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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3074, 21 December 1878, Page 1

Business Notices WI LLI A M BOBBETT, BUTCHER (IATB DOBNWKLI's), BOLLESTON-STREET, KARAKA, OPPOSIM TH* ENSIIBH ChUBCH, AND POLLEN STREET^ SHORTLAND. ©orawi Pork and Beef of the very best quality. BEST QUALITY ONLY KEPT. 465 W. C. DENNES, IMPORTER OP "OVERT description of DOMESTIC and -^ MANUFACTURINGSewing Machines to be had at the Thames Branch, Pollen street, at Auckland Priceg oh Weekly or Monthly Payments. Liberal Discount for Cash. Question* to he considered in Buying a SETTING MACHINE:— Where can I see the LARGEST ASSORT' MENT to select from ? Where can I see SAMPLES of every Tariety of WORK the different kinds of MACHINESDO? Where car I have a MONTH'S FREE ' TRIAL to test whether I like the Machine ? Where'can I b» TAUGHT how to Ao all the different kinds of work the Machine is guaranteed to perform FREE of CHARGE ? ' Where can I buy a Machine that shall be kept in repair for a TWELVEMONTH FREE OF'CHARGE? AH these advantages are offered by W. C. Dxiranrß: Any Lady wbo cannot get out to view the • Machines can have one rent her free of charge for trial, and a lesson at her house, by sending on a Post Card, the kind of Machine she would like, addressed — Manager, W." O. DBNNeB, Pollen street, Thames. Now in stock at the Branch DepotWheeler- and Wilson's new Straight Needle and old style Bow Needle, Wertheim Treadle (Hands to arrive), Princess of Wa'es, Dolly Vardens, .Eurppa, ..and in. addition Royal Washing Maohines, Wringers, Fret Saws. Needles for all Machines Two Shilling per dozen. GREAT CENTRAL DEPOT, Qubih Stbebt Auckland. .^ 2785 IMPERIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON. SUBSCRIBED AND INVESTED CAPITAL £1,960,000. TTTILLIAM McCULLOUGH, EVENING STAB OFFICE, GBAHAMBWmir, Hat been appointed Agent at the Thames or abovd well-known and oU-establish«d Company, and it prepared to do business, on the m«stfavourable terms. W. H. ABkalßoirff, »2 •' '' r ."■■■ V •■■ ./' A 8* n*V .'; TV yZ N -A. M ■r-X^E;. Jtrsi AxaiTßD, per Qjnnss 'or thb Wbst, from, London — TEN TONS DYNAMITE, DETONATORS, BATTERY, INSULATED COPPER WIRE, Etc., Eyo;, Etc. DYNAMITE is the Safest and Most Powerful Explosive in use. THE SAFETY OF DYNAMITE DURING TRANSPORT AND STORAGE. Extracts f*>m 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, has been in a railway collision and thoagh the van and boxes containing it were broken, no explosion took place.—Blue BM^o?SajendirB 2A! 9H.M'S. Inspector of Gunpowder and Dynamite Factories, states, in KXnce (page Vp"' 100), that the law relating to dynamite is as much too stringent Is £ gunpowder law is too lax; and (page SO nar 115) that the time has come for relining safe nitroglycerine preparations^from such unnecessary restrictions as the Nitrodvcerine Act imposes upon them. __;= g Profefscr Abel, the Chemist to HerMaiestv's War Department, gives his experience ihat Nobel's dynamite is one of the safest, most powerful, and most convenient explosive agents applicable to industrial purpose..Blae Book, pages 66, 57. and 59. AaßN's: „„ E P O R T E R & oO.i QUEEN .STREET, AUCKLAND.^ CUSTOMS FORMS.—Wanted Known, on SALE at the ErwnNa Stab Ovnoa,. AlbertTeet, totom*^£g*g>* and OUXWABDB COASTWISB.FORMS.