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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2926, 2 July 1878, Page 1

Business Notices , ' , J [Established 1869.] il. WISEMAN, PRACTICAL TAILOR, Brown Street, GEAHAMSTOWN, T N returning THANKS for the large nmount 1 of PATRONAGE and RECOMMEN j DATION with which he ha 1? been favoured during his residence on the Thames, respectfully announces that on account of his \ STEADILY INCREASING BUSINESS I HE HAS REMOVED TO LARGER AND MORE COMMODIOUS PREMISES (Seven Doors from the Bank of New Zealand.) R.W. having had many years' London and Colonial Experience, Receiving all Orders, Cutting every Garment himself, and Personally Superintending the Making-up, he can GUARANTEE to his Customers the Fullest; Satisfaction as regards * QUALITY * and * STYLE,* *# p I T ** AND «^° WORKMANSHIP! Jg% ENGLISH AND COLONIAL CLOTHS And TWEEDS in GREAT VARIETY, 01" FIRST-CLASS QUALITY ONLY KEPT IN STOCK. ENLARGEMENTJOF PREMISES. :i. wood, T T AYING made considerable Alterations and Additions to his Premises, begs to draw the attention of the. Public to his Well* j assorted Stock of » . Men's Clothing & Tobacconists' - Goods. THE CLOTHING DEPARTMENT Will be found lo be supplied with every description, of GENTLEMEN'S APPAREL, Which will be Bold fit prices to induce purchasers to become regular customers. The Tobacconists' Department Is replete with every description of SMOKERS' REQUISITES, Including the Best Brands of TOBACCO and CIGARS, MEERSCHAUM and other Pipes ; Pouches in all the newest designs and materials, Cutlery of the best Sheffield makes, and an infinite variety of Fancy; Goods. A Large Assortment of CONCERTINAS to choose from. BEST TOBACCO CUT DAILY. t. wood;w T u NDi POLLEN STREET) •^ATER JQNGINES! A. &Q. PRICE ARE PREPARED TO SUPPLY WAT E R EN SINE S, Of ant Size ob Poweb. Sundry Sizes ready for delivery. Estimates of Hydraulic Machinery of any description to be had on application AT FOUNDRY, GRAHAMSTO W N. 1118 TV V N AM IT E. JtfST Abbived, per Queen of thk .West, from London— TEN TONS DYNAMITE, DETONATORS, BATTERY, INSULATED. COPPER WIRE, Etc., Etc., Etc. DYNAMITE is the Safest and Most Power- 1 : '■„.;.,ful Explosive in use. THE IUFETY OF DYNAMITE DURING T^NSFORT AND STOWAGE. Extracts from the Official evidence given before the House of Commons Select Committee on Explosive Substances-?-Parliamentary Session of 1874, London; Boxes filled with dynamite have been thrown from a great height, and found to sustain any amount of shock without exploding. They, have also been placed upon an open fire, when the dynamite burned slowly away without exploding.—Parliamentary report —Blue Book, page 179. Dynamite has been in a railway collision and, though the van and boxes containing it were broken, no explosion took place.-^-Blue Book, page 182, par. 2979 Major Majendie, R.A., H.M'3, Inspector of Gunpowder and Dynamite Factories, states, in bis evidence (page 18, par. 100), that the law relating to dynamite is as munh too stringent as the gunpowder law is too lax ; and (page 20, par. 115) that the time has come for relieving safe nitro-glycerine preparations from such unnecessary - restrictions as • the Nitroglycerine Act imposes upon them. Professor Abel, the Chemist to Her Majesty's War Department, gives his experience that Nobel'B dynamite ia one of the safest, most powerful, and moat convenient explosive agents applicable to industrial purpose?. — Blue Book, pages 56, 57. and 59. Agents: E. P O R T E R & CO T , QUEEN STREET, AUCKLAND. 2665