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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2985, 9 September 1878, Page 1

Business Notices WI LLI A M BOBBBTT, BUTCHEB (lATI 9OBlTWlKft's)i ROLLEBTON-STREKT, KARAEA, Oppositb . thi English Chtjbch, AND POLLEN STREET, SHOETLAND. Oorsed Pork and Beef of the Very best quality. BEST QUALITY ONLY KEPT. 465 ; -... jl COCKS' OID ESTABHSHKD FUENIBHTNG . WAREHOUSE MARY STREET /(Opposite St. Gesbge's Chitboh). 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 CBAIRS. T ARGE LOT, JUST RECEIVED, And will be SOLD CHEAP. V. KIESANOWSKI, TAILOR, . (Next Behdioo Hotei,) POLLEN STREET, SHORTLAND. A LL KINDS OF WORK executed on the shortest notice, on the most reasonable terme. ' 1447 IMPERIAL INSURAKCE COMPANY OF LONDON. ÜBSCRIBED AND INVESTED CAPITAL £1,950,000. TTTILLIAM McCULLOUGH, E,VBNING; STAR OFFICE, Gba^amsxo"vwt, Hal been appointed .Agent at the Thames for- aboye well-known and old-established Company, and is prepared to do business on tho mo«t favourable terms. W. H. ABMSTBONtf, 32 Ag°nt* V N I M I T E. Just Abbived, per Queen of the West, ■ ' from London— TEN TONS DYNAMITE, DETONATOBS, BATTERY, INSULATED COPPER WIRE, Etc., Etc., Etc. DYNAMITE is the Safest and Most Power- \ ful Explosive in use; THE SAWTY 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 atly amount of shock' without exploding. They have also been placed upon an open fire, when STdynamite burned slowly away without ex-plodinX.-ParliamentaryK .-Parliamentary report-Blue Book, PaDylatite has been in a railway collision and, though the van and boxes containing it were broken, no explosion took place.-Blue 20, parf 115) that the time has come for relieving safenitro-glycerine prepa«l««i. from • such unnecessary restrictions as the Nitroelycerine Act imposes upon them. Professor-Abel,. the Chemist to Her. MaBlue Book, pages 66^67. and 59; Agents j . E PORTER & CO., QUEEN STREET, AUOKLAND.^^