Puzzle Column.

Evening Post, Volume XLVIII, Issue 66, 15 September 1894, Page 1 (Supplement)

Puzzle Column.

♦ [Edited by " Touchstone." J NOTICES TO COHPBTITOBB. Answers to Puzzles of this date must be seat to the Editor of the Puzzle Column, EvbnJnq Post, Willis-street, on or before Tuesday, September 25th, by 4 p.m. Answers sent in later than the above will not be credited. "J.L.M." — Thanks for welcome letter. Will write to you. We think you will find the new rule work all right. If not, we will go back to the old way. Wo are pleased to welcome a new competitor, " Lullah," and hope he will remain with us. "Skylark." — We are sorry your answers were too late last week. They did not reach us till Thursday night. " Tyrwhitt."— Your query is a difficult one. We will give it due cogitation. " Zealandia." — Thanks for double acrostic. It never reached us before, or we should have used it. " Conviva."— Thanks for kindly sympathy. Will write to you. Tour "Touchstone " would be grieved to give up tho Column, but we do not think that is likely. " Advena." — Xours was not an epigram, and too long-. "Viola." — We credited you with four marks — No. 1447 three marks, epigram one mark — which were all that were correct. Good puzzles f rom " Ohiro, " "Zealandia, " ' ' Tessa, " " Checkmate, ' ' and ' ' Pax . ' ' Sincere thanks. Otra Epigrams. On "Nothing." Excellent— E.P.C. " Space without dimensions." —"Jumbo." " A bung-hole without a barrel." — "N.T." " The end of everything, and the germ, for out of Nothing came all creation . ' ' " The bung-hole with no cask round it." —"J.L.M." " A vacuum." — " Pukaki." "The contents of the bottle where the whisky was." — " Conviva." "The happy medium between plus and minus." — "Tessa." " The brain of a fool."—" Chippet." " The Colonial Treasurer's surplus." — " Skylark." "An anomaly— addition thereto, entails loss thereof." — " Zealandia. "| "What we bring into the world." — "Elaine." " That which we brought into the world, and also take out." — " Como." " What we never look for, but very often find."— " Lullah." "What the burglar hates to find." —"Viola." , '' The infinity of decay."— "Tyrwhitt." "A poor man's possession." — " Checkmate." " A bung-hole without a barrel." —"Jack Point." " What the unemployed have to live on." — " Ganymede." "The unemployed's fortune." — "Vivian." " Ex nihilo nihil fit."— "Pax." " The contents of an empty chest." , — " Ohiro." [ " What sceptics believe in." — " Socius." " The qualification of a New Zealand politician."— "H.B.B." jj No. 1448 — Diamond Puzzlb. I By "Touchstone." \ Centrals and downwards name something not often heard in Parliament at present. Lights. 1, A letter ; 2, a measure ; 3, cumuli ; 4, one who wears a mask ; 5, the word ; 6, to aid ; 7, a flower ; 8, a deed ; 9, a letter. No. 1449— Half -Square. By "Touchstone." Top line and downwards name a personage whose dictum is eagerly sought for. Lights. 1, Tho word ; 2, a tryst; 3, the talking shop ; 4, to testify ; .3, loving ; 6, unlawful ;7, a halo ;8, not full ; 9, speechless ; 10, used in shooting; 11, a preposition; 12, a letter. No. 1450— Foub Pkose Charades. By "Touchstone." 1. Said a man :—"lf: — "If you are Second to give me First, I will pay you in the moat Whole manner." 2. First, spice ; Second, a letter ; Third, a tax. Whole, to wound. 3. First a vehicle ; Second, a weight. Whole, an English poet. 4. First, a wail; Second, a rent ; Third, a pronoun ; Fourth, a preposition. Whole, a place of amusement in Wellington. No. 1451— Half Square. By " Ohiro." Good— E.P.C. Top line and downwards give a competitor. Lights. 1, A competitor ; 2, an acquatic animal ; 3, an idol ; 4, a quadruped ; 5, a plant ; G, a bird ; 7, a conjunction ; 8, a letter. No. 1452 — LITEBAEY WOED PUZZLE. By "Pax." Good-E.P.C. Find a quotation from Pope in the folfowing letters: — Aaaadeeeggghiiiilllnnnnorrsstttu. No. 1453. — Double Acrostic. By " Sylva Pencil." Good— E.P.C. Priraals give an original New Zealand pancake ; Finals give a more recent kind of pancake. Lights. 1, A garment worn at masquerades ; 2, the inner fortress of a heathen temple ; 3, pertaining to the sea.; 4, a knob; 5, again; 6, a small brook. No. 1454 — Triple Aohostio. By "Conviva." Capital— E.P.C. Initials are an insect ; Centrals are a geometrical term ; Finals are a complaint. The three together name a cold region. Lights. 1, A famous mountain ; 2, an essence of fruit ; 3, (reverse) to invent. No. 1455— Double Aobostio. By "Viola." Good— E.P.C. Primals name an athlete; Finals, what he takes great interest in. Lights. 1, Natives; 2, uncooked; 3, (reverse) a syllable ; 4, what he does ; 5, himself ; 6, two pronouns ; 7, thin ; 8, a piece of wood. No. 1456— A Problem. By "J.L.M. 11 Good-E.P.C. * ["J.L.M." will demonstrate this if required.— E.P.C] A cheese being put into the scales of a false balance was found to weigh 161b, and when put into the other only 9tt>. What was the true weight ? No. 1457— 0ur Epiobak. On " A Doctor."