Page 2 Advertisements Column 3

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2968, 20 August 1878, Page 2

A Sign of the Times.— Aunt Towzer says everybody has gone mad with this war spirit. Even her doctor told her to look after her regiment.— Funny Folks. An expression frequently hoard in the shop of Mr Wii.kfs, Watchmaker and Jeweller, of Shortland, is ; Sir, you have so great a eel«c« tion of Eurrings aod Brooches that I do not know which to choose. 'The same might truthfully be said of his fine stock of Watches and Clocks. Therefore irake as inspection. All articles marked in plain figures. Watches, Clocks nnd Jewellery repaired by Sir J. Wilkes, and Guaranteed.—[Advt.] *" Mn Wit. McCctixouchi having been ap. . pointed agent on the Thames for the Imperial Fire Insurance Company, is prepared to take risks at tlie lowest rales. The Imperial Company was established in 1803, and has a capital of £1,000,000, with its head offioe at No. 1, Old Broad street, London. The Melbourne directory-bus upon it some of the roost influential men in I hat city, ;md t^e name the Company bus gained" for itself by its prompt and liberal sett leiuout of claims, while charging moderate rates, baa secured ii largo amount of business not only in A iialraliuu Colonies,. but in all parts of the world in wliiob ageuoieg nave been established.—Ai>vx.