NEW RIDDLES.

Otago Witness, Issue 1586, 15 April 1882, Page 24

NEW RIDDLES.

(.Dwnng the Prize Competition all Riddles must lie original,)

2742. Charadb.— By Jessie and Aleck, Pukerau :—

How oft my first has been the Inspired poet's theme :— lt may bo but a line of living green,—Bordering a field of yellow grain,— Or a temple great and grand and free,— Covering valley, hill, and plain. My second was once a beautiful sprito,— Gentle, lovable, mild; — But now she is but a maiden fair — A rustic, country child. Now turn back thy course, O changeful Time I— And bear me upon thy breast,— Till I ace my whole in a lovely glade,— Where myrtle boughs make fragrant shade — In the land where herpes rest. 2743. Dkhstion.— By Puffing Billy, Goodwood :--

A word please mention ; if complete -Twill enable you to build a wall.— The centre letter now delete,— And bricks and mortar quickly fall. 2744. Charadh.— By A G Nicol, Greymouth:—

First thought has sprung up in my mind— Third fourth first way I pass my time ;— Tis a pleasure to write (for you to solve),— And charades put into rhyme. Second fourth first title you'll find—Prefixed to many a name;— You'll find third not in British lands, — Though third fourth found in sunny Spain. — There are just eight letters in the whole, — In the Riddler column 'tis seen; — You'll have seen third often lately— Unless you are blind, I ween. 2746. Oblong Pdzzlb.— By Fitz Barry, Kuri Bush:—

1, A Roman lady who was beheaded because she would not drop incense into a heathen censer, and who is one of tho moat honoured saints of the Roman Catholic Church ; 2, a very unpopular position in Ireland at the prosent time ; 3, the name of a portion of Rajpootana (India) ; 4, instruments that are used by all men who are clearing tutu, flax, or manuka scrub oil their properties ; 5, a flute-player who crossed the Channel when William of Orange became King of England ; 6, Washington's successor as President of the United States ; 7, what the followers of tho prophet Mahomet call the Creator of all beauteous objocts; 8, a mother who preferred death to seeing her lovely daughter Lavinia married to a gentleman of royal blood whom she hated ; 9, a Lord Mayor of London who presented a flatterini? address to the Dutch King ; 10, a spy who was condemned to death by a United States court-martial on evidenco found in his boots. Centrals read down name a British colony. Kach word of the answer, except the central one, commences with an 'a' and contains five letters. 2746. Charade.— By B Blunt, Gore :-

If you let him first through second third-way, I will aooii tell you whether he is a whole (which means, a fugitive) or not. 2747. Words Swark.— By EJ P Terry, Alexandra

South:—

1, Cared for ; 2, a fruit ; 3, watch ; 4, to turn out ; 5, a Greek lotter. 2748. Ciiaradb.— By Coquin, Wyndham :—

First, a preposition ; second, a canton in Switzerland ; third, an interjection commanding silence. Whol6, a traveller. 2749. Triplet,— By Eric Joseph, Milburn :—

1, A river in England ; 2, aged ; 3, cunning ; 4, aa insect ; 5, an animal ; 6, a girl's name ; 7, the lair of * fox ; 8, metal ; 10, a bird. Centres name a lake an New Zealand. 2750. Ndmbebbd Charade.— By Adonitis, Dunedin :—

Tho opinions of critics with regard to the whole aie very 74 3215 6. Some are very 11 9 8 6 1 2, and say that this 3 2 1 6 4 13 14 will bo the cause of 7 12 8 9 10 11 74 3 4 6 12 13 14 among Christians. Others hold opinions the 1 2 3 2 1 11 6 of the foregoing, and assort thst the 30281259111 7056182 much praise for the way 12 14 which they have, with almost divine skill, purged the old 391541314 from 7113511 ani 91101315. 2751. Diamond Puzzms.— By Incognito, Gore :— 1, A vowel ; 2, a fruit consisting of a shell and kernel ; 3, a disease of the neck ; sullenness ; 4, centie word ; 5, lassitude ; languor ; 6, the surname (Cbrijtian name William) of a goldsmith of Edinburgh who, in 1730, invented stereotyping; 7, a sibilant consonans. The centre letters will show the name of a king of Pergamus in Asia Minor who, in the year 190 b c , mode parchment from the skins of animals, chiefly goats, Prior to that time, the pith of the reed papjrus (from which paper was named) was used in Indii and Egypt to make tho thin film on which writing* could bo proserved. 2752. CuAitADß.— By Albert E Hardy, Onumru :—

First, a mineral otherwise called tungstou ; second, a preposition ; third, a pronoun. Whole, a Grecian poet who flourished at Ephesua early in the seventh century b.c. 2753. Charade.— By Alex Kidd, Wyndham ;—

First, a river in Europe ; Becond, part of a steam' Bhip. Whole, a small back gate. 2754. Eniqmaticai. List of Birds.— By Bella, Pen hi'

A, Crooked, and a long narrow part ; b, a berry, a consonant, aud a measure ; c, to thwart, and an advertisement ; d, to increase, and to furnish with wings ; o, a colour, and a name applied to fowls ; f , two consonants, ami to move with violence ; s, a prickly bush, and idle talk; h, it colour, and part of a bird ; i, a cereal, and part of the head ; j, a musical instrument, and a name applied to fowla ; k, a fruit, and part of a ship ; 1, an interjection, a vowel, and a poet ; m, a place of public traffic, and a picposition ; n, a consonant, a pronoun, and a vowel : o, a personal pronoun, nnd a piepobition ; p, an adverb reversed, and to plunder ; q. to whisper, and a Sootfcisb loch ; r, a luminary, ft! da fish ; h, part of an animal, and a kind of hatchet; t, near, a metal, and a wind ; v, equivalence, a consonant, and a preposition roveised ; v, a Latin preposition, to shoot out, and a wnall imseof; : w, to transform, ami a a nm ; .\, a precious mutf.l, a ccnsoimnt, iimJ a iiiiwiHf ; y, ii» so'i on qhorCi and ;i fence; z, to blpw, and a yrejioaition,

2755. Oharadb.— By Nihil Nameless, Wyndham :—

' Forward 1 brave men,' our colonel cried, and waved his sword on his;h,— ' To-day we'll gain our liborty, or on the field we'll die ;- We'll make our foemen tremble, we'll make our foemen run,— We'll make our country proud to-day of every loyal son. — Our enemies will mind my whole till time shall pasa away ;— And though it may my second be to find a firat today :— Push on, brave hearts, aDd strike the foe, nor over think of me ;— Remoiuber only that you fight lor home and liberty !' 2756. Words Square.— By Ethel, Kakanui :—

1, A piece of leather; 2, something: much depressed at present ; 3, a bird of prey ; i, a lady's name ; 6, incurring punishment. 2757. CnABADB.— By H Brazier, Alexandra South :—

I'm cunning, skill;- Prefix at will,- 1 am nice to oat ;—I am also a cheat,— For I'm honibly sour :— l'm bo acid, you glower,— To drink a pint would— Take you an hour.