19 OCTOBER 1878, Page 2

Mr. Adams, the assistant to Mr. Edison, resident in London,

informs the public that no explanation of his principal's method of dividing the Electric Light can be given until his patent for this country has been taken out, but that there is no hoax in the and that Mr. Edison has past all question solved the problem. The light will be exhibited the moment the patent is taken out. We hope, if it is, care will be taken to place the questions of distribution and cost beyond all doubt, so that the unlucky gas shareholders, who possess now, it is stated, nearly £100,000,000 of solid property, may know to what extent they are affected, and what measures it will be necessary to adopt. The blow to the investing classes may otherwise be aggravated, as in all such cases, by illusory reports.