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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3078, 28 December 1878, Page 1

Business Notices WI ILIAM BOBBBTT BUTCHER /LATI DOBNWHt's), BOLLESTON-ITREET, KABAKA, . Optosim tot Enomsh Chubov, AFD POLLEN BTRIET, SHORTLAND. Corned Pork and Beef of the very bei qjwlity. BEST QUALITY ONLY KEPT. 46 *- * W. 0. DENNES, IMPORTER OP EVERY description of DOMESTIC ant MANUFACTURING Sewing Machines to be had at the Thames Branch, Pollez •treet, at Anekland Prices on Weekly 01 •Monthly Payments., Liberal Discount foi Casb. , Questions to be considered in Buying a SEWING MACHINEi— Where can I see tie LARGEST ASSORTMENT to select fron ? Where can I se« . SAMPLES of every variety of WORE the different kinds of Where can I have a MONTH'S FREE TRIAL to test whether Hike the Machine P Where can I be TAUGHT how to do all the different kinds of work the Machine is guaranteed to perform FREE of CHARGE P Where can I buy a Machine that shall be kept in repair for a TWELVEMONTH FREE OF CHARGE? All these advantages are offered by W. 0. Dunn: . Any Lady who cannot get oat to view the Machines can hare one sent her free of charge for trial, and a leston at her house, by sending on a Post Card the kind of Machine she would like, addressed — Manager, W. 0. DnnreS, Pollen street, Thames. Now in stock at the Branch Dep&t— Wheeler and Wilson's new Straight Needle and old style Bow Needle, Wertheim Treadle (Hands to.arrive), Princess of Wales, Dolly Vardens, Europa, and in addition Royal Washing Machines, Wringers, Fret Baws. Needles for all Machines Two Shilling per dozen/" GREAT CENTRAL DEPOT, . sQttbbn Stbebt Auckland. 2785 IMPERIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON. SUBSCRIBED AND INVESTED CAPITAL £1,950,000. TI7ILLIAM McCULLOUGrH, BTJBKINCr STAR OJFIOB, Gbahakbtowk, Has been appointed Agent at the Thames or above well-known and old-established Company, and is prepared te do business on fiie most favourable terms. W. H. Amstboitg, T) T N t-J 1 I T E< Jvm Abmvbd, per Qveih or <na Wist, ; from London — TEN TONS DYNAMITE, DETONATORS, BATTERY, INSULATED WIRE, Etc., Etc., Eto. DYNAMITE is the Safest and Most Powerful Explosive in use. THE SAFETY OF DYNAMITE DURING .TRANSPORT AND STORAGE. fJCxtracts from the Official evidence given before " the House of Commons Belect Committee on Explosive Substances— Parliamentary - Session of 1874, London. » • Bexes filled with dynamite havebeen 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*Dvi>amite has been in a railway collision «nd, tboHgb. the van and boxes containing it ■were broken, no explosion took plaoe.—Blue Book natt 188, par. 29M ?3BffißM»»& R.A., H.MS. Inspector of Gunpowder and Dynamite Factories, states, in his evidence (page 18, par. 100), that the law relating to flyaamite is as much too stringent as the gnnpowder law is too lax } and (page 20 pan 115) that the- time has come for reHiving safe nitro-glycerine preparations_from ■uch unnecessary restrictions as the HiiroBlveeruje Act imposes upon them. _ _ *'¥ro«ssbr AbelTthe Chemist to Her Maiestv's War Department j gives his experience that label's dynamite is one of the safest, mß st powerful, and most convenient explosive Agents .pplicable to industrial purposes— Blue Book, pages 56^ and 59. Aobnts: E P 0 R T E R & CO., QUBEN STREET, AUCKLAND^