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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2943, 22 July 1878, Page 4

Hotels, etc Commercial Hotel, HAMILTON WEST, WAIKATO. W. U. FE AIICE, (Late of the Wharf Hotel, Thames, and Royal Mail, Auckland), TNFORMS his Old Friends and Customers JL that ho has ju6t entered upon the above Hotel, which is oco of the Best Houses in the Colony for Convenience and Comfort. It comprises Dining Room, 50 feet by 21 foot; Parlours, 22 Bedrooms, Billiard Hoom, and all the conveniences of a First class Hotel, Rooms en suite for Private Families and Tourists; with GtooA Table, Superior Wines and Spirits, end the beßt attendance. Every convenience for Commercial gentlemen. First-class Double-seated Buggy, Horses for Saddle and Harness, and Twelve-stall Stable. W. H. Pearee 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 charges. The Houbo is new, the rooms lofty and. well ventilated, and the whole of the furniture is now. 2477

The Auckland Hotel, QtTEEK AND HIGH SIBEETfI., fTHE Proprietor would respectfully direct X special attention to the central position of the Dining Rooms attached to his Commodious Family Hotel, and to the Bupoiior accommodation which it affords, not only to city busincts people, country visitors, ladieß and gentlemen arriving in Auckland either by steamer or sailing vessels, but to the public generally. Every Delicacy of the Season provided. English and American Illustrated Newspapers are laid on the tables immediately on arrival of each Mail Steamer. * Civil and obliging attendants. Pbices —The most moderate in Auckland. Breakfast, Dinner, and Tea-time arranged so as to meet the convenience of all classes. . 2302

\j~\ V N A MI T E. Jfst Abbived, per Queen of the West, from London— TEN TONS DYNAMITE, DETONATORS, BATTERY, INSULATED COPPER WIRE, Etc., Etc., Etc. DYNAMITE ia 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. 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.MS. Inspector of Gunpowder and Dynamite Factories, states, in his evidence (page 18, par. 100), that the law relating to dynamite is as niuoh 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 auch unnecessary restrictions as tho; Nitroglycerine Act imposes upon them. Professor Abel, the Cbeiriet 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 purpose?. — Blue Book, pages 56, 57. and 59. , Agents: E. PORTER & 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 YEABS. 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 none are genuine;— 1st —In every case the words JOHN STEEDMAN, CHEMIST, WALWORTE, SURREY, are engraved on tho Government Stamp affixed to each packet. 2nd—Each Single Powder has directions for the dose, and the words, John Steebman, Chemist, Walworth, Surrey, printed thereon. 3rd—The name Steedman is always spelt with two EE's. 4th—The manufacture is carried on solely at Walworth, Surrey. Sold in Packets by all Chemists and Medicine Vendors. Sold by Kbmpthobne, Piwsseb, and Co., Auckland, "" tu1986 " THE DEBTORS AND CREDITORS ACT, 1876. niHE EVENING STAR (THAMES) Hia. J'een 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 street ... ECEJPT BOOKS of ell kinds, n orna 11 mentul aevipt letter tst the BVKHIHG >TAa Cfcce,