The lad had a very smart dog ho called " Dick The gentleman expressed surpriso at the namo, when quoth the lad: " Yes, Diclc Soddon's his name. Father gave him that name bccause ho is so clever; he' says ho is as smart as Dick Seddon." Somo timo ago a native child in Mas terton was suffering from typhoid fever. Tho parents of the child, to the intense surpriso of certain European friends, look their offspring in their arms and immersed it in cold water. To tho still greater surpriso of tho civilised race the child survived tho shock, its temperature was reduced, and in a few days ib was running about as usual. It is somewhat strange to learn from a medical student at present in Masterton that a precisely similar treatment is now adopted in Edinburgh hospitals. Nearly ovory patient sufforin,' from typhoid fever is now immersed for minutes at a time in cold water, It would thus seem that in medical science there aro some things which the more civilised European may learn from the aboriginal. The Daily Fosl, Sydney, has a stylo of its own if wo may judge from tho follow ing Tho House is enriched with the broad-mindedness of a member named Anderson. How ho got in, he only] knows. How he will trot out again, at! an election to come, is already a laugh able joke. His mind is no broader than the point of a pin. Ho knows as much abouteconoraics as Captain Cook's stutue knows about circum-navigalion. A few weeks ago he kicked up a hubbub because he was not asked to preside at a meeting of unemployed in his electorate. He had audacity enough last night to say that ho would not support any proposi tion to make it—er—er penal for any man to—to—l o seek to earn his—or—or— crust. This just shows that a nine-day pup has a comprehension as big, or a little bigger, than that sf Mr Andersou, M.P." "Insist on getting Reynolds and Go's celebrated Anchor Butter, cat no other, it is the best. The London Dairy Company, are the sole Wholesale Agents,—[Advt,]

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Per Press Association - , WOOL MARKET CHEERFUL, London, March 26. At the wool sales to-day a splendid selection was offered. The prices were firm, and all sections of trade operated freely. MORE LYING ABOUT NEW PROCESSES. London, March 2G. 