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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2776, 7 January 1878, Page 2

An iLtusTBATiON.—" What would be your notion of absent-mindedness ? " asked Kufus Choate of a witness whom he was cross-examining, •• Well," said the witness, " I would say that a man who thought he'd left his watch at home, and took it out of his pocket to sec if he had time to go home and get it, was absent-minded."

Mb Wm. McOPMOUGn baring been appointed agent on the Thames for ihe Imperial Fire Insurance Company, is prepared to take risks at the lowest rates. The Imperial Coin* pan; was cjtub!ished in 1803, and has a capital of £1,600,000, with its head office at JSo. 1, Old .Broad street, London. The Mcl bourne directory bas upon it some of the most influential men in that city, and the name the Computij has gained for itself by its prompt and liberal settlement of claims, while charg ing moderate rates, bas secured a large amount; of bueiuess uot only in Australian Colonies, but iv ail parts of tbo world in which agencies bare baen established.—Adtt.