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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2961, 12 August 1878, Page 1

Business Notices WILLIAM BOBBETT, BUTCHER (LATB BOJirWKI'B), ROLLESTON-STREET, KARAKA, Opposite thb English Chubob, AND POLLEN STBEET, SHORTLAND. Corned -£otk. and Beef of the very best quality. BEST QUALITY "ONLY KEPT. 465 J. COCKS' ii ©ED '■kSMBIISHED . • ■■' FUENISHTNG—--—WAREHOUSE MARY STREET . (Opposite St* Gesbge's Chuboh). ALWAYS O N H AO, A Large Supply of FURNITURE—New and Secondhand MATTRESSES CROCKERY IRONMONGERY BRUSHWARE MATTINGS. EVERY DESCRIPTION OF HOUSE- - HOLD 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, T A I L O R, (Next Bendigo Hotbi,) . , POLLEN STREET, SHORTLAND. i,IL KINDS T)F "WORK executed on the shortest notice, on the most reasonable terms. 1447 IMPERIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OE LONDON. lUBBCBIBED AND INVESTED CAPITAL £1,950,000. , TT7ILLIAM McCULLOUGH, ' EVENING STAR OFFICE, Gbahamstown, Hat been appointed Agent at the Thames for above well-known and old-established Company, and is prepared to do business on the most favourable terms. ' . * W. H. ABM8TBON&, &2 . Agent. T\ V N : A MI . T E. j Jxtbt Abbived, per Qtteeu gs the West, r—-^:. from London — TENDONS DYNAMITE, DETONATORS, BATTERY, INSULATED COPPER WIREi Etc., Eto.^ 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 Subs tances-r 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—Blue Book, pagel79. ' „. . Dynamite has been m a railway collision and, though the van and boxes containing.it were broken, no exploaion took place. —Blue Book, page 182, par. 2979 , „ Major Majendie, R.A., H.MS. Inspector of Gunpowder and Dynamite Factories, Btates, in his evidence (page 18, par. : 100), that the law relating to dynamite is as much too stringent as the gun powder law is too lax; and (page 20, par. 115) that the time has come for relieving safe nitroglycerine preparation s_from such unnecessary restrictions as the Nitroglycerine Act imposes upon them.; . Professor Abel, the Chemist to Her Mafesty's War Department, gives his experience that Nobel's dynamite is one of the safest, meat 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^