NOTES AND QUERIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 972, 5 September 1889, Page 20

NOTES AND QUERIES.

Oil Cake.— (l) There is a considerable demand for linseed at the present time, and the price is consequently higher than it has been for many years. Prime seed is fetching as high as 7s 6d per bushel in Dunedin. (2) If for seed, one bushel per acre ; if for fibre for fine work, three bushels; for fibre for course work, two bushels. (3) The best time for sowing is from the beginning of September to the middle of October. (4) Thirty bushels. (5) Well stir the ground with a grubber to turn up all weeds, then harrow as clean and smooth as possible, put the seed in with the drill and lightly cover. When the plant has attained a height of about 3in the ground should be gone over and carefully hand weeded, the great secret of success being to keep the ground clean. (6) Between three and four months from time of sowing. Student, — In the Supreme Court, Dunedin, on the

18th instant. A Pabent.— (l) The term of apprenticeship to plumbers and tinworkers in Dunedin is six: years. As a rule no legal agreement is made. The usual wage paid is 5s per week the first year, and 7s 6d, 10s, 15s, 21s, and 30s for the following yeara, and if competent some firms increase on this rate. (2) " Chambers' Etymological Dictionary of the Bngljsh Language," 4s 6d; " Nuttall's Pronouncing Dictionary, with Appendix of Foreign and Classical Worda, Phrases, ani Abbreviations," 4s; " Stormonth's Dictionary of the English Language, Pronouncing, Etymological, and Explanatory," 9s ;at J. Horsburgh's, George street. (3) The onion you describe must be a potato onion. It appears to be the small oninn used for pickling. If co, seed is obtainable at J. H. Pressly and Co.'s, Princes street South. Warhawk and Poser. — See sporting. Fbhktkadeb.— Soften the skins by soaking, then tack on a board with the fleshy Bide out, and scrape with a blunt knife. Next ru^ with pulverised chalk until the skin will hold no more ; then take from the board and rub it hard with pulverised alum ; double half way over with the flesh side in contact, then roll tightly together and keep dry for three days, sffcor which stretch on the board again and dry in the air. 0. G.— No ; under the circumstances mentioned you cannot compel the owDer to pay for the grazing of the horse. Old Judge.— A judge of the Supreme Court cannot, except in a few peculiar cases, refuse to take a jury's verdict. Old Subscriber, Poison creek.— (l) You have no

such right. (2) The runholder can prevent it. Babbitbb.— You can be fined if you had an unregia-

tered dog for 14 days. Mata. — (1) Under the Bankruptcy Act, if bankruptcy takes place within three Tears, the deed will be void unless it is shown that the bankrupt was solvent at the time the deed was executed. (2 and 3) It must be prepared by a solicitor and registered. J. S. — Scarcely suitable for a newspaper, though it Would answer admirably for a music hall topio SODg. Berwick.— Your specimen is common iron pyrites or mundic. It is of no value. Inquiber.~<l) Mr B. B. Cargill purchased the Geelong in Melbourne for Jones, Cargill. and Co , and brought her down to Dunedin In the year 1859, and she was at once -pat to run oh the coast between Dunedin and Lytte'.ton, taking also the intermediate ports of Waikouaiti, Moeraki, Oamaru, and Axaroa, and proved a great boon to the settlers, who, till then, had been dependent upon the services of one or two small schooners. Shortly after 1 her arrival she mads a trip to the South with Captain Oargill, then Superintendent of Otago, on board, vliiting Invercargill, the Bluff, Biverton (off which she anohored without entering), and the Olufcha, wbloh she went up v