Registration No. 33-       
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                        SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                              Washington, D.C. 20549
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                                     FORM S-8
                              REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      Under
                            the Securities Act of 1933
                                         
                            --------------------------
                                         
                       CONNECTICUT NATURAL GAS CORPORATION
              (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
                                         
              Connecticut                                 06-0383860
       (State of Incorporation)                (I.R.S. Employer Identification
                                                Number)
    
                              100 Columbus Boulevard
                           Hartford, Connecticut 06103
                     (Address of principal Executive Offices)
                                         
                       CONNECTICUT NATURAL GAS CORPORATION
                              EMPLOYEE SAVINGS PLAN
                             (Full title of the plan)
                                         
                                         
                               Reginald L. Babcock
       Vice President - Corporate Services and General Counsel & Secretary
                              100 Columbus Boulevard
                           Hartford, Connecticut 06103
                                  (203) 727-3459
            (Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)
                                         
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                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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                                      Proposed       Proposed
       Title of          Amount       maximum        maximum         Amount of
      securities         to be        offering       aggregate     registration
        to be          registered(2)   price         offering          fee(3)
     registered(1)                    per unit(3)     price(3)
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   Common Stock
   (par value $3.125  200,000 shares   $25.8125     $5,162,500        $1,781  
   per share)
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   (1) In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933,
   this registration statement also covers an indeterminate amount of interests
   to be offered or sold pursuant to the employee benefit plan described
   herein.
   (2) The number of shares of Common Stock, $3.125 par value, of Connecticut
   Natural Gas Corporation being registered represents shares which the Trustee
   may purchase or otherwise acquire for the account of the employees
   participating in the Connecticut Natural Gas Corporation Employee Savings
   Plan.
   (3) In accordance with Rule 457 calculated on the basis of the average of
   the high and low prices for the $3.125 par value Common Stock on the New
   York Stock Exchange on July 18, 1994.<PAGE>
                                     PART II
                                         
                INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                         
                                         
   ITEM 3.   INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.
    
        The following documents, filed by the Company with the Securities and
   Exchange Commission under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (File No.
   1-7727) are incorporated in this registration statement by reference and
   shall be deemed to be a part hereof:
    
        (a)  The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
             September 30, 1993, filed with the Commission on December 28,
             1993, and all amendments thereto.
    
        (b)  All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the
             Securities Exchange Act of 1934 since the end of the fiscal year
             referred to in (a) above.
    
        (c)  The description of Common Stock contained in the Company's
             Registration Statement on Form S-2, filed August 31, 1989
             (Registration No. 33-30771).
    
        All documents filed by the Company and the Plan pursuant to Sections
   13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, filed
   after the date of this registration statement and prior to the filing of a
   post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby
   have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold,
   shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this registration
   statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.
    
    
   ITEM 4.   NOT APPLICABLE.
    
    
   ITEM 5.   NOT APPLICABLE.
    
    
   ITEM 6.   INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.
    
        The information required by Item 702 of Regulation S-K was previously
   filed as Item 15 to the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-3 on
   September 11, 1992 (Commission File No. 033-49005) and is incorporated
   herein by reference.
    
   ITEM 7.   NOT APPLICABLE.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
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   ITEM 8.   EXHIBITS.
    
        The exhibits constituting part of this registration statement are as
   follows:
    
          4 (i)   Connecticut Natural Gas Corporation Employee Savings Plan
                  (the "Plan").
    
            (ii)  Connecticut Natural Gas Corporation Employee Savings Plan
                  Trust Agreement, including amendments thereto.
    
          5 (i)   Opinion of Murtha, Cullina, Richter and Pinney re:  legality
    
            (ii)  The Company will submit or has submitted the Plan and any 
                  amendment thereto to the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") in
                  a timely manner and has made and will make all changes
                  required by the IRS in order to qualify the Plan.
    
         23  (i)  Consent of Arthur Andersen & Co.
    
