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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2987, 15 July 1878, Page 4

Hotels, etc Commercial Hotel, HAMILTON . WEST, WAIKATO. W. U. PKAItOK, (Late of the Whaep Hotel, Thames, and Royal Mail, Auckland), INFORMS hia Old Friends and Customira that he has just entered upon the above ! Hotel, which is one of the Best Houses in the Colony for Convenience and Comfort. It comprises Dining Room, 50 feet by 21 feet j Parlours, 22 Bedrooms, Billiard Room, and all the conveniences of a First-class Hotel, Rooms en suite for Private Families and Tourists? with Good Table, Superior Wines and Spirits, and the best attendance. Every convenience for Commercial geutleinen. First-class Double-seated Buggy, Horses for Saddle and Harness, aud Twelve-stall Stable. W. H. Pearce would remind his former patrons and the public generally that they will find at the Commercial accommodation equal to any in the first City in the Colonies, with moderate charge*. The House is new, the rooms lofty and well ventilated, and the whole of the Jurnilure.is now. 2477 The Auckland Hotel, Queen and High Stbeets. npHE Proprietor would respectfully direct JL special attention to the central position of the Dining Rooms attached to his Commodious Family Hotel, and to the superior accommodation which it affords, not only to city business people, country visitors, ladies and gentlemen arriving in Auckland either by Bteumer or sailing vessels, but to the public generally. Every Delicacy of the Season provided. English and American Illustrated Newspapers aro laid on the tables immediately on arrival of each Muil Steamer. ; Civil and obliging attendants. Peicub—The most moderate in Auckland. Breakfast, Dinner, and Tea-time arranged so as to meet the convenience of all classes. 2302

TV V N-- A MIT E. Just Abbived, per Queen op the West, from London— TEN TONS DYNAMITE, DETONATORS, BATTERY, INSULATED f' COPPER WIRE, Etc., Etc., Etc. DYNAMITE is the Safest and Most Powerful Explosive in nse. THE SAFETY OF DYNAMITE DURING TRANSPORT AND STORAGE. Extracts from the Official evidence given before the House of Commons Select Committee on Explosive Substances—Parliamentary ' Session of 1874, London. - Boxeß filled with dynamite have been thrown from a great height, and found to sustain any amount of shock without exploding. They have aho been placed upon ah open fire, when the dynamite burned slowly away without exploding.—Parliamentary report —Blub Book, page 179. . Dynamite has been in a railway collision and, though the van and boxes containing it were broken, no explosion took place.—Jßlue Book, page 182, par. 2979 . ' Major Majendie, R:A., H.MS. Inspector of Gunpowder and 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 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's dynamite is one of the safest, most powerful, and most convenient explosive agents applicable to industrial purposes.— Blue Book, pages 56, 57. and 59. Agents; E. P O R T E R & CO., QUEEN STREET, AUCKLAND. 2665

STEEDMAN'S SOOTHING POWDERS job CHILDREN CUTTING TEETH. CAUTION TO PURCHASERS. The value of this well known Family Medicine has been largely tested in .all parts of the world, and by all grades of society, for upwards of FIFTY YEARS. Its well-earned extensive Bale has induced SPURIOUS IMITATIONS, some o£ which" in OUTWARD APPEARANCE so closely resemble the original as to have deceived many purchasers. The proprietor therefore feels it due to the public to give a special caution against the use of SUCH IMITATIONS. Purchasers are therefore requested carefully to observe the four following distinctive characteristics, without which none are genuine;— Ist—ln every case the words JOHN 1 STEEDMAN, CHEMIST, WALWORTH, SURREY, are engraved on the Government Stamp affixed to each packet. '■ 2nd—Each Single Powder has directions for the dose, and the words, John Stbbdman, Chemist, Wai worth, Surrey, printed thereon. Bra>—The name Steedman is always spelt with two EE's. 8; 4th—The manufacture is carried oh solely at Walworth, Surrey. Sold in Packets by all Chemists and Medicine "Vendors. Sold by Kbmpthobhb, Pbobbbb, and Co., Auckland. tu1.986 " THE'DEBTOES AND CEEDITOES ACT, 1876. mH E EVENING STAB (THAMES) H&.. *>een appointed a Gazette under the above Act. EOR SALE — FREEHOLD ALLOTMENTS in Mackay street, with Threeroomed COTTAGES erected thereon. Price £80 to £100. Apply to A. Hxtm£, Agent, Albert street \. t ECEJPT BOOES of all V'"nde, n cms M\ mental script letter at fcho EvßNlue i mab Office. ■.;.■■■•