Answers To Correspondents

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27572, 14 December 1950, Page 8

Answers To Correspondents

Hear Ye Not False Witness ’’ and 'M. Mel.”—Your letters are being returned to you. We regret that we cannot find space for lengthy metaphysical arguments.

J. B. G., Milton.—The address asked for is care of the Grand Hotel, Dunedin “ Interested in Otago,” Roxburgh.—The height above sea level of the following towns in Otago is as follows: Palmerston 50ft; Dunback, 172; Macrae’s Flat 950 (approximately); Middlemarch, 665- 'Ranfurly, 1388; Alexandra, 493; Cromwell 633;. Roxburgh, 318. We cannot give you the average annual rainfall for each of the above-mentioned places, but it can be said that the average fall for towns nearest the coast, Palmerston and Dunback, is from 30 to 40 inches, and for the Central Otago towns 13 to 20 inches Not Impressed.”—Directed to the journal in which the comments appeared " Eglinton,” Lake Wakatipu.—Reference to the Eglinton tournament is made in Sir W. Fraser’s “ Memorials of the Montgomeries,” 1859. This tournament, a medieval festival of Empire, was revived by the thirteenth Earl of Eglinton at Eglinton Castle in 1839, and was arranged on a most elaborate scale in which some 15 knights, including Louis Napoleon, tilted in ancient and spectacular fashion, breaking their spears in the jousts and finally paying their devoirs to Lady Seymour. The whole programme occupied about a week and was representative of charity and chivalry.