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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3084, 6 January 1879, Page 1

Business Notices WILLIAM BOBBBTT, BUTCHER (LATI DOBNWBLI's), AOLLISTON-STREET, KARAXA, . Opposite thi English Ohttboh, , AND POLLEN STREET, SHORTLAND. Oomed Fork and Beef of the very best i quality. BEST QUALITY ONLY KEPT. 486 W. G. DENNES, ; IMPORTER OF EVERY aeicription of DOMESTIC and „; ;M^upApTUßiNG:;:.:' ' '■ 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 see the LARGEST ASSORTMENT to select from ? Where can I see SAMPLES of every Tarjety of WORK the different kinds of Where can I have a MONTH'S FREE TRIAL to test whether I like the Machine ? Where can I b« TAUGHT how to do 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 ffBEE OF CHARGE P All these advantages are offered by W. C. Dennis: . , Any Lady who cannot get out to view tne Maohines 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 — Manager, W. C. DENNeS, Pollen street, Thames. Now in stock at the Branch Depot— Wheeler and Wilson's new Straight Needle »hd old style Bow Needle, Wertheim Treadle {Hands to arrive), Princess of Wales, Dolly Vardenß, Europa, and in addition Royal Washing Machines, Wringers, Fret Saws. , Needles for all Maohines Two Shilling per dozen. GREAT CENTRAL DEPOT, Queen Stbeet Auckland. . •? . ' 2785, IMPERIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON. SUBSCRIBED AND INVESTED CAPITAL £1,950,000. 1 McCULLOTJGH, EVENING STAE OFFICE, Gbahamstown, Has been appointed Agent at the Thames or above well-known and old-established "Company, arid is prepared to do business on the most favourable terms. W. H. Abmstbong, M Agent. -r\ y N A M I T E. Jitst Abbived, per Queen of the West, ' from London — TEN TONS DYNAMITE, DETONATORS, BATTERY, INSULATED COPPER WIRE, Etc., Etc., Etc. DYNAMITE is the Safest and Most Powerful Explosive in use. TtfffSAFETY OF DYNAMITE DURING 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 any amount of shock without exploding. They have also been placed upon an open fire, when the dynamite burned slowly away *»*«*«• plodinjf.— Parliamentary report—Blue Book, P*Dynamite has been in a railway collision and, though the van and boxes containing it were broken, no explosion took place.—Blue BtsS.^BtVs.I M p. r of relating to dynamite is as mu«h too stringent as the gunpowder law is too lax; and (page 20, par? 115) that the time has come for reliering safe nitro-glycerine P^P™*™ 8*0!" such unnecessary restrictions as the Nitro^ glycerine Act imposes upon them Professor Abel, the Chemist to Her Majesty's War Department, gives hi. «penence that Nobel's dynamite is one of the safest most powerful, arid most convenient explore agents applicable to industrial purposes.— Blue Book, pages 56, 57. and 59. Agents : E. PORTER & COQUEEN STREET, AUCKLAND.^