That looked very well, shining as a bright example to other more sordid men who insisted upon having a salary before undertaking to serve their country. The fact is Lord Cross has been on the pension list since New Tear's Day, 1887. He drew £2,000 a year from the public exchequer, and might take it either in meal or in malt. If be drew £2,000 a year quarterly, the ÜBual salary of the Lord Privy Seal, he must forego identical payment from tbe political pension fund. He discreetly secured the unique position of sitting in the Cabinet Council tbe only unpaid Minister, whilst his £5,000 a year was punctually paid from the politi cal pension office. The department haß its comedy and its trageey. The first was supplied in the case of Mr Charles Yilliers, who, having for 30 years draw his pittance of £1,200, died leaving a colossal fortune. The second papers in the case of poor Lord Iddeeleigb, who, having been shelved with a peerage and a pension of £2,000 a year, lived to draw from the fund only £955 0a 9d. There is true pathos in that ninepence. ,

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Our interviewer met Mr. Frederick Palmer, of No. 107 "Hanover-street, Dunedin, Avho stated that whilst work ing 4 uVtb\e f/uifr trade between Auckland and Fiji, his blood got in a bad slate. "JPimpies came out all over .-my body,' said Mr. Palmer. " They were just like young boils; with a distressing aching painp which proved a source of continua annoyance. After a while these pimples became very itchy and irritating, and the more I-seifttfechevl, the more they, itchod. The torture was unendurable, sometimes ma.king me rub and rub till the tops came off, and thu3 the exa-perating irri a.taMQiL was intensified. I got no pro per rest at night — very often no sloep at all — and I got up nearly every morn ing feeling thoroughly unfit for work, i If I got four or five hours sleep out of tho twenty-four I did rcmafkaoly well, but it was not an unusual thing for me to He J in misery all night through and nob sleep haJf-an-hour. 