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In each case a discount of 5 per cent. is allowed
for prompt quarterly payment.
The columns, lanterns, &c. are provided and
erected complete by the Companies for the sums of
£3 and £3 10s. respectively each Lamp column,
inclusive of fittings.
ELECTRIC LIGHTING.
In the month of November last, Parliamentary
notices and plans were deposited with the Vestry
by the Metropolitan Brush Electric Light Company,
proposing to light by Electricity some of the most
thickly populated portions of this parish, together
with a portion of the upper Dulwich District,
including the Crystal Palace, thus joining for
Electric Lighting purposes, the parishes of Camberwell
and Penge. The Electric Lighting Act of
1882, having given to parishes the option to adopt
Electric Lighting on their own account, or by
arrangement with Companies, the whole matter was
fully gone into by the committee specially appointed
by the Vestry, when after much discussion it was
resolved not to undertake the work by means of