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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2974, 27 August 1878, Page 1

Business Notices WILLIAM BOBBETT, BUTCHER (LATB KOBNWBIiL'B), BOLLESTON-STBEET, KABAKA, Opposite th» Enchish Ohttbcb, ahd POLLEN STBEET, SHOBTLAND. Ooraad Pork and Beef of the very best quality. BEST QUALITY ONLY KEPT. 486 J. COCKS' i OliD ESTABLISHED < I f FUENISHING—- . - —WAREHOUSE MARY STREET , (Opposite St. Geok&e?B Ohueoh). ALWAYS ON HIND. - A Large Supply of j FURNITURE—New and Sedondhand MATTRESSES CROCKERY IRONMONGERY \ BRUSHWARE • • 1 MATTINGS. ■ ' ''> EVERY DESCBIPTION OF HOUSEHOLD BEQTjISITE At Prices to suit'the Times. Goods on Hire. — Soirees Supplied i with every Bequisite, AMERICAN CHAIRS. -^— ■ ii T ARGE LOT, JUST RECEIVED, ■ ' And will be SOLD CHEAP. V. KIESANOWSKI, TAILOR', (Next Bim>i«o Hoißt,) POLLEN STREET, SHORTLAND. i 1L KINDS OF WOBK executed on the shortest notico, on the most reasonable , "~^ IMPERIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON. ;ÜBSCRIBED AITD INriSTED CAPITAL £1,950,000. ' I , TTTILLIAM MoCULLOUGH, BTENING STAB OIFIOB, Gbahambtowk, Has betn appointed Agent at the Thames for above well-known and oH-estab'lish«d Company) and is prepared to do business on the most favourable terms. W. H. Ambtbok», - y A M I T E. Jvit Abbivbp, per Qubew of thh Wbst, from London — ten tons dynamite, dSjtonatobs, batteby, insulated COPPEB WIBE, Etc., Etc., Etc. DYNAMITE is the Safest and Most Powerful Explosive in use. THE SAFETY OF DYNAMITE DUEING TBANSPOBT 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 BustaiD any ' " amount of shock without exploding. They have also been placed upon an open lire, when the dynamite burned slowly away without ex- ' plodinjf.—Parliamentary report—Blue Uoolt, I has been in a railway collision ' and thoueb the van and boxes containing it were broken, no explosion took place.—Blue < "Rnnlr naee 182, par. 2979 ? MajoPXjendie s E.A., EM'S. Inspector of Annnowder and Dynamite Factories, states, in Srevidence aS«ge yiß,. par. 100) that the law relating to dyaamite is as much too stringent L th. gunpowder law is too lax; and (page 20, par. 115) that the time has come for relining safe nitro-glycenne pnpmtani> from .uch unnecessary restrictions as the Nitroglycerine Act imposes upon them 8 Professor Abel, the Chemist to Her Majesty's War Department, gives his «P«»"» that Nobel's dynamite is one of the fafest, most powerful, and most convenient explosive agents applicable to industrial purposes.— Blue Book, pages 56, 57. and 59. ' * Agents: JE. PORTER & CO., . QUEEN STBEET, AUCKLAND.