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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5649, 24 December 1879, Page 5

The following appear* in the Aluhern lαdependent (Otagn) of the 12th iust:—"Mr. McMurdo, agent for tho Mutual Life Assurance Company of Australasia, in company with Dr. Jaluiis, the medical oilier of tho company, has been doing this district lately. Judging from the 'lives' he lios 'taken, , I should think he must be. a most bkodtliirsty individual. But perhips that is only a technical figure of speech common am"i>gst iuburauci agents. I buliovo lie has done a good business at Springfield, and in this district generally. If he haa nor, all I can say i- , , 'he deaerves to have.' For persuasive eloquence in this particular line, I think it ■would take George Thnrno ami 'Smiling Tommy' all their tune to ' wipo him out.' I know if I had hail more than a thousand on the credit side of my banking account, he would have got my proposal for two or three thousand 'at fifty,' but unfortunately it takes me all my time to find a spare tliil.ing to go a ' bob in.'" The following visitors were st:iyiii;» at the Hot Springs Hotel, Waiwera, oa December 21 : —Mr. and Mrs. Chambers, Xapicr ; Mr. and Mrs A. Hill, Sydney: Mr. Meale, Mr. Day, Nelson ; Mr. and Mrs. 11. F. Gray, Misses M. and M. F. Gray, Master F. W. and 11. J. AV. Gray, Christchurch; Mrs. L'jwis, Mr. E. A. .Smith, Mr. Fairburn, Mrs. Chapman, Auckland ; Mr. Carter, "Waikato. The importance of procuring a durable and good time-keeper 13 a msittcr of great concern to everyone about to purchase a watch. Such evidently can be best obtained where you have the advantage of great practical experience in the manufacture and theory of watch-work, instead of trusting only to the printed guarantee from the manufacturers, which formality is done as an advertisement, and to help dealers in watches to make a sale. Watches of every description, at the lowest prices, examined and guaranteed by A. G. Bautlett, Queen-street, opposite tbo Theatre Uoyal, formerly with Brockbank and Atkins, Cornhill, London.— I [Advt.]