NEW RIDDLES.

Otago Witness, Issue 1500, 14 August 1880, Page 24

NEW RIDDLES.

1530. Charade. -By A G Nicol, Greymouth :- (1.) My first is used by all mankind To second goods and gear ; Whole ia first; and second joined, In first my (2) No town could be without my first; Keep itreet bow in your mind ; The stresst, it does second a first, In street my whole you'll find. (8 ) On ship, the flrat on deck is seen, My second is below; My whole may be on board the ship Without (4.) If I had a ne»t [pleasant first, To second a true wife, To make my whole a happy lot, And soothe the caies of life. 1631. Single Acrostic -By Hook, Waimate :— A lake in Britain's lovely isle, An inhibitant of this sphere ; A river that flowi fur many a mile, To every mother dear. A part of every man or beast, A tree that in England grows, A liquor uaed at many a foavt, A river that through Europe flows. The initial letters irive the name Of a Waimato damsel fair, With rosy cheeks and dark blue eyes, And lovely jat-blackhair. 1532. Charade.— By ThiDgamy, Tapanul :- Firat, to allure ; 2nd, a vowel ; 3rd, a man's name ; whole, a man's name. 1638. Acrostic— By Ina, Oreti:— 1 a season of the year ; 2, being without ; 8, an idea ; 4, a filament of silk or cotton ; 5, to rub off ; 6, to boil down and clarify. 1534. Numbsbed Charade —By Ghost, LovelPa Flat : I am a word made up of four vowels and four consonants. My 4356, is trouble ; 26, a number ; 8 6 1 5, not distant ; 3 8 2, a girl's name; 5 7 3 2, a colour. Whole name a Greek lyrical poet. 1535. Geoqraphicali WinbslAbs Pczzlb —By Eliza S Crookston :— 1, a town on two rivers in Ireland j 2, a town in Wales ; 3, a town in China ; 4, two towns in Scotland ; 5 a strait in North America ; 6, a town in Africa ; 7, a town in Scotland ; 8, a loch ia Scotland ; 9, a vowel ; 10 a consonant ; 11, a river in Germany ; 12, a province in New Zealand; 13, country in South America. Centres read down name a country in South America. 1586. CHARABB.-By Will-if-LOan, Waimate:— Mv first is a,u adjective in the positive degree. My second is a song in parts, sung by a company, My third is a relative, as you will plainly see, My whole is a pedestrian of walkiDg celebrity. 1657. Chabadb.— By A Gerrard, Wiaton :— What Christian or surname of six letters ('our consonants and two vowels) is the same when reversed ? 1538. Square Words.— By Diabolus, Winton:— 1, preserved from danger ; 2, solitary ; 8, by word of mouth ; 4, to perform ; 5, a district in Egypt. 689. Decapitation.— By M Malcolm, Windsor Downs a lam a word of six letters. Whole, I mean security : behead me, aud I am a moulding j behead me again, and I am sharp. 1640. Transpositions. -By T S Milne, Woodlands :— Tarsehc, Nfthaavai, Ngih stirf, Rcowawsw, Amilaci, Acmttwetso. Names of six AUBtralian racehorses. 1511. Diamond Puzzra.— By Christina G, Waikaka :— 1, a consonant ; 2, to steul ; 3, hard sabstinces in animals ; 4, complicated ; 6, same as down csntre ; 6, to justify ; 7, a town in ffrai co ; 8, to bo uick ; fl, consonant. Centres denote the name of an apple. an<l p a small printing type.

1642. Transposition.— By Bob, Woodland* j— Bisdtru ihm ton eh srebmuls Hew No Bhi hero 'dim eth ternsew pede* Hwere eth roadb lueb ureiaw darnoud mih Hews, Nad eth pesttem's roe mlh weeps. 0 veale imh hwere sib tainnoum deb, Kools e'ro <eth Citalant owav ; Hetremairn ghih no eth raif yrag ysk, Toinpß ton Snolopoa'u vagre. 1543. Double Acrostic— By WH, Glenham :— Take a useful animal for the first, A sailor's name for second ; An Australian dog it is the third, and drink the fourth is reckoned. Then take aged for the next, and then a little pest. And last, a sturdy English tree, To place below the rest. Then read tho primals downwards, And the finals r<>ad upright, And a riddlet'B norn de plume and address Will come before your sight. 1544. Diamond Puzzle.— By J. Kermode, Naseby :— 1, a consonant ; 2, an animal ; 3, a favourite call o a child ; 4, a town in Western Australia ; 5, same as down centre ; 6, a name applied to chief towns ; 7, an adjective; 8, an insect; 9, a consonant. Down centre and across name a small town in the South Island. 1545. Diamond Puzzle.— By W. Don, Dunedin :— 1, a consonant ; 2, with ; 3, a premium ; 4, ft salt work; 5, foisikers; 6, dwellers; 7, same as dow centre ; 8, grown together ; 9, coquetry (curtailed) ; 10, relating to medicine ; 11, a covering for the hand ; 12, a number ; 18, a consonant. The centres read downward* and across Mill name something that 1b always seen iv the Riddler Column. 1546. Numbered Charadb.— By Alex Kidd, Wyndham : 12 6 18 14, a colour ; 78 9, cattle food ; 4 8 10 11 9, groundless opinion ; 12 13 6, a fowl. Whole, ft Pruasian town in a very marshy district. 1648. Charadb.— By A G Nicol, Greymouth:— Well-filled first all like to have, And always close at hand ; The letter E put to my first, My whol« works not on land. 1648. Charadk.— By Hamlet, Lovell's Flat :— While strolling one day in the vicinity of the Maori Kaik we were much amused at seeing an elderly Maori woman walking about bare-headed and barefoot d, but attired in Bilk and co3tly last, and weariug upon her dark-skinned though shapely first an expensive whole.