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iron parapet railing, between pilasters of dressed stone, 

 which will carry standards for electric or gas lighting. 



New Wharf Wall and Widened Roadway, St. Augus- 

 tine's. — This wall extends from the south-west wing wall 

 of St. Augustine Bridge, to the new wharf wall at Canon's 

 Marsh, a length of 845 feet. It consists of a series of brick 

 piers 10 feet 3 inches, and 18 feet apart, centre to centre, on 

 foundations of cement concrete, about 3 feet in thickness. 

 Between the piers are turned 18-inch brick arches, the 

 larger arches in vertical bond. The average width added 

 to the roadway of St. Augustine's Parade will be 28 feet. 

 This addition, combined with the greatly increased width of, 

 and improved access to, St. Augustine Bridge, will together 

 form one of the greatest street improvements of recent years 

 in Bristol. 



Electric Lighting. — Bristol has hitherto been somewhat 

 behind other cities and places of smaller population in the 

 matter of electric illumination, but it has been determined 

 to make a commencement, and accordingly an electric light- 

 ing station and apparatus are in course of construction at 

 Temple Back, the former from the designs of Mr. Henry 

 Williams, architect, and the latter under the direction of 

 Mr. Preece, F.R.S. The site of the buildings is of an aver- 

 age length of 136 feet, by 96 feet wide, with a frontage 

 on the Floating Harbour. The whole area for the build- 

 ings has been piled with larch piles at 4 feet apart, centre 

 to centre, and of lengths varying between 18 and 36 

 feet, about 1,000 piles having been driven. On these, 

 concrete is placed of different thicknesses according to the 

 requirements for the foundations of the engines, boilers, 

 dynamos, etc. The engines are of Willan's compound trans- 

 fer system, nine in number, and of the united power of 

 1,200 H.p. The boilers are of steel, seven in number, of the 



