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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2960, 10 August 1878, Page 1

Business Notices TT7 I LLT A M BOBBBTT, VV BTTTCHER (LATH DOBNWBIL'n), KABAKA, dpposiTS thb English Ohxtrch, and POLLEN STREET, SHORTLAND, Qorvfjft Pork and Boof of the very best quality. BRST QUALITY ONLY KBPT. 4M5 J. COCKS' OLD ESTABLISHED FUBNISHING —- WAHEUOTJSfc MARY STREET (Opposite St. Gesrge's Church). ALWAYS ON HAND A Large Supply of FURNITURE—New and Secondhand MATTRESSES CROCKERY IRONMONGERY BRUSHWARE MATTINGS. EVERY DESCRIPTION OF HOUSEHOLD REQUISITE At Prices to suit; the Times. Goods on Hire. — Soirees Supplied with every Requisite, AMERICAN CHAIRS. T ARGE LOT, JUST RECEIVED, And will be SOLD CHEAP. V. KIESANOWSKI, TAILOR, (Nzxt Bendigo Hotei,) POLLEN STREET, SHORTLAND. A LL KINDS OF WORK executed on the shortest notice, on the most reasonable ten* - "» IMPERIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON. |TJ,BSCRIBED AND INVESTED CAPITAL £1,950,000. TT7ILLIAM McCULLOUGH, .YY ... EVENING BTAB.OF.FIOB/ Gbahamstown, Hoi been appointed Agont at tho Thames for above -well-known and old-established Company, and in prepared to do business on the most favourable terms. W. H. AbmstbonQ, 32 AgentT^Y I* A M I T E. Just Abbiyed, per Queen of thb West,. from London — TEN TONS DYNAMITE, DETONATORS, BATTERY, INSULATED COPPER WIRE, Etc., Etc., Etc. DYNAMITE is the Safest and Most Powerful Erplosive in uae. THE SAFETY OF DYNAMITE DURING TRANSPORT AND STOKAGE. Extracts from the Official evidence given before the House ©f 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 bpen placed upon an open fire, when the dynnmite burned slowly nway without exploding—Parliamentary report —Bluo B^ok, page 179. Dynamite baa been in a railway collision -and, though the van and box^s containing it were broken, no explosion took place.—Blue Book, page 182, par. 2979 Major Majendie, R.A., EM'S. Inspector of Gunpowder and Dynamite Factories, stateß, in his evidence (pagie 18, par. 100), that the law relating to dynamite ie as mnolrtoo stringent as the gunpowder law is too lax ; and (page 20, par. 1-15) that tho time has come for relieving safe nitro-giycerine preparations from Mich unnecessary restrictions as the JNitroelycerine Act imposes upon.them. Professor Abel, the Ohemiel to Her MaießW's War Department; gives his experience that Nobel's dynamite is one of the safeeC, most powerful, and moet convenient explosive agents applicable to industrial purposes — Blue Book, pogos 56, 57. and 59. Agents : E. P O E T E R & CO., QUEEN STREET, AUCKLAND. 2665