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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2941, 19 July 1878, Page 4

Hotels, etc Commercial Hotel, HAMILTON WEST, WAIKATO. W. 11. PEAECE, (Late of the Whaef Hotel, Thames, and Royal Mail, Auckland), TNFORMS his Old Friends and Customers X. that lie has just entered upon the above Hotel, which is one of the Best Houses in the Colony for Convenience find Comfort. It comprises Dining Room, 50 feet by 21 feet; Parlours, 22 Bedrooms, Billiard ftoom, and all tho conveniences of a Firstclasß Hotel, Rooms en suite for Private Families and Tourists; with Good Table, Superior Wines and Spirits, and the best attendance. Every convenience for Commercial gentlemen. First-class Double-seated Buggy, Horses for Saddle and Harness, aud Twelve-stall Stable. W. H. Pearce would remind his former patrons and tho public generally that they will find at the Commercial accommodation equal to any in the first City in the Colonies, with moderate charges. The House is new, tho rooms lofty and well ventilated, and the whole of the furniture is new. 2477 The Auckland Hotel, Queen *and High Stbeets. fTtHE Proprietor would respectfully direct X special attention to the central position of the Dining Rooms attached to his Commodious Family Hotel, and to the suporior accommodation which it affords, not only to city business people, country visitors, ladies and gentlemen arriving in Auckland either by steamer or sailing vessels, but to the public generally. Every Delicacy of theSease-D provided. English and American Illustrated Newspapers are laid on the tables immediately on arrival of each Mail Steamer. Civil trad obliging attendants. PeiceS—-The most moderate in Auckland. Breakfast, Dinner, and Tea-timei arranged so as to meet the convenience of all classes. 2302 TV V N A M I T E. Just Aeeived, 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 STORAGE. 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 ex-ploding.-—Parliamentary report —Bluo Book, page 179. Dyrjamite 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 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 ngeuts applicable to industrial purposes.— Blue Book, pages 56, 57. and 59. Agents: E. P OR T E R & CO., QUEEN STREET, AUCKLAND. 2665 STEEDMAN'S SOOTHING POWDERS FOB 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 sale has induced SPURIOUS IMITATIONS, some of'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 hone are "genuine;— 1st —In every case the words JOHN 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 Stjebdhan, Chemist, Walworth, Surrey, printed thereon, 3rd—The name Steedman is always spelt with two EE's. 4th—The manufacture is carried on solely at Wnlworth, Surrey. Sold in Packets By all Chemists and Medicine Vendors. Sold by Kemithobnb, PfiosSEß, and Co., Auckland. tui.9B6 " THE.DEBTORS AND CREDITORS ACT, 1876. Tp-HE- EVENING STAR (THAMES) H&l heen appointed a Gazette under the above Act. FOR SALE — FREEHOLD ALLOTMENTS in Mackay street, with Threeroomed COTTAGES erected thereon. Price £80 to £100. Apply to A. Hume, Agent, Albert 6treet • - .irCKiri £00.18 oi all kinds, .norrjtt £ i uieutal uciipt icfcUr, at the Kywise VJAfc Office.. ' • ... j