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During the year there have been but few complaints about had fuse; but I find that there are inferior Fuses, 
fuses still sold, which to all appearances so closely resemble those made by well-known makers, that, except 
to an expert, it is impossible to distinguish between them, and it would be well if manufacturers were 
required to adopt some easily recognised trade mark or brand. 
I have the honour to bo, Sir, 
Your obedient servant, 
J. COSMO NEWBERY, 
Inspector of Explosives. 
The following is a List of Licensed Manufacturers of Explosives , viz .:— 
Name of Licensee. 
Fritz Koenemann ... ... 
H. S. Chittenden 
J. T. Arblaster 
The Australian Lithofracteur Company, 
Kreb’s Patent, Limited 
The Bendigo Safety Blasting Powder 
Company 
Perry, Hunter, and Co. 
M. Cock. T. Featonby, and others 
John Lohmann 
Situation of Factory. 
Explosives Manufactured. 
Black Hill, Ballarat East 
Stawell 
Job’s Gully, Eagleliawk 
Kororoit Creek, Bray brook 
Long Gully, Sandhurst 
Blasting powder. 
The Champion safety powder. 
No. 1. Granulated compound powder. 
No. 2. Compressed powder in pellets. 
No. 3. Fine powder. 
Guncotton ; lithofracteur (three varieties) ; 
and dynamite. 
Safety blasting powder (two varieties). 
Wattle-street, Sandhurst 
Spec Gully, Marong Shire 
Back Creek, Parish of Stratli- 
fieldsaye 
Safety fuse. 
Blasting powder. 
Safety blasting powder. 
APPENDIX Gr. 
COPY OF PLACARD ORDERED TO BE POSTED UP AT MINES IN VICTORIA. 
Nitro- Glycerine Compounds. 
As the use of intro-glycerine compounds (lithofracteur, dynamite, &c.) by persons who are 
unacquainted with their special properties still continues to be a frequent cause of accident, the Inspector 
of Explosives (J. Cosmo Newbory, C.M.G.) has, at the request of this department, framed some further 
suggestions for the guidance of those who employ these compounds in mining pursuits. These suggestions 
have been embodied with those dated the 28rd December, 1879, and are now published for general 
information. 
C. W. LANGrTREE, Acting Secretary for Mines and Water Supply. 
Department of Mines, Melbourne, 1st November, 1884. 
1. In mines these explosives should be kept in a metal box with a hinged cover. Dynamite must 
never be placed in water to soften or thaw it. 
2. Frozen cartridges may be softened without danger by placing the explosives in a water-tight 
vessel, and then by placing that vessel in warm water. 
3. Frozen cartridges should not he placed on any metal, stone, or brickwork, directly heated by fire, 
hot air, or steam pipes. 
4. Frozen cartridges should not he placed in bore-holes, as they cannot ho exploded by ordinary 
detonators. 
f>. It is highly dangerous to strike a thawing or partly frozen cartridge. 
0. Packages containing cartridges must he kept dry. 
7. Packages showing any exterior water damage should he carefully examined to see if any nitro¬ 
glycerine has exuded from the Cartridges. If any nitro-glycerine has exuded into the folds of the cartridge 
wrapper, a light blow may cause an explosion. 
8. Damaged packages must not be roughly handled or struck with any metal or hard substance. 
9. Any nitro-glycerine which has exuded from cartridges should be absorbed by some soft dry 
substance, such as infusorial earth, sawdust, or blotting paper. 
10. Waste material containing nitro-glycerine and fragments of cartridges must not be thrown into 
water; they should he destroyed by firing with a detonator, or by mixing them with an excess of sulphate 
of iron (copperas), or they should be burnt in small quantities at a time in an open fire. 
11. in burning the waste, care should he taken not to inhale the fumes. The fume or vapour of 
nitro-glycerine is more poisonous than the substance itself. 
12. Bore-holes in wet ground should ho fired immediately after they have been charged, as the nitro¬ 
glycerine may flow into cracks leading into fresh ground, or, if the hole be bored upwards, the nitro¬ 
glycerine may flow out. 
13. In wet ground a hole must not he put in below a missed shot. 
14. Missed shots must not he bored out. 
15. Powder must not be charged on top of dynamite or lithofracteur. 
