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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3097, 21 January 1879, Page 1

Business Notices WI LLI A M BOBBETT, BUTCHEE fIATB I>ORNWBI.I.'fI), ROLLESTON-STREET, KARAKA, Opposite thb English Chtteoh, ATH> POLLEN STREET, SHORTLAND. WJrswd Pork and Beef of the very best quality. BEST QUALITY ONLST KEPT. 465 W. C. DENNES, IMPOETEE OF EVERY 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 Caen. 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 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 bo TAUGHT hovr 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. DkknbS: . Any Lady who cannot get out to view the Machines can have one sent her free of charge for trial, and a lesson at her houße.by sending on a Post Card the kind of Machine she would like, addressed — Manager, W. C. DBNNeS, 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 Vardens, Europa, and in addition Royal Washing Machines, Wringers, Fret Saws. Needles for all Machines Two Shilling per dozen. , GEE AT CENTEAL DEPOT, Queen Sxeeet Auckland. .. 2785 IMPERIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON. SUBSCRIBED AND INVESTED CAPITAL £1,950,000. TTTILLIAM McCULLOUGH, EVENING STAR OFFICE, Gbahamstowk, Hal been appointed Agent at the Thames or above well-known and old-eßtablißhed Company, and is prepared to do business on the most favourable terms. W. H. Abmstbonq, 92 A Bent* TV V N A M I T E. Jttsi Ahbxvxd, per Qukbn op the Wbst, from London— .{TEN TONS DYNAMITE, DETONATORS, BATTERY, INSULATED COPPER WIRE, Etc., Etc., Etc. DYNAMITE is the Safest and Most Powerful Explosire in use. rv/ p \_ . ■ * 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 groat height,, and found to suetain any amount of shock without exploding. They 1 have also been placed upon an open fire, when the dynamite' burned slowly away without explodinj;.— Parliamentary report—Blue Book, PttDvnamite has been in a railway collision and, thoagh the van and boxes containing it were broken, no explosion took place.-Bluo Gunpowder and Dynamite Vaetonos, states in hi. evidence (page 18, par. 100), that the law relating to dynamite is as mu,.h too stringent "as the gunpowder law is too lax; and (page Sfl nar 115) that the time has como for reiieving 'safe nitroglycerine preparations.from iuoh unnecessary restrict™, as the NitroIt 2S fuUnd ma,t convenient explosive Blue Book, pages 56,J7^and &J. Agents: E P O E T E E ' & CO., QUEEN STRKET, AUCKLAND^ CUSTOMS FORM3.-W>inted Known, on C SALE at t,he I™**™°™". I^^