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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1828, 21 April 1885, Page 3

"I heard," says Sir Richard Temple (in Men and Events of my time in India), "of an European officer who had mingled in disguise with a Mohammedan congregation ■when a political sermon was being preaohed in one o£ the • mosques. . The point of the discourse consisted of an allegory, aimed at the British, which was somewhat in this wise. A she-wolf in feeble health once eame,-befor« the Nizam and begged for a she&to sfjelteriher till she recovered, which vraa proofed, v After a time his highness Bent:» servant to say that if she had recovered it wa> time for her to quit. But meanwhile several cubs had been born, and she begged yet & little time and grace for herself and her young, in" order to gain strength for moving } this also was granted. In due course another messenger vras sent, to say that"the term already allowed waa expiring. But now the she-wolf was herself again, the bubs had grown strong, and they all, both mother and offspring, began to open their, teeth, refusing to move; accordingly theynaser have moved frum that day forwart!.'' . The Kay J, 0. Wilder, of the class of '85 in the Vermont University, ia the oldest College student perhaps in the world, as at the?age of 83 he has returned to finish the course ofjstudy interrupted when he was a member of the' class of '32 Reading (matter continued on fourth pagtj .