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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2962, 13 August 1878, Page 1

Business Notices WILLIAM BOBBETT, BUTCHER (LATE DOBNWELIi's), BOLLESTON-STREET, XARAKA, Oppobitjs thb English Chuboh, AND POLLEN STREET, SHORTL AND. Corned Pork and Beef of the very best quality. QUALITY ONLY KEPT. 485 J. COCKS' OLD ESTABLISHED : FUEMSHIM—-—-WAREHOUSE , MARY STREET (Opposite St. Geoege's Ohtooh). 1 ifAIS ON HAND jeL A Large Supply of FURNITURE—New and Second- ■. . 'hand. '.;■■.- .•■.■':. MATTRESSES CROCKERY ; IRONMONGERY. ERUSHWARE MATTINGS. EVERY DESCRIPTION OF HOUSEHOLD REQUISITE At Priceß to suit tho Times. Goods on Hire. — Soirees Supplied with every Requisite, AMERICAN CtJAIRS. T ARGE LOT, JUST RECEIVED, And will be SOLD CHEAP. V. KiESANOWSKI, TAILOR, (Next Bendigo Hotel,) POLLEN STREET, SHORTLAND. ALL KINDS OF WORE! executed on the shortest notice, on the most reasonable terms. 14A? " IMPERIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON. lUBSCBIBED AND INVESTED CAPITAL £1,950,000. YJTT ILLIAM MgGULLOUGH, EVENING ST A R 6IF 1 0 B, Gbahambto-wNi Hal been appointed Agent at the Thames for* afeote well-mown and pld-established/ Company, and is prepared to do business on the most favourable terms. . W. H. Abmst»on», &2 Agent. ■ T\ '%.''■ N . A. ;'M. /I: ';T M. Just Aebited, per Qtteen gb the West, , . from London — \ TEN TQNS DYNAMITE, DETONA^OBS, BATTEEY,INSULATED COPPER WIRE, Eto.,/Eto<, Etc. DYjSAMITE ,i« the Safeßt and Most Power- ■^ ' \ ful Exploairein use. ; THE "SAFETY OF DYNAMITE DURING TRANSPORT AND STORAGE. Extracts from'the Officiali.evidence given before the House ©f Commons Select Committee on Explosive 'Subitances—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 slowJy away without ex-ploding.—-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.-rßlue 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 munh too stringent as the gunpowder law is too lax j and (page, 20, par. 115) that the time has come for relieving safe nitro-glycerine.preparations_from •uch 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 moat convenient explosive agents applicable 'to industrial purposes.— Blue Book, pages 56, 57. and 59. Agents: i E. PORTER & CO., I QUEEN STREET, AUCKLAND. U