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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2561, 22 March 1877, Page 2

building. A doer has'been made in the side of the tank and a padlock is attached, which makes the contents, in the shape of account books, &c, as safe against thieves as they would be in the office. Of course the only object of the safe is to provide a security against.fire, and considering thei many difficulties which havp- arisen^ in Blenheim'owing.-to ledgers, day books, et hoc genus omney f having suffered so' much from the devoji'ring element, -we Can re-conunend-the'idea as a good one.- The cost was trifling, the total amount being about £5.

The following item of Victorian gossip is from tile amusing lefitera of " Atticus " in the Leader:—The ladies of Melbourne have at last started a club. The married members, of whom a certain are admitted for the sake of playing propriety, are called ■ cats, While.^tne unmarried are known to each other by the names of ! kitten §. Gentlemen are : rigorously excluded from membership, but periodically a chosen few, who must be passed unanimously by both' cats and kittens, and who, it is to be presumed, must be therefore both eligible and nice, are given the right of entree. The favored youths pass by the name of pugs, and are privileged to wear the badge of membership—a silver ring. At all balls and gatherings, when the youth of both sexes meet fpr the purpose of dancing, it is incumbent oil the pugs that they shall not engage themselves to dance with strange ladies till the programmes of the cats and kittens are full. Neither shall any cat or kitten decline to engage herself'to -any pug for any dance that she has not promised. *Thesei I am informed, are the leading principles of the Club, the name of which is appropriately ' enough the Kit • cat Club. ' " ' Wanted Everybody to Kndw that _all kinds of- Watches arid .Clocks 'can :oe repaired at J. T. Clabke's, Pollen, street (corner of Marjrjitreet). t N.B.ißalance Staffs, Cylinders, and Pinions worked in for the Trade.- * English Hunting Levers, £8 10s.—Adyt. - - W.;FiNLAY, one of the earliest "eifcablishe'd "Watch and Clock Makers on the Thames, WISHES IT KNOWN that he has again commenced business in Williamson street ', in connection with the Manufacturing Jewellery .Business of his brother, Mr Janes Finlay, and,.is prepared to .undertake all branches ,of the Watch and Clock-making business. Repairs executed with promptness.' Charges moderate.-r[ADVT.] -