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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2966, 17 August 1878, Page 1

Business Notices WI LLI AM BOBBETT, BUTfHER (LATH DOBNWJU's), ROLLESTON-STREET, KARAKA, Oppositb thb English Chttbch, AND POJ^SEN STREET, SHORTLAND. Corned Pork and Beef of the ',very best quality. BEST QUALITY ONLY KEPT. 466 J. COCKS' OLD ESTABLISHED FUBMSHING— WAKEHOTJSE MAEY STEEET .(Opposite St. Ge©ege'B Ohuboh). ALWAYS ON HAND A Large Supply of FUJJNITUEE-—New and Secondhand MATTEESSES CEOCKEEY lEONMONGEEY BEUSHWAEE MATTINGS. EVERY DESCRIPTION, OF HOUSEHOLD REQUISITE At Prices to suit the Times. Goods on Hire. — Soirees Supplied with every Requisite., AMERICAN CHAIRS. T AEGE LOT, JUST EECEIVED, And will be SOLD CHRAP. V. KIESANOWSKI, T'AIIO E, (Next Bendigo Hoxbl;) . POXLEN STEEET, SHOETLAND. A LL KINDS OF WORK executed on the shortest notice, on the most reasonable terms. ' 1447 IMPERIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON. lU.BSCRIBED AND INVESTED CAPITAL £i; 950,000. TT7ILLIAM McOULLOUGH, EVENING STAR OFFICE, Gbahamstowk, Hai 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. ABMBTBON&, &2 Agent. .i tx V■ N a" M I T? 8~. JUBT A£f%YET>t per QtTEBW OB THS WEST, "»^^ from London — TEN TONS DYNAMITE, DETONATORS, BATTERY, INSULATED COPPER WIRE, Etc., Etc., Etc. DYNAMITE is the. Safest and Most Powerful Explosive in use. THE SAFETY OF DYNAMITE DURING TRANSPORT AND STOUAGB. Extracts from the Official evidence given before the House of Commons Select Committee on Explosive Substances—Parliamentary Session of i 874, 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 bis 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 ({(age 20, par. 115) that the time b,as come for relieving safe nitro-glycerine preparations from ■uoh unnecessary restriction* as the Nitroclycerine 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 most convenient explosive agents applicable 'to industrial purposes.— Blue Book, pages 56, 57. and 59. ..:: ■ Agents: ■»■■•?■■ E P 0 R T E B & CO., ' QUEEN STREET, AUCKLAND^