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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2971, 23 August 1878, Page 1

Business Notices WILLIAM BOBBETT, BUTCHER (IATB DOBNWBLL'S), ROIXESTON-STREET, KABAKA, Ohpobitb thb English Chubch, POLLEN STREET, SHORTLAND. Oornad Porfc and Beef of the very beet quality. BEST QUALITY ONLY KEPT. 465 J. COCKS' 01D ESTABLISHED FUBNISHINft ■ " ■ —WAREHOUSE MARY STEEET (Opposite St. GEenGE's CmraoH). ALWAYS ON HAND A Large Supply of FURNITURE—New and Secondhand 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 ARGE LOT, JUST RECEIVED, And will be SOLD CHEAP. V. •-KIESANOWSKI," TAILOR, (Next Benpiqo Hotei,) POLLEN STREET, SHORTLAND. \ LL KINDS OF WORE executed on the shortest notice, on the most reasonable term!. . 1447 IMPERIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON. |ÜBSCRIBED AND INVESTED CAPITAL £1,950,000. TTJILLIAM McCULLOUGH, EVENING STAR OFIIOB, GttAHAMSTOWN, Has 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. ABMSTBONa, »2 Agent. V Nil ii I T E~.' w ■ ——. Jttbx Aebited, per Qtjeek op the West, ■ from London— TEN TONS DYNAMITE, DETONATORS, BATTERY, INSULATED .COPPER WIRE, Etc., Etc., Etc. iPYNAMITE in the Safest and Most Powerful Explosive in use. THE SAFETY OF DYNAMITE DURING "TRANSPORT AND STOKAGE. 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 the dynamite burned slowly away without exploding.— Parliamentary reports-Blue Book, pace 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 bb mu«h too stringent as the gunpowder law is too lax; «nd (page 20, par. 115) that the time has come for relieving Bafe nitro-glycerine preparations from iuoh unnecessary restrictions as the JSitroglycerine Act imposes upon them. Profeesor 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 : E. P O R T E R & CO., QUEEN STREET, AUCKLAND. ; . . ■ ZvOv