho Gas for public
lighting from 2s. Od. to 2s. 5d. per 1000 cubic feet,
and in January 1888 a further reduction, viz.:—2s. 5d.
to 2s. 2d. was mado. Tho effect of these alterations is
that with 15 additional lamps tho cost, including meter
ronts, cleaning, painting, repairing and lighting for tho
yoar onding Lady-day last in tho district supplied by tho
Gas Light and Coko Company, is £3,025 12s. 7d.,
against £3,097 l6s. 8d. in tho previous year.
Tho full advantage of this alteration will be roalised
in tho prosont yoar, tho largo roduction of 3d. per
1,000 cubic foot having only been in force during ono
quartor of tho yoar now the subject of roport.
Tho amount paid tho Commercial Gas Company for
motor ronts, cleaning, painting, ropairing and lighting
tho Lamps in their district was £310 13s. 9d. (Those
amounts aro oxolusivo of tho sums paid by tho Groat
Eastorn liailway Company for lighting tho Lamps,
as given above).