THE RIDDLER.

Otago Witness, Issue 2043, 20 April 1893, Page 38

THE RIDDLER.

New .Riddles. 6484. Acrostic— By W. R. Ewing :— A poet rich in wild romance, A flower of gorgeous hue ; An exclamation often made

By me as well as you. A soothing beverage then comes next, A charming singing bird ; I'd better stop, or else I'll soon Disclose the very word.' Yet more ! a meek disciple 'mong the twelve, A star in yonder dome, A river, sung in sweetest verse In every cottage home. Now pluck the first of every word, And range in order right ; A nation then of great renown

Will come before your sight. 6465. Rhomboid.— By Colonslie :—

Across.— l, Bar of wood or iron ; 2, to draw along the ground ; 3, closed ; 4, an evil spirit ; 5, Athenian sage and lawgiver ; 6, at no time.

Down. — 1, A consonant ; 2, a proposition most nearly equivalent to to, without the original implication of motion; 3, signifying anger; 4, to put or go on shore ; 5, edges or borders; 6, an acid fruit ; 7, a thing dealt out ; 8, an abbreviation for one of the winter months ; 9, two letters denoting one of the semi-cardinal points ; 10, a. letter. 6466. Decapitations.— By J. S. A. :— My whole is a name upon females bestowed ; Behead me, and then you've a sign— good or bad; Behead me again, then upon the high road We oft meet with last, very variously clad. 6467. Cryptogram.— By Thersites :— B I TJ-R S 50-E T O-5 H F-I E W-

T S I-Y O T. What well-known quotation is expressed, in the above cryptogram ? 6468. Concealed Flowers.— By J. Herbert :—

1. Canada is your country but New Zealand ia mine.

2. He was so dull and morose his company was not agreeable. 3. Point out on the map Chili, lying on the Pacific coast. 4 Aye those new milk pans your own ? 5. Pine fir is quite different from cat's fur. 6. No man can serve two masters.

Answers to Riddles 6451 to 6455. ;. 6451. Anagram.— Selected by Thersites :—

Flow, sky, Kent—

" Know thyself."

6452. Enigma.— By Lord Macaulay :—

Hay. 6453. Missing Words.— By J. B. Hoijftjuafixt'ira- " Who with a little cannot b^qontenfc

Endures an everlasting pun'Afywtft'' 1 645 J, Star.— By Arcanus :—

V E M V O P If A N E P E I Pi. A H I E MS ARM E T S NASTIER S E R 6455. Metamorphoses.— By John X. :— Duck, luck ; plum, lump ; plump, plumb.

The colony had to pay one-half the damage sustained by the poorer portion of the sufferers by the recent flood in Wellington, as, the money collected was handed ovtr to the Benevolent Institution, and a Government subsidy of pound for pound thus secured.

In reference to the claim put forward incorrespondence in the Melbourne Argus that to Mr W. B. Rhodes belonged the honour of forestalling the French in the annexation of the South Island, the friends of Mr Rhodes who knew him well say that he never hinted at such a thing. - It is believed that the new version of the story put forward in the Argus must be a case of mistaken story on the part of the writer, who has confused the late Captain Rhodes with? the captain of H.M.S. Britomart,