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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3077, 27 December 1878, Page 1

Business Notices Xtt I LLI A M BOBBETT VV BUTCHEB fIATI BOBNWELL's), ROLLESTON-BTREET, KARAKA, Opposite thi English Chtjboh, AND POLLEN STREET, SHORTLAND. Ooraed Fork and Beef of the very bee quality. BEST QUALITY ONLY KEPT. 461 t W. O: DENNES, IMPOETEB OF r . EVERT description of DOMESTIC and MANUFACTURING Sewing Machines to be had at the Thames Branch, Pollen street, at* Auckland Prices on Weekly or Monthly Payments. Liberal Discount for Cash. ■ Questions to le considered in Buying a SEWING MACHINE:— "Where can I we the LARGEST ASSORTMENT to select from P^ . „ Where can I see SAMPLES of every variety of WORK the different ■kinds of MWnlre can I have'a MONTH'S FREE SERIAL to test whether Hike the Machine? Where can I br TAUGHT hoir to do all the different kinds of work the Machine is: maranteed to perform FREE of CHARGE ? - Where «an I buy a Machine tbnt shall be kept in repair for a TWELVEMONTH FREE OF CHARGE P All these, advantages are offered by W. O. Dwnnre: ".",. ........ ■: „ ■ ' Any Lady who cannot get out to view the Machines can have one seat 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 — ,Maoager, W. 0. DBXKeS, Pollen street,: Thames. Now in stock at the Branch DepotWheeler and Wilson's new Straight Needle and old style Bow Needle, Wertheim Treadle (Bands to arrive), Princess of Wa'es, Dolly Vardens, Europa, and in addition Royal Washing Machines, Wringers, Fret Saws. . ct . Needles for all Machines Two Shilling per "~ down. GEEAT CENTEAL DEPOT, Queen Stbbbt Auckland. . 2786 IMPERIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON. SUBSCRIBED AND INVESTED CAPITAL £1,960,000. TT7ILLIAM McCTJLLOUGH, EVENING STAR OFFIOB, GBAKAVSTOmr, Has been appointed Agent at the Thames or atove well-known and old-established Company, and is prepared te do business on the most favourable terms. . ' W. H. ABJCBIBOKft, Agent. » .TTvTNAMITE. JrsT Abbivbi), per Qtjebk ot the Wb«t, from London— TEN 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 ,^C on Explosive Substances—Parliamentary I^J, Session of 1874, London. t Boxes filled with dynamite have been thrown from a great height, and found to sustain any amount of shock without exploding. They have also beenplaced upon an open fire, when the dynamite burned slowly away without explodinK.— Parliamentary report—Blue Book, P*Dynainite has been ins,railway cbllisioa and, though the van and boxes containing it were broken, no explosion took place.—Blue Book, cage 182, par. 2979 MaiorM»jendie, R.A, HM'S.lnspector of Gunpowder and Dynamite Factories, states, in In. evidence (page 18, par. 100), that the law Minting to dynamite is as munh too stringent ° th 9 gunpowder law is too lax; and (page 20 oar? 116) that the time has come for relievitig safe nitro-glycerine preparations from ■uoh unnecessary restrictions as the Nitrofflvcerine Act imposes upon them. r, g¥rofcssor Abel, the Chemist to Her Mai«Btv'a War Department, gives fan experience that Nobel's dynamite is one of the safest, m«fc nowerful, and most convenient explosive Sent? -PPl^6^^^ pUrpoßeßr" Blue Book, pages 6fi, 57. and 59. Agknts: r P O E T E B & CO., QUEEN STREET, AUCKLAND.^ /CUSTOMS FORMS.-Wantod Known, on C SALEattheEvBjnKa^OTOOB, AiK«t.«tr«wt Grahamstown, INWAREB and PUTWABDS TOOASTWISB FOBm