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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2973, 26 August 1878, Page 1

Business Notices WI LLI A M BOBBETT, BUTCHER (ULM DOBNWMI'S), BOLLBSTON-STBBET, KABAKA, Clfesxri thb Eh€Hi»h Omvxoir, , U AITD POLLEN STREET, SHORTLAND. Oeraed Fork and Beef of the very beit quality. BIST QUALITY ONL7 KEPT. 405 J. COCKS' OH> SSTABUBHED FURNISHING— —WAREHOUSE MAEY ,STREET (Opposite St. Gs»bge's Chuboh). ALWAYS ON HAND A Large Supply of ' ' FURNITURE—New and Secondhand ! MATTRESSES CROCKERY IRONMONGERY . ' , , BRUSHWARE \ MATTINGS. - . ■ " BVERY DESCRIPTION OP HOUSE- .' HOLD REQUISITE At Prices to suit the Times. . i Goods on Hire.—-Seireea Supplied, with • every Requisite, :, ; AMEHIGAN CHAIRS;! t - f • i j < • ' i T ABGE LOT, JUST RECEIVED, , And' will be SOLD CHEAP. , V. KIESANOWSKI,; , TAILOR, ?l . ■ ,'.' (NBXTBBHPiaoHOTKD,) „ , } POLLEN, BTREET,, SHORTLAND. •A LL KINDS OF WORK executed on 1.,, the shortest notice, on the most reasonable ■ terms. 1447 ~ IMPERIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON. |ÜBSCRIBED A*? INVESTED CAPITAL £1,950,000. ! tttiiiLlam: mcOullough, EVENING STAR OFFICE, GaiHiMBTOWir, Hat been appointed' Agent at the Thames for tAove well-blown and oW-established Company, and is prepared, to do business on the most favourable terms. W. H. AsKSTBOira, , »2 Agent. t^Ty n a m i t c. Jtrsx Abbived, per Qtnnw o* tub West, from London — TIN 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 STORAGE. 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 report—Blue Book, P*Dynamite has been in a railway collision and, tho«gh the van and boxes containing it were broken, no explosion took place.—Blue ■ftSfiSSCiTKJM. In.p Mto , of Gunpowder and Dynamite Factories, states, in his evidence (page 18, par. 100), that the law relating to dynamite is as much too stringent v the gunpowder law is too lax j and (page 20, par? 115) that the time has come for re- ' lining safe n itro-glycerine preparations from Inch unnecessary restrictions as the Nitroglycerine Act imposes upon them. ■ Professor Abel, the Chemist to Her Majesty. War Department, gires.bis experience that Nobel's dynamite is one of the safest, Sest powerful, and most convenient explosive Sentl^applicable to industrial purpose..Blue Book, pages 56^57. and 59. Agents : E PORTER & CO., • QUEEN STREET, AUCKLAND.^