COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume X, Issue 3010, 10 December 1879, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Messrs, B.Tonka & Co, offered for salo the leases of a number of eheds to:day. by order of the Auckland Harbour Board. The following •flj?nres were realised:—A. £23 per inontl), purchaser Mr Beoi-sley; B£l7 per month, Messrs. Cruickshiink & Co., C.£355., CaptainNearlng, D. «3,' Kaipara Steam Shipping Company, E. £115s, Criiickananfcs & Co.; shed for removal by Eilt basin. Si 2s ea.ao. at Dock yard, £l& Jlr'K JO? Greenwood i offered to-dvy at public anetion 17 building allotments, and lietreat cottage situated- at Parnell and Newmarket, the property of Mr Jas* Mnson. The bidding was below- the reserved price, and the propertias were reserved for private sale.

Dynamite.—(From "S.A. Hej?!ster," May 22, 1879.)— Trial o£ Explosives.—Some interesiing experiments with reference to the relative strength of Nohel's patent dynamite and the dynamite and litbofractenr manufactured in Melbourne were made on Wednesday mormnn at Dulwich, near Adelaide, In the presence of Mr John Robb, tho well-known contractor, and representatives o£ both Companies. Five alternate shots of each description of dynamite were fired from a mortar charged with seventy Krainß of explosive, a 201b cannon-ball being used as a projectile, Tho average distance which the bail was thrown by Nobot's patent dynamite was 209 feet per Bhot, ami by the Melbourne dynamite and lithofracteur 181 feet 5 inches. The experiments thus prove that Nobel's Dynamite is rather more than 15 per cent, stronger than tho Melbourne Manufactured, marked Kubs Bros, and Co.'s patent.