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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIX, Issue XXI, 13 November 1897, Page 651

“Cantab" writes to the ‘Westminster Gazette':—‘lt has never been stated yet how and when Mr Spurgeon learned to smoke. It was whilst he was an usher in a boys' school at Cambridge, and became pastor of the little Baptist Chapel at Waterbeach. He used to stay with one of the deacons from the Saturday to the Monday. Admiring the zest with which his host enjoyed his clay pipe, a -‘churchwarden" was promised him the following week, which offer he eagerly accepted. Said the old man: “He smoked his pipe as he did everything else—thoroughly; then he said, ‘I think I have had enough.’ ‘Yes,’ I replied, ‘I think you have,’ and he thereupon left the inside for the outside of the cottage.” ’ Gold muzzles, costing from £25 to £ SO. or even more, according to the size of the favoured canine, are being ordered by rich women of their London jewellers.