NOTES AND QUERIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2157, 27 June 1895, Page 27

NOTES AND QUERIES.

Twesty-ftvb Yeabs 1 Subscriber. -(1) Evidently an affection of the nerves, affecting the membrane of the ear. Try a nerve tonic such as Easton's tyrup or phosphorus pills, and if you deiive no benefit consult a medical man. (2) Soak them at night in peroxidt of hydrogen and use any powder, with plenty of friction. Amateur, Berwick.— The proper time to graft fruit trees is just as the sap is beginning to move— say the latter end of July or August, according to the weather. (2) No, plum btock is not suitable for apple grafts. The affinity between scion (graft) and stock is not close enough. However well the operation of grafting may be performed it will be unsuccessful unless the ttock and scion are nearly related. They miibt be bpeci«s of the same genus or genera of I the same natural order, beyond which the power does not extend. J. T. 8.-(l) Coloßel Hume, Wellington. (2) The ; police force is now strengthened by promotions from the Permanent Artillery, of which you will require to become a member in the first place. Candidates must be under 28 years of age. Ignoramus —It is a Sydney pyndicate, and we do not know that thares are for eale yet. W. M. P-The last place you should think of goiDg to js South Africa, where, unless you are a capitalist or a mining engineer or expert, you will have to compete with what is viitinlly slnve labour. You will require to watch the advert isuments in the daily papers or go to Melbourne, as only occasional vessels call at the Cape. A letter to Cook and Sons, Princes street, Dunedin, stating what particular part of South Africa y.,u wish to go to, 'would icsult in your being supplied with the information you requiie. Piper.— Mr Beverly replies :— Your first query is indefinite because you do not give the length, of pipe. With the same length, dhmeter, and fall, the discharge from a curved pipe is the same as from a straight one, uiiU.es it has sharp bends or knees. The size of pipe icquired to deliver 10 heads, the fall being 20 per mile of length, is about 21|jin 1 and the discharge varies ns the cube of the diameter nearly. Diameter of pipe ... 17in ISm 19in 20iu 2lin 22in 23in Heads discharged ... 5 2 0-1 71 82 94 107 121 Aroiia —(1) Keep ahunp of washing soda handy, and rub it on the wart, previously damped, as often as convenient during the day, ana it will disappear. Caustic So' ! a acts quicker, but it neids care in applying it. (2 and 3) Poor circulat.cai is the ciuse of both. The best cuie is friction if you Lave the patience to apply it. (4) Will be /replied to in Home Interests next week. (5) Hinemoa (myth ) was the beautiful daughter of Umukam and Hincmaru. They dwelt at Rotorua, and the maiden was the centre of attraction for all the youug cLiefs of the mu rounding country. Among these were the tons of Whakaue-Kaipapa, three of whom, Tuwftke hcimoa, Ngarara-iiiii, and Tuteaiti, were legitimately bom; but the fourth, who was named Tutam-kai, had been born aft r his mother, Hangiuru, had eloped withTuwharetoa. Hitieniuaowncdiibecrfct preference forTutatukai above the other suitors, aud the lovers found meiiu to make theii love known between themselves. Being teparated by the lake, music was had recoiuve to es a means of sympathetic comniuiiication, Tulaaekai and his fiiciul playing onnni'ical instruments which could be heard ectoes the water. Guided by the sweet sounds, Hinenioa swam the lake at night, and after being in the water some hours, reached the warm f pring at Waikiroihia, and refresh d herself. There she was found by Tutanekai, who took her to his home ; and, iv the moruinp, to the joy of the whole settlement, produced his beautiful wife. Her place in the pedigrees of her descendants is pointed out with niuch pride, und the btory is & very sweet and simple folk-tils. G. S., Greenfield.— Not good enough for publication. H.K., Ahaura, writes a long letter on the rabbit question, which he contends could be effectively deal with by ruining the hardy cmstitution of the wild grey rabbit by crossing it with the French breeds— the long-woolled white pinkeyed and the lop-eaied var'eties. Thc&e ho would br> eil in wircd-in enclosures and turnout after poisoning, and he estimates that after seven or eight years of this practice the iabbit3 woul-t b<s s,o weakened that they would not be able to get ihr 'iigh a wet or cold winter. We are afraid "U. K." will find it a very difficult matter to work up any enthusiasm over this Inn* of argument. Alternations of phosphorised pollard, loxa, kill-clorcr, &c, with sjsU'mstie wire netting of properties are calculated to have much greater attractions for the ordinary practical mind. Inquirer.