            (ii)  Consent of Murtha, Cullina, Richter and Pinney is included in
                  its opinion re:  legality.
    
         24       Power of Attorney authorizing execution of Registration
                  Statement
    
    
   ITEM 9.   UNDERTAKINGS.
    
        (a)  Rule 415 Offering.
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        The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes;
    
                  (1)  To file, during any period in which offers or sales are
             being  made, a post-effective amendment to this registration
             statement:
    
                  (i)  To include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3)
                       of the Securities Act of 1933;
    
                 (ii)  To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising
                       after the effective date of the registration statement
                       (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof)
                       which, individually or in the aggregate, represents a
                       fundamental change in the information set forth in the
                       registration statement;
    
                (iii)  To include any material information with respect to the
                       plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the
                       registration statement or any material change to such
                       information in the registration statement;
    
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   ITEM 9.   UNDERTAKINGS (Continued).
    
   (a)(1)
             Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do
        not apply if the registration statement is on Form S-3 or Form S-8,
        and the information required to be included in a post-effective
        amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed
        by the registrant pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the
        Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in
        the registration statement.
    
             (2)  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
        Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be
        deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities
        offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time
        shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
    
             (3)  To remove from registration by means of post-effective
        amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold
        at the termination of the offering.
    
        (b)  Filings incorporating subsequent Exchange Act documents by
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   reference.
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        The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
   determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of
   the registrant's annual report pursuant to section 13(a) or section 15(d) of
   the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and each filing of the Plan's annual
   report pursuant to section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
   that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be
   deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered
   therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to
   be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
    
        (h)  SEC position concerning indemnification.
             ---------------------------------------
    
        Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
   Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and
   controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions,
   or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the
   Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public
   policy as expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the
   event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than
   the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director,
   officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of
   any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or
   controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the
   registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been
   settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
   jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against
   public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final
   adjudication of such issue.
    
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                                    SIGNATURES
    
    
    
   The Registrant
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        Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
   registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets
   all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this
   registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
   thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Hartford, State of Connecticut, on
   this 19th day of July, 1994.
    
                                           Connecticut Natural Gas Corporation
                                          ------------------------------------ 
                                                       (Registrant)
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                           S/ Victor H. Frauenhofer
                                           ---------------------------------
                                           Victor H. Frauenhofer
                                           Chairman, President and Chief
                                           Executive Officer
    
   Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
   registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the
   capacities on this 19th day of July, 1994.
    
   Signature                     Title
   ---------                     ------
    
     S/ Victor H. Frauenhofer
     --------------------------  Chairman, President & Chief Executive
     (Victor H. Frauenhofer)     Officer and Director
    
    
     S/ James P. Bolduc
     --------------------------  Senior Vice President - Financial
     (James P. Bolduc)           Services and Chief Financial Officer
    
    
     S/ R. L. Babcock
     --------------------------
     (R. L. Babcock)*
    
   *Attorney-in-Fact for:
    
   Bessye W. Bennett, Director
   James F. English, Director
   Herman J. Fonteyne, Director
   Harvey S. Levenson, Director
   Denis F. Mullane, Director
   Richard J. Shima, Director
   Laurence A. Tanner, Director
   DeRoy C. Thomas, Director
   Angelo Tomasso, Jr., Director
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   The Plan
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   Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Plan has
   duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the
   undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Hartford, State of
   Connecticut, on this 19th day of July, 1994.
                                         
                                          CONNECTICUT NATURAL GAS CORPORATION
                                                 EMPLOYEE SAVINGS PLAN:
                                                             
                                                             
                                          CONNECTICUT NATURAL GAS CORPORATION
                                                   PLAN ADMINISTRATOR
                                                             
                                                             
                                                             
                                                 S/ Frank H. Livingston
                                           ----------------------------------
                                                  Frank H. Livingston
                                        Vice President - Office of the Chairman
                                                            
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
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Registration No. 33-       
   ============================================================================
                        SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                              Washington, D.C. 20549
                              ----------------------
                                         
                                     FORM S-8
                              REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      Under
                            the Securities Act of 1933
                                         
                            --------------------------
                                         
                       CONNECTICUT NATURAL GAS CORPORATION
              (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
                                         
              Connecticut                                 06-0383860
       (State of Incorporation)                (I.R.S. Employer Identification
                                                Number)
    
                              100 Columbus Boulevard
                           Hartford, Connecticut 06103
                     (Address of principal Executive Offices)
                                         
                       CONNECTICUT NATURAL GAS CORPORATION
                              EMPLOYEE SAVINGS PLAN
                             (Full title of the plan)
                                         
                                         
                               Reginald L. Babcock
       Vice President - Corporate Services and General Counsel & Secretary
                              100 Columbus Boulevard
                           Hartford, Connecticut 06103
                                  (203) 727-3459
            (Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)
                                         
                  ----------------------------------------------
                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                      Proposed       Proposed
       Title of          Amount       maximum        maximum         Amount of
      securities         to be        offering       aggregate     registration
        to be          registered(2)   price         offering          fee(3)
     registered(1)                    per unit(3)     price(3)
   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   Common Stock
   (par value $3.125  200,000 shares   $25.8125     $5,162,500        $1,781  
   per share)
   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   (1) In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933,
   this registration statement also covers an indeterminate amount of interests
   to be offered or sold pursuant to the employee benefit plan described
   herein.
   (2) The number of shares of Common Stock, $3.125 par value, of Connecticut
   Natural Gas Corporation being registered represents shares which the Trustee
   may purchase or otherwise acquire for the account of the employees
   participating in the Connecticut Natural Gas Corporation Employee Savings
   Plan.
   (3) In accordance with Rule 457 calculated on the basis of the average of
   the high and low prices for the $3.125 par value Common Stock on the New
   York Stock Exchange on July 18, 1994.
PART II
                                         
                INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                         
                                         
   ITEM 3.   INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.
    
        The following documents, filed by the Company with the Securities and
   Exchange Commission under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (File No.
   1-7727) are incorporated in this registration statement by reference and
   shall be deemed to be a part hereof:
    
        (a)  The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
             September 30, 1993, filed with the Commission on December 28,
             1993, and all amendments thereto.
    
        (b)  All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the
             Securities Exchange Act of 1934 since the end of the fiscal year
             referred to in (a) above.
    
        (c)  The description of Common Stock contained in the Company's
             Registration Statement on Form S-2, filed August 31, 1989
             (Registration No. 33-30771).
    
        All documents filed by the Company and the Plan pursuant to Sections
   13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, filed
   after the date of this registration statement and prior to the filing of a
   post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby
   have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold,
   shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this registration
   statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.
    
    
   ITEM 4.   NOT APPLICABLE.
    
    
   ITEM 5.   NOT APPLICABLE.
    
    
   ITEM 6.   INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.
    
        The information required by Item 702 of Regulation S-K was previously
   filed as Item 15 to the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-3 on
   September 11, 1992 (Commission File No. 033-49005) and is incorporated
   herein by reference.
    
   ITEM 7.   NOT APPLICABLE.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
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ITEM 8.   EXHIBITS.
    
        The exhibits constituting part of this registration statement are as
   follows:
    
          4 (i)   Connecticut Natural Gas Corporation Employee Savings Plan
                  (the "Plan").
    
            (ii)  Connecticut Natural Gas Corporation Employee Savings Plan
                  Trust Agreement, including amendments thereto.
    
          5 (i)   Opinion of Murtha, Cullina, Richter and Pinney re:  legality
    
            (ii)  The Company will submit or has submitted the Plan and any 
                  amendment thereto to the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") in
                  a timely manner and has made and will make all changes
                  required by the IRS in order to qualify the Plan.
    
         23  (i)  Consent of Arthur Andersen & Co.
    
            (ii)  Consent of Murtha, Cullina, Richter and Pinney is included in
                  its opinion re:  legality.
    
         24       Power of Attorney authorizing execution of Registration
                  Statement
    
    
   ITEM 9.   UNDERTAKINGS.
    
        (a)  Rule 415 Offering.
             -----------------
    
        The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes;
    
                  (1)  To file, during any period in which offers or sales are
             being  made, a post-effective amendment to this registration
             statement:
    
                  (i)  To include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3)
                       of the Securities Act of 1933;
    
                 (ii)  To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising
                       after the effective date of the registration statement
                       (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof)
                       which, individually or in the aggregate, represents a
                       fundamental change in the information set forth in the
                       registration statement;
    
                (iii)  To include any material information with respect to the
                       plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the
                       registration statement or any material change to such
                       information in the registration statement;
    
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ITEM 9.   UNDERTAKINGS (Continued).
    
   (a)(1)
             Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do
        not apply if the registration statement is on Form S-3 or Form S-8,
        and the information required to be included in a post-effective
        amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed
        by the registrant pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the
        Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in
        the registration statement.
    
             (2)  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
        Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be
        deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities
        offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time
        shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
    
             (3)  To remove from registration by means of post-effective
        amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold
        at the termination of the offering.
    
        (b)  Filings incorporating subsequent Exchange Act documents by
             ----------------------------------------------------------
   reference.
   ---------
    
        The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
   determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of
   the registrant's annual report pursuant to section 13(a) or section 15(d) of
   the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and each filing of the Plan's annual
   report pursuant to section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
   that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be
   deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered
   therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to
   be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
    
        (h)  SEC position concerning indemnification.
             ---------------------------------------
    
        Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
   Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and
   controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions,
   or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the
   Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public
   policy as expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the
   event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than
   the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director,
   officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of
   any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or
   controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the
   registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been
   settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
   jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against
   public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final
   adjudication of such issue.
    
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SIGNATURES
    
    
    
   The Registrant
   --------------
    
        Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
   registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets
   all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this
   registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
   thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Hartford, State of Connecticut, on
   this 19th day of July, 1994.
    
                                           Connecticut Natural Gas Corporation
                                          ------------------------------------ 
                                                       (Registrant)
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                           S/ Victor H. Frauenhofer
                                           ---------------------------------
                                           Victor H. Frauenhofer
                                           Chairman, President and Chief
                                           Executive Officer
    
   Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
   registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the
   capacities on this 19th day of July, 1994.
    
   Signature                     Title
   ---------                     ------
    
     S/ Victor H. Frauenhofer
     --------------------------  Chairman, President & Chief Executive
     (Victor H. Frauenhofer)     Officer and Director
    
    
     S/ James P. Bolduc
     --------------------------  Senior Vice President - Financial
     (James P. Bolduc)           Services and Chief Financial Officer
    
    
     S/ R. L. Babcock
     --------------------------
     (R. L. Babcock)*
    
   *Attorney-in-Fact for:
    
   Bessye W. Bennett, Director
   James F. English, Director
   Herman J. Fonteyne, Director
   Harvey S. Levenson, Director
   Denis F. Mullane, Director
   Richard J. Shima, Director
   Laurence A. Tanner, Director
   DeRoy C. Thomas, Director
   Angelo Tomasso, Jr., Director
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The Plan
   --------
    
   Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Plan has
   duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the
   undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Hartford, State of
   Connecticut, on this 19th day of July, 1994.
                                         
                                          CONNECTICUT NATURAL GAS CORPORATION
                                                 EMPLOYEE SAVINGS PLAN:
                                                             
                                                             
                                          CONNECTICUT NATURAL GAS CORPORATION
                                                   PLAN ADMINISTRATOR
                                                             
                                                             
                                                             
                                                 S/ Frank H. Livingston
                                           ----------------------------------
                                                  Frank H. Livingston
                                        Vice President - Office of the Chairman
                                                            
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
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