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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3090, 13 January 1879, Page 1

Business Notices WI LLI AM BOBBETT, BUTCHER (IJITB DpßNWilx's), ROLLEBTON-STREET, KARAKA, Opposits th« English Chttboh, 1 » AND POLLEN STREET, SHORTLAND. Con«d Pork and Beef of the very best quality. BEST QUALITY ONLY KEPT. 466 W.G. DENNES, IMPORTER OF EVERY description of DOMESTIC and MANUFACTURING Sewing Machines to be had at the Thames Branch, Pollen irtreet, at Auckland Prices on Weekly or Monthly Payments. Liberal Discount for Cash. Questions to le considered in Buying a SEWING MACEINEiWhere can I see the LARGEST ASSORTMENT to select from ? Where can I see SAMPLES of every variety of WORK the different kinds of Where can I have a MONTH'S FREE TRIAL to test whether Hike 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 FREE OF CHARGE? All these advantages are offered by W. C. SXRNBS: ' , . p 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 sendiDg on a Post Card the kind of Machine she would like, addressed — Manager, W. 0. DBHKeS, Pollen street, Thames. Now in stock at the. Branch Depdt— Wheeler and Wilson's new Straight Needle and old style Bow Needle, Wertheim Treadle (Hands to arrive), Princess of Wales, Dolly V«dens, Europa, and in addition Royal Washing Machines, Wringers, Fret Baws. Needles for all Machines Two Shilling per dozen. GREAT CENTRAL DEPOT, Qttken Stbbbt Auckland. 2785

IMPERIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON. BUB SCRIBED AND INVESTED CAPITAL £1,950,000. TTTILLIAM McCULLOUGH, J BTfKINO STAR OFFICE, GBAHAHBTOWir, Hal been »pp«inted Agent at the Thames or aWte well-known and old-established Company, and is prepared to do business on the most favourable terms. W. H. AbmstboKQ, 52 Agent. DYNAMITE. Jubt AfflttVED, per Qtnnw op thb Wbbt, from. London— TEN TONS DYNAMITE, DETONATORS, BATTERY, INSULATED COPPER WIRE, Etc., Etc., Etc. ■ ' ■ '■» D"SbfAMITE is the Safest and Most Powerful Explosive in use. ,; THE SAFETY OF DYNAMITE DURING TRANSPORT AND STORAGE. Extracts from tbe.Official evidence given before -". the House of Commons Sebet Committee on Explosive Substances— Parliamentary Session of 1874, London. Boxes filled with dynamite have been thrown 'from a great height, and found to sustwn any amount of shock without exploding. They. have also been placed W""*"**^. the dynamite burned slowly away Jf£«*g«-. ploding.— Parliamentary report-Blue Boo*, PaCtmite has been in a railway collision relating to dynamite is as much too stringent as the gunpowder law is too lax; and (page 20, par? 115) that the time has come for relining safe nitro-glycerine P^-g^Jg 1 TOoh unnecessary restrictions as the Nitroglycerine Act imposes upon them Professor Abel, the Ohemut to Her MaiJ/sWar Department, gives hi. experience that Nobel's dynamite is one of the safest moat powerful/and mostconvemen; exposive agents applicable to industrial purposes.Blaeßook, pages 56^ and 59. Agents : E. PORTER & CO., QUEEN STREET, AUCKLAND. CUSTOMS FORMS.—Wanted Known, on OinCWARDS COASTWISE FORMS,