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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2963, 14 August 1878, Page 1

Business Notices TTT I LLI AM BOPBITT, W BUTfHEB (latb bohnwhil's), ROLLESTON-STREET, KARAKA, Oppobit* thi English Chttbcb, ANB POLLEN STREET, SHORTLAND. OoratA Pork and Beef of the very best • . . quality. #EST QUALITY ONLS" KEPT. 485 J. COCKS' OLD ESTABLISHED FTJENISHING——WABEHOUSE MARY STREET (Oppositb St. Geqkgb'b Ohttboh). ALWAYS ON HAN D A Large Supply of FURNITURE--New and Second-: ' band I MATTRESSES CROCKERY IRONMONGERY BRUSHWARE MATTINGS. EVERY DESCRIPTION OF HOUSEHOLD REQUISITE At Prices to suit the Times. Goods oh Hire.— Soirees Supplied with every Reijnißite, AMERICAN CHAIRS. T ARGE LOT, JUST RECEIVED, And will be SOLD CHEAP. V. EIESANOWSKI, TAILOR, (Neet Bendiqo Hotbi,) POLLEN STREET, SHORTLAND. A 1 LL KINDS OF WORE executed on tbe shortest notice, on the most reasonable terms. 144* IMPERIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON. IUBBOBIBED AND INVESTED CAPITAL £1j950,000. TT7ILLIAM McCULLOUGH, B YEN ING STAR OFFICE, GBiHAMBTOW», Hat been appointed Agent at the Thames for riofe well-known and old-established Company, and is prepared to do business on the most favourable terms. W. H. ABMBTBONO, »2 Agent. T\ V/ N A M I T E~; Jttst Abbived, per Qtibbk of the West, from London —: . . TEN TONS DYNAMITE, DETONATORS, BATTERY, INSULATED ;^PPER WIRE, Etfd, Etc., Etc. DYNAMITE is the Safest and Most Powerful Explosive in uee. 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 tbe dynamite burned slowly away without exploding.— Parliamentary reports-Blue Book, page 179. Dynamite has been m a railway collisioa »nd, though the van and boxes containing it ■were broken, no,explosion took place.—Blue Book, page 182, par. 2979 a 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 lnx; and (page 20, par? 115) that the time has come for reHevmg 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 bw^expenence that Nobel's dynamite is one of the Barest, most powerful, and moat convenient explosive agents applicable to industrial purposes.— Blue Book, pageß 56, 57. and 59. k. Agents: E. P O R T E R & CO., QUEEN STREET, AUCKLAND. , 2665