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Evening Star, Issue 3556, 16 July 1874, Page 1 (Supplement)

Conversation lollies are the latest advertising medium. (Some recently issued at Auckland bear the startling question, ** Do you use Williams’s fire kindler* ?” A bon mot is credited to the Victorian Agent-General (the Hon. Mr Michie). A man in business in Melbourne, interested in bringing into notice a particular brand of preserved meat, wrote to the representative of Victoria with a sample case ot the article, and requested Mr Michie to have the meats sent to the British Naval Department for comparison with other preserved products. Mr Alichie’s reply, after reciting in the stereotyped official manner the substance of the letter he was acknowledging, went on to sa y : —“I Q reply. I regret that, inasmuch as I am only the ‘ Ageut-general ’ and not a ‘ general agent ’ for the Celony, 1 am unable to comply &q.”