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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2972, 24 August 1878, Page 1

Business Notices WI LLI A M BOBBBTT, BUTrHER (IATS DOBNWSM/s), JEtOLLTSSTON-STREET, KABAKA, 0#?08IT3 THI ENGLISH ChTTBOH, > ■ ' AW3> POLLEN STREET, SHORTLAND. Owned Pork and Beef of the very best . quality. BEST' QUALITY ONLY KEPT. 4M J. COCKS' < ' OKD ESTABLISHED' FURNISHING-— WAREHOUSE MART STREET (Oppositb St. Gbbb&e's Oiittboh). ALWAYS ON HAN D 'A. • < -A- Lar 8e Su PPlv of FURNITURE—New and Second^ hand MATTRESSES CROCKERY IRONMONGERY BRUSHWARE MATTINGS. EVERY DESCRIPTION OF HOUSEHOLDj, REQUISITE At Prices to suit the Times. Goods on Hire. — Soirees Supplied with every Requisite, < ' ■ j AMERICAN CHAIRS. >. T ARGE LOT, JUST RECEIVED, And will be SOLD CHEAP. V. KIESANOWSKI, TAILORS (NEXT BKNDIGO HOTEL,) POLLEN STREET, SHORTLAND. :A LL KINDS OF WORK executed on tbe shortest notice, on the moßfc reasonable term.. . HU ' '■ imperial" INSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON, IUBSCBIBED AKD INVESTED CAPITAL £1,960,000. xifILLIAM McCULLOUGH, ETBNINO STAR OFFICE, Gbahambtowh, Hai been appointed Agent at the Thames tot t*ove well-known and old-established Company, and is prepared to do business on the most favourable terms., W. H. ABMBTEOH9, T\~~Y N "A M I T E . rifesi Abbiyed, per.QuBBM or ran West, from-London — TEN TONS DYNAMITE, DETONATORS, BATTERY, INSULATED COPPER "WIRE, Etc., Etc., Etc. PYNAMITE ii the Safest ond Most Powerful Explosive in use. - THE SAFETY OF DYNAMITE DURING TRANSPORT AND STOUAGE. 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 hare also been placed upon an open fire, when the dynamite burned slowly away without ex-plodiiiK-—Parliamentary report—Blno Book, has been in a railway collision and,' though the van and boxes containing it were broken, no explosion took place.—Blue Tinnir nftire 182 i P&r« 2979 MajoP r Majendie/R-A., HM' 3. Inspector of Gunpowder and Dynamite Factories, states in hTevidence (page 18, par. M»l, U»t tt« taw relating to dynamite is as much too as the gunpowder law istoolox; and (page 20, par. 115) that the, time has come for re- ' lie&g safe nitroglycerine P»P" BJ[°" B*^ such unnecessary.restrictions as the Nitroglycerine Act imposes upon them. . Professor Abel,' the Chemist to Her Majesty's War Department, gives hit experience that Nobel's dynamite is one of the safest, mest poWerful, and most convenient explosive agent* applicable to industrial purposes.— .Blue Book, pages 56, 57. and 59. Agents : % PORTER & CO., . 4UEEN STREET, AUCKLAND.^