— Mr Beverly kindly r< plies: — The magnetic needle lies north and south because the earth is itself a magnet. The behaviour of the dipping net-die is the sime as if a huge magnet were located near the earth's centre, with its south pole pointing to Boothia, in North Canada. This is called the north magnetic pole, and it is slowly moving westward. About GOO years ago it was in the vicinity if Nova Zeinbla, north of Sibciia, The primary rau&e of gales, equinoctial or other\\\s<; is the bun's heat. The popular belief that the phases of the moon influence the weather is nearly dead, and the belief that gales are more frequent at the equinoxes than at other times will probably soon follow. The weather registeis are killing botb, but they die hard. The storms that visit places in temperate latitudes are mostly cyclonic, originate in the tropics, and are from three to six weeks old. They travel westward and toward the pole in tho tropics, and eastward in temperate latitudes, at rateß varying generally from 200 to 500 miles per day. Hence it is clear that if they arrive at a temperate locality at the equinox, they could riot originate at the equinox. The real cause of all storms is : a part of the atmos-phere becomes more heated than the surrounding parts ; being lighter it ascends, and the cooler surrounding air rushes in to fill its place, but owing to the earth's rotation the opposite currents do not meet each other square, aud a whirl is produced, whoee revolution is always contrary to the eun's diurnal motion. Once started, a cyclone travels along with the prevailing winds, expanding and becoming less violent, until finally it dies out. Inquirer as-ks— Where can a copy of mining , cases tried in the Supreme and District Courts during the past five years be procured, and at what cost?— The New Zealand Law Reports, to which the annual subscription is £3 3s, is the only work in which the decisions of the Supreme Court- can be found. There is no authorised report of cases in the District Court, but a good many of them are to be found in the Finance and Mining Journal, published in Dunedin, to which the annual subscription is 153. Star.— You have an undoubted right to remove j the range, but it must be done before your lease is up. ! Constant Reader.— Two or more joint owners, residing in a dwelling house, would be qualified to vote at the election of a school committee, but it must be a house, not a shed, or a tent, or any mere temporary shelter. Farmer S. — The quotations by the last few mails have simply notified that the market is unchanged. We shall publish the fir o t quotations that come to hand, and shall further endeavour to arragge with our Home wool correspondent to quote in his letter. That, however, will take some time. Uncle writes :— Can you give, or tell where it can he got, the old story of the willow pattern on eartheuware? Being at a house where the pattern was in use I asked some young people of the party to give me the old Btory that I had heard Eome 40 years ago. They had urver heard of any such btory, and called it a horrid old pattern. Being unable to tell the story, I could only cay that my recollection was a love story, and the moral was young people would find it wrong and dangerous to duobey their parents. It is the tale of an elopement, of pursuit, capture, and punishment of the culprits ; but we are at pment unable to find the Btory in its entirety. Perhaps some reader can supply it for publication in the Little Folks Page. A 30 Ybabs' Reader.— Mr Beverly replies .k. k - Hydraulic rams are used only for the purpose of

raisin* water to a great height by means of a low fall, and are therefore unsuitable. Under no circumstances can they raise the entire quantity that falls, owingto their construction. A jet pump w ill raise a third of a bead besides the quantity thit falls, the jet dUcharfcmg 1 5 heads with a pressure of 500 ft, and the lift being 300 ft. To discharge I's heads at that pressure, the jet nniot be l'2s|n diamoter, and the supply pipe not less than 7in. The lift pipa may be tho same size, but it must be narrowed clown to 2in at the throat, where the jet enters. The centiifugul is more efficient than the jet pump, but it is more costly. Farmer.— Messrs Murray, Roberts, and Co. are, we believe, the agents.