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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2928, 4 July 1878, Page 1

Business Notices [Established 1869.] R WISEMAN, PRACTICAL TAILOR, Brown Street, GEAHAM S T O W N, T N returning THANKS for the largo amount 1 of PATRONAGE and RECOMMEN DATION with which he has been favoured during his residence.on the Thames, respectfully announces that on account of his STEADILY INCREASING- BUSINESS HE HAI REMOVED TO LARGER AND MORE COMMODIOUS PREMISES (Seven Doors from the Bank of Now 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,* ** F I T ** and' • tS- WORKMANSHIP I M» ENGLISH AND COLONIAL CLOTHS And TWEEDS in GREAT VARIETY, ; ■■• ■ '■ op v'FIRST CLASS QUALITY ONLY KEPT IN STOCK. ENLARGEMENT^ PREMISES. 1. WOOD, TTAVING made considerable Alterations and Additions to his Premises, begs to draw the attention of the Public to his Wellassorted Stock of ICons Clothing &_ Tobacconists' Goods. THE CLOTHING DEPARTMENT Will be found to be supplied with every description of : , ; ; GENTLEMEN'S APPAREL, Which will be sold at prices to induce pur- . chasers 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. I. WOOD, | BH ORTLAND. POLLEN STREET) ■^ATER JQNGINES! A. & GL PRICE A RE PREPARED TO SUPPLY TWATEE EN G-.I N B S, Oi? any Size on Poweb. Sundry Sizes ready for delivery. Estimates of Hydraulic Machinery of any description to be nadon application: AT FOUNDRY, GRAHAMSTOWN. 1118 TV V N A MI T E. Just Abbived, per Queen of the West, from London-—? , TEN TONS DYNAMITE, DETONATORS, BATTERY, INSULATED COPPER WIRE, Etc., Etc., Etc; \ DYNAMITE is the Safest and Most Powerful Explosive in use. THE SAFETY OF DYNAMITE DURING TRANSPORT AND STOKAGE. Extracts from the Official evidence given before the House of Commons Select Committee on Explosive Substances —Parliamentary Session of 1874, London. .' ! Soxes filled with dynamite have been thrown from a great height, and found to sustain any amount of shock without-exploding. They hare also been placed upon an open fire, when the dynamite burned slowly away without 'exploding.— Parliamentary reports—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.MS. Inspector of Gunpowder arid Dynamite Factories, states, in his evidence (page 18, par. 100), that the law relating to dynamite is as much too stringent as the gunpowder law is too lax ;•_ and (page 20, par. 115) that the time has come for re-, lieving 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's dynamite is 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., QUEEN STREET, AUCKLAND. 2665