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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3058, 3 December 1878, Page 1

' \ Business Notices * WI LX.I A M BOBBETT, 1 ' BTJTrSEB; (IATJ DOBNWBtt's), 'ROLLEBTON-BTREET, KARAKA, - Opkjmtb th» Enoli«h' Ohuboh, ; .^POLLEN STREET, SHORTLAND. P&r*mk Park < and Beef of the >very best Jr-,j: ■ „ i quality. BBST QTJALITY~ONLZ 'xstT. 486

J. COCKS' 018 ESTABLISHED ..^WAREHOUSE* MARY STREET , (Opposieb St. Geqbcke's Chttboh). ol LW A V,« ON ,H AN D j JX. % .. A Large Supplj of j FURNITURE—New and Second-' band MATTRESSES . , i CROCKERY ' .','., IRONMONGERY „...,.. , BRUSHWARE MATTINGS.^_ BTBBY DESCRIPTION OF HOUSE- . , HOLD REQUISITE At Prices to' suit the Times. ' ' *' -Goods on Hire.— Soirees Supplied' with' ittpf Requisite, "

. AMERICAN CHAIRS. TJLRGELOT, JUST RECEIVED^ "And will be SOLD CHEA& j V. KIESANO^SKI, !,• '. ■' Tiiioi, , , - " (Nsx* Bkroftio Homx,) !, ; POLLEN* «TREgT, SHOKTLANDi j (<&>£&• KINDS OF WORK executed on' vAjirr ,-." - - —-J't tt»'sliorfcist nottoe, on the moib>reaßOnable { f '" ' '.v- . '-.■"«] , . -: > ill . ■ 1 IMPERIAL ' INSURANCE; COMPANY , , Uf . ofSloji^on. - ■■•:•- , "Ajf, S\JBSOKI»BD AND INVESTED ' £1J950,0i00. -'

'f 'tirTILLIAM McCULLOUGH, BTBINING STAR OFFICE, '' Gbahambtowk, Hat been appointed Agent at the Thames above well-known and old-established Company, and is prepared to do business on the'most favourable terms. W. H. Abustboko, %Z Agent.

y\ T N. A M I T B. tjwsT Abbivbd, per Queeit o* thk West, from London— TEN TONS DYNAMITE, DETONATORS, BATTERY, INSULATED COPPER WIRE, Etc., Etc., Etc. DYNAMITE is the Safest and Moat Powerful Explosive in use. THE SAFETY OF DYNAMITE DURING • TRANSPORT AND STORAGE. Extracts from the Official evidence given before . t! the !Houstf of Commons Select Committee ''"■ on Explosive Substances—Parliamentary ■ v Session of 1874, liOndoo. ! Boxes filled with dynamite have been thrown fom a great height,' and found to sustaitrany amountof shock ■ without exploding. Thejr hate slwlieen placed upon an open fire, when the dynamite burned,slowly away wtnout exploding—Parliamentary report—Blue Book, page 179» . „ „. . Dynamite, has been in a railway collision and though the van and boxes containing it were broken, no explosion took place.—Blue Gunpowder and Dynamite Factories, states, in ifis evidence (page 18, par. 100,, that the law •relating to dynamite is as much too stringent Sthe gunpowder law is too lax; and (page '20 pan 115) that the time has come for relieving'safe nitro-glycerine preparations, from «aoh unneceisary. restrictions as the Nitro•lwerine Act-imposes upon them. * pXsor Abel, the Chemist to Her Maieatv'. War Department, gJTes hu experience th»t Nobel's dynamite is one of the ■•feat, ta«t powerful, and most convenient explosive fg?nf P applicable to industrial purpose..^ 3EBm Book, pages 56^57. and 59. Agents: E P O E T E B & co" , QUEEN STBBET, AUOKLAND.^^