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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2970, 22 August 1878, Page 1

Business Notices WILLIAM BOBBKTT, BUTCHER (liATB DOBNWBM.'B), BOLLESTON-STREET, KARA&A, Opposite thb Engmsh Chtjhcf, AKD POLL^STREET, SHORTLAND. Corned Pork and Beef of the Tory best quality. BEST QUALITY ONLY KEPT. 466 J COCKS' OLD ESTABLISHED FUBNIBHING —WAREHOUSE" MARY STREET (Opposite St. Gbqbge's Chtooh). ALWAYS ON HAND A Large Supply of FURNITURE—New and Secondhand MATTRESSES CROCKERY IKONMONGERY BRUSHWARE . MATTINGS. EVERY DESCRIPTION OF HOUSEHOLD 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, TAILOR, (Next Bendiso Hotel,) POLLEN STREET, SHORTLAND. ALL KINDS OF WORK executed on the shortest notice, on the most reasonable terms. M# IMPERIAL INSURANCE- COMPANY OF LONDON, SUBSCRIBED AND INVESTED ; . CAPITAL £1,950,000. r|7 ILLIAM McCULLOUGH, EVENING STAR OFFICE, Gbahamsto-wh, Hai been appointed Agent at the Thames for above well-known and old-established Companyj ,and i« prepared to do business on the most favourable terms. W. H. AbmstbonG, '■•' . ■ 32 Agent. y\ N A M I T E. Jtjbt Abbivkd/ ~j>er >Queen of the West, 5 from Xoj|don— TEN TONS DYNAMITE, DETONATORS, BATTERY, INSULATED COPPER WIRE, Etc., Etc., Etc. IYNAMITE ig the Safest and Most Powerful Explosive in u»e. THE SAFETY OF DYNAMITE DURING TRANSPORT AND STOUAGE. Extracts from the Official evidence givon before the House ef Commons Select Committee on Explosive Substances—Parliamentary Session of 1874, London. j Boxes filled with dynamite have been thrown J 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—Bluo Book, page 179. .. .... Dynamite ho? been in a railway collision and/though the van and boxes containing it vrero broken, no explosion took place.—Blue Book, page 182, par. 2979 Maior Majendie, R.A., H.M'3. Inspector of Gunpowder and Dynamite Factories, states, in his evidence (page 18, par. 100), that the law relating to dynamite is ns much too stringent as tbe gunpowder law is too lax ; and (page 20, par. 115) that the time has come for relieving safe nitro-glycerine preparations from auch unnecessary restrictions as the JSUrofiiycerine Act imposes upon them. Professor Abel, the Chemist to Her^Majesty'e War Department, gires hia experience that Nobel's dynamite is one of the safest, most powerful, and most convenient explosive pgerits applicable to industrial purposes; — Blue Book, pages 56, 57. and 59. Agents: E. V O R T E R & CO., QUEEN STREET, AUCKLAND.