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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2930, 6 July 1878, Page 4

Doctors' Charges.—Their patients.-r- ---' Punch. „ ■' Modern Degeneracy.—The other night an old West Hiller got up and went to a certain closet to feel for a certain bottle, but in the darkness he got hold of a flask containing kerosene oil, and after taking a healthy old gult of the same, went to bed. .He didn't rest very well, spat a good deal, and finally said, they coudn't make the same whisky now that they did 40 years ago.—Burlington Hawkeye, Mb Wm. McOexi-ottGH having been appointed agent on the Thames for the Imperial Fire Insurance Company, is prepared to take risks at the lowest rates. The Imperial Com pany was established in 1803, and has a capital of £1,600,000, with itß*%head office at No.-l, Old Broad Btreet, London. The Mcl bourne directory has upon it some of the most influential men in that city, and the name the Company has. gained for itself by its prompt and liberal settlement of claims, while charging moderate rates, bus secured a large amount of business not only in Australian Colonies, but in all parts of the world in which agencies have been established.—Auvx.