Answers to Riddles Published March 12.

Otago Witness, Issue 1935, 26 March 1891, Page 27

Answers to Riddles Published March 12.

5727. Missing Cubes.— Selected^by Thersites*, Oamaru :*— "A frienc should bear his friend's infirmities.'" ' —Shakespeare, Julius Csoiar, Act iv., Scene 3.. :5723, BtTßißD.EscHiiSff RtTKßS.— Seleotedby Ooloaslle, Wakari :— See, OJyne, Welland, Tare, Ouse, Eden. 6739. Anagrams- on Posts.— By Andrew A. Scott:— s 1, Fltzgreene Halleek ; 2, John Keats ; 3, William' Oullen Bryant; 4, Samuel Taylor Coleridge; 5. i William Cowper; 6, Edmund' Spenser; 7, Alfred* Tennyson; 8, Robert Southey; 9; fiobert Browning; ' 10, Robert Burns ; 11, James Montgomery ; 12, Peroy Bysshe Shelley ;, 13, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow » 14, Thomas* Howard; 16, William Wordsworth; 16, , William Shakespeare. 5730. Double Aobosmo.— By Gertrude Brunt :— EnT i o B RHENQ. CBROS kbk b or H»r t H IaBT T B R i t k a a 5731. CaiSADE.— By Harry Jakeway s— Perfume. 57322. CxraTAttUHHTav— By T. S. B.j— Glare-t, dim-e, gas-b, mat-e, hug-e, prim-e. 1 5733. CoHtffißßUM.— Selected by Romany Ejc, Musielburgh :—

[ Speaking at Leeds recently, Mr Gtasohen, Chancellor of the Ezohequor, went very fnlly into the causes which ruined Barings in November last and have reduced Lord Bevelstoke, the present head of the house, from & millionaire to a beggar dependent for his means of livelihood upon an annuity of £2000 given him by the other members of his family. Mr Gosohen said that on that occasion Great Britain narrowly escaped a terrible financial crisis, caused partially by the fact that although London was the financial capital of the world the reserves of gold in the Bank of England were far too low, being only £24,000,000, as compared with the Bank of France, which had in gold and silver £95,000,000, the Bank of Germany £40,000,000, and the United States Treasury and National Banks £141,000,000. Bufc the amount of gold in the hands of the public was vatiously estimated at from £65,000,000 to £110,000,000, and he intended if possible to get some of that gold into the bank by the issue of bank notes of a smaller denomination than £5. The £20,000,000 which he hoped to obtain in this way oould be regarded as a second reserve, and would never be touched except on an emergency. He had not made up his mind about the value of these notes. £2, £1, and 10s had all been suggested, but he was in communication with the Bank of England on the ones* tion, and hoped to come very shortly to some deoiekm, * * .«

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