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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2804, 8 February 1878, Page 2

Mb Wk. McCullotoh having been appointed agent on the Tbmmn for the Imperial Fire Insurance Company, v prepared to take riakt at the loweit rates. The Imperial Com* pany was ealablitbed in 1803, and his a. capital of £1,600,000, with its bead office at No. 1, Old Broad atree:, London. The Melbourne directory has upon it tome of the most influential men in that city, and the name the Company has gaiqrd for itself by its prompt and liberal ■etllement of claims, while charging moderate rates, hat secured a large amount of busmen not only in Australian Colonies, but in all parti of the world iv which agencies bare been •lUblished,—AaTT. A law of the Nez Perces is that a widower shall not marry within a year after the death of his wife. But polygamy is allowed and when a sick man thinks bis sick wife is about to die he marries another woman, and so escapes the weary year of watting.