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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2933, 10 July 1878, Page 1

Business "Notices : [ESTABLISHED 1869.] R. WISEMAN, PRACTICAL TAILOR, Bbown Stbeet, GRAHAM S T O W N, T N returning THANK 3 for the large amount I of PATRON AGE, and RECOMMENDATION with which he has been favoured ' during his residence on the Thames, respect- ; fully announces that on account of his i STEADILY INCREASING-, BUSINESS 1 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,* *# F I T ** AND «®° WORKMANSHIP! .Sf ENGLISH AND COLONIAL CLOTHS And TWEEDS in GREAT VARIETY, . ov FIRST-CLASS QUALITY ONLY KEPTj IN STOCK. ENLARCEMENTJF PREMISES. T. WOOD, TTATING- made considerable Alterations and, Additions to his Premises, begs to draw the attention of the Public to his Wellassorted Stock of Men's Clothing" & Tobacconists' Goods. THE CLOTHING DEPARTMENT Will be found to be supplied with every . description of GENTLEMEN'S APPAREL, Which will be sold afr prices to induce pur-; chasers to become regular customers. The Tobacconists' Department \ Is replete with every description of i SMOKERS' REQUISITES, Including the Best Brands of TOBACCO. and CIGARS, MEERSCHAUM and other; Pipes; Pouohes 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 vWOGD^SHORTUND'. POLLEN STREETS A. & G. PRICE ABE PREPARED TO SUPPLY; ! WATER EN GIN ES, Or ant Size or Powbb. Sundry Sizes ready for delivery. Estimates of Hydraulic Machinery of anyj ■ description to be nad on application 1 AT FOUNDRY, GRAHAMSTOWN. 1118 T\ V N AM I T E. JtrsT Abbited, per Qttbbn op the WbStj 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 DrNAMITE DURING TRANSPORT AND STORAGES 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.greafr 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 —Bine. 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 much 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 a* the; Nitre-! gljcerine Act imposes upon them. ; Professor Abel, the Chemist to, Her Majesty's War Department, gives bis experience that Nobel's dynamite : is one of the safest} most powerful, and most convenient explosive agents applicable to industrial purposes.— Blue Book, pages 66, 57. and 59. . Agents: E. PORTER & CO., Z7. QUEEN STREET, AUCKLAND. " 2665