Page 1 Advertisements Column 1

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3095, 18 January 1879, Page 1

Business Notices WI LLI A M 808 BET T, BTTTCHBE (IATB DORNWBI.I'B), ROLLESTON-BTREET, KARAKA, OpppeiTß . thb En^iish Chtjboh, PO^EN; STREET, : SHOETLAND. Corned Pork and , JBeef of the very best quality. BEST QUALITY ONLY KEPT. 485 WC DENNES, IMPOETEB OF EVERY description of DOMESTIC and r r MANUFACTURING Sewing Machines to be had at the Thames Branch, Pollen street, at' Auckland Prices on Weekly or: Monthly Payments. Liberal Discount fpr| Cash. :.-,,- ; . , ■,'■■' Questions to he considered in, Buying a SEWING MACHINE:— Where can I see the LARGEST ASSORTMENT to select from ? Where can I see SAMPLES of every rariety of WORK the different kinds of MACHINES DO? • ; Where can I have a MONTH'S FREE TRIAL to test whether I like the Machine ? Where can I bo 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 ? AH these advantages are offered by W. C. DmRKES: Any Lady who cannot get out to view the Machines can bare one seather free of charge for trial, and a lesson at her house, by Bending on a Post Card the kind of Machine she would, like, addressed — Manager, W. 0. DEirareS, Pollen street, Thames. .Now in stock at the Branch Dep6t— Wheeler and Wilson's new Straight Needle and old style Bow Needle, Wertheim Treadle (Hands to arrive), Princess of Wales, Dolly Vardenß, Europft, and in addition Royal ■Washing Machines, Wringers, Fret Saws. . Needles for all Machines Two Shilling per dozen. GREAT CENTEAL DEPOT, Qubbn Street Aucbxand. : 2785 IMPERIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON. SU BSCRIBED AND INVESTED CAPITAL £1,950,000. TTTILLIA^ii MoCULLOUGH, E|v¥nlN<> STAR OFFICE, ■ !'■ ■■•-■"•■■' GkAHAMgTOW, Hai boon appointed Agent at the Thames; of aWe well-known and ol«l-e8tablisked Ooinpany, and ii prepared to do busineßß on the most favourable terms. W. H. Abmstbong, 52 Agent. TV V N A M IT E. Jubx Abbived, per Qotb» of the West, from London— TEN TONS DYNAMITE, DETONATORS, BATTERY, INSULATED COPPER WIRE, Etc., Etc., Etc. 'DYto^MITE is the Safest and Most Power- ■■ ■■■ -W- ■■ ' f u i Explosive in use. THE SAFETY OF DYNAMITE DURING TRANSPORT 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 without explodinj?.— Parliamentary report—Blue Book, page 179. . „ .... Dynamite has been in a railway collision and, though the van and boxes containing it j were broken, no explosion took place.—BlueH Book, page 182, par. 2979 ■ ' .. .■ | Major Majendie, R.A., H.MS. Inspecgr of Gunpowder and Dynamite Factories, atatto in hi. evidence (page 18, par. 100), that t&Slaw relating to dynamite is as muoh too stncgent S^ttie gunpowder law is too lax 5 and^ge W nail 6)r ■il 6) that the time has come top*Hevbe safe nitro-glycerine preparations froaa iuchunnece 9 flary restrictions as the NitroBlvcerine Act imposes upon them. Abel, the Chemist to Her Maiesty'e War Department, gives h« experience that Nobel's dynamite is one of the safest mpst powerful, tad most convenient explosive agents applicable to industrial purposes,Blue Book, pages 56, 57. and 59. Agents: E. P 0 E T E S & CO., QPEEN STREET, AUCKLAND.^ CUSTOMS FORMS.—Wanted Known, on (J SALE »t. the ETENiNa Sta» O^ICB, Albert street, Grahumßtown, INWARBB and OUTWARDS COASTWISE FOBMB.