NOTES AND QUERIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2168, 12 September 1895, Page 36

NOTES AND QUERIES.

A. M., Gore— <l) The sample you thiuk is limestone may be co, but it i*i very impure, cuUbistingof competed sand n.ixed with more or less comminuted shells. It might be of u* e for agricultural purposes. (2) The second Bainplc is a very unctuous cloy, mixed with carbonaceous matter and very little oil. It probably comes from tho neighbourhood of ali»nite seam. (3) With rcgird to your question about the School of Mines, your best course i 3 to write to tbe registrar (Mr Hamilton), who will furnish you with full purliculars. A year's course would not be enough. Robkut— (l) Only from the Government printer, Wellington. (2) Large-Bized paper Bhould not be Uhcd in writing to the pie-s, as it causes inconveuience to tbe compositors. A single sheet of notepaper>or very litile larger, is the most suitable size. (3) Yes. Old SußSClunun.-The caterpillars you send are not the lai vie of the roillin motb, but we cannot at present say definitely what they are. We shall, however, endeavour to brted thtni out, aad let you kuosv the result in this column in due tiuif. Inquirer X.— The usual course is to go as an apprentice to the workshops, choosing from pattern inaking, fitting, unith, boiler-waking, and turning ami wachiue shops. Some go into two or Ibiee of these, and Borne, we believe, tnke » turu al a. 1. Maiine engineers and engineers io charge of large ongii'es have to pass examinations, particulars of which can bi obtained from Mr Duncan or Mr Morrikon. the Government inspectors of inachiuory. Bjoka alone wouli give little idea of the tubject, and the exact branch to be followed will have to be known before they could be enumerated. Mr Braithwaite has an excellent telectiou of engineering works— woiks on engines, boilers, &c, including Mole»worth, Templcton, &c. L C, Orepuki.— Kindly communicate with Mr T. A. Jnulay, Purekircki, Ow*ka, in r« "Lost Israel Found," Ed. Hine. He will give you information regarding identity literature of all kinds. Shepherd.— The charge for taking a dog from the Bluff or Dunedin to the North Island would be about ss. There is no quarantine on d. gs going from port to port iv iNcw Zealand. Soeahkr.— The National Mortgage and Agency Company is the Dunedin agent for the Wolseley dheep-sheariug machines. T. J. Johnston, Bluff, writes :— I am sending you per bo. k post a natural curiosity in Uie shape of a small hen's egg with boffc shell fouud inside the yolk. Doubtless it will be of some interest to poultry experts. — This occurrence ia by no means uncommon, and tha rtceipt of specimens is frequently acknowledged by The Field and kindr«.d paper* at Home. The cause is supposed to be fright interrupting the formation of the eg* at an early stage, the Bucceediug egg forming round tho checked one. Tussock.— 'l he bjbrid offspring of the male aS and the inara is called a inulo, while the offspring of a female o£s and a btallion is called a hinny. Castle Rock.— (l) The puzzle is fcimply a catch, and though it was thicbhod out years ago thosa whp engaged in the etrugule were no wiser at the end than they weie at the beginning. It is not worth c mmencing over again. (2) Yes ; shall bd very glad to do so. Buodriub —(I) Yes, his name was John Brod ribb, but he legally assumed the name of Honry Irving when hin son tveut t,o Oxford. (2) According to Pliny "The La>coon" was tbe work of the Rhodian aitista Ageaandtr, Polydoruß, and Atlienodorua. Various date< have been i»B»igiied to it, from 200 B.C. till 200 A.D., but the best authorities place its date at a little , befoie 100 B.C. W. It. M'King.— You will have to pay ag»in unless you attend the court with your wife and prove you have already paiJ. If you succeed the court has power to allow your expeubei and those of yonr witnesses, and will probably do EO. William Thomas.— Their appears to be no provision in the existicg law for compelling a neighbour to join in the co«t of erecting a wire netting fence. There is a bill now before I'ar-liam-nt which will probably become law shortly which makes Borne provision on th<s Bubject. You should bring your neighbour's neglect under the notice of the inspector. R., 0-iuiaui. writes: - I<\ reply to "ABC." in Notes and Queries, I may n eution that Captain Dabinett died on May 25, l^/, from a wound in the neck iufl cted by G. Crawfoid. Tue next