ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1501, 21 August 1880, Page 23

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Solutions of problem 267 received from J H, Ashburton ; FRT, Timaru ; R M H, Queenstown ; and J. T. Turner, Waitahuna. And of {problem 268 from J H, Ashburton ; G MD, Oamaru ; D L X, Invercargill; and J. T. Turner, Waitahuna. Solution of Problem 268. White. Black. 1 Xt to X Xt 5 Any move 2 B or Xt mates.

HE CHANGED HIS NAME. Fieldwitz has lately become strangely demure and quiet— even sadly quiet. I was wondering at the change and puzzling over the cause of it, when lo ! one day last week he himself revealed the mystery to mo. He entered a saloon where I was, his countenance beaming with joy and his whole manner betokening unusual excitement. Evidently he was full of great news, and was seeking for a suitable personage to whom he might impart it. Spying out our old friend Don F., he rushed up to him, and finding the Don Bleeping peacefully in an armchair, woke him up and exclaimed, " I have succeeded !" " Succeeded," fisked the prospective recipient of his secret, "in what?" t In changing my name. The Queen has sanctioned it and an Order in Council to that effect will be issued forthwith, entitling me to call myself William Surewitz," "Law," observed the Don; " changed your name 1 What a lucky fellow," and then pausing for a minute, his countenance during the time being

expressive for a happy thought, combined with a numerical calculation correctly worked out, he said, " What a remarkable thing ! Why, your name now begins with the same initial and contains the same number of letters as Staunton's." " I will tell you a still more remarkable thing ; my initials arc now those of some of the greatest men this country has produced. "Law, you don't mean it." "Yes, Walter Scott, William Shakespeare, &c."— horc a gentle breeze of laughter arose, inaugurated and principally sustained by the speaker ; but ere it died away a voice, hollow but screamy, bore across it the words, " Aye, and don't forget Will Sykes." Then the breeze rose to a storm of laughter, which blcwthe new-fledged aristocrat to the far end of the room, raised the ire of the waiter at the disturbance, caused six players who were on the point of winning their games to lose them, one magazine reader to lay down his book and look daggers at the revellers, and hurled from the room two ancient and Iquiot lookers-on filled with rage and disgust.— " Mars," in Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic news.