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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2969, 21 August 1878, Page 1

Business Notices WI LLI A M BOBBETT, BUTCHER (IATR DOBNWKLIi's), bollbston-steeet, karaka, Opposite thb English Ohubcf, and POLLEtf STREET, SHORTLAND. Oontftd Pork and Beef of the very best quality. BSST QUALITY ONLY KEPT. 465 ck cocks' OM> ESTABMSHED FUBNIBHINQ—--—WAEEHOTJSE MARY STKEET (Opposite St. Ge©ege's Chttboh). ALWAYS ON HAND A Large Supply of FURNITURE—New and SecondLand 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 AEGE LOT, JUST RECEIVED, And will be SOLD CHEAP. V. KIESANOWSKI, TAILOR, (Nixt Bendigo Hotel,) POLLEN STREET, SHORTLAND. A LL KINDS OF WORK executed on the.shortest notice, on the most reasonable terms. " 1447 ~ IMPERIAL ~ INSUEANCE COMPANY OF LONDON. [ÜBSORIBED AND INVESTED CAPITAL £1,950,000. TT7ILLIAM McCULLOUGH, EVENING- STAR OFPIOJ, Gbahambtowk, Hat been appointed Agent at the Thames for above well-known and old-establishod Company, and is prepared to do business on the moßt favourable terms. W. H. Abmstbono, »2 Agent. ' . j\ ... V : N AM' I . T E. ■ Jtjbt Abbived, per Queen or ihb West, from London- — J; TEN TONS DYNAMITE, DETONATORS, BATTERY, INSULATED COPPER WIRE, Etc., Etc., Etc. PYNAMITE is the Safest and Most Power- : j»l Explosive in use. ; THE SAFEW OF DYNAMITE DURING • TRANSPORT AND STOKAGE. Extracts from fche-Official evidence given before - ; > the House of Commons Belect 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 ah open fire, when " the'dynamite burned slowly away without exploding— Parliamentary report—Blue Book, page 179. . „ ... . Dynamite has been m a railway collision and, though the van and boxes containing it were broken, no explosion took place.—Blue - Book, page 182, par. 2979_ . Maior 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 much too stringent as the gunpowder law is too lax; »nd (page 20, par? 115) that the time has come for re, lieving safe nitro-glycerine preparations from '. f uch/unnecessary restrictions as the JXitro- ' dvcerine Act imposes upon them. _ ' Professor Abel, the Chemist to Her Ma- ' iesty's War Department, gives hi» experience „ that Nobel's dynamite ia one of tbe safest, most powerful, and most convenient explosive scents applicable to industrial, purposes.— i Blue Book, pages 66, 57. and 59. Agents: . E PORTER & CO., • QUEEN STREET, AUCKLAND. /* 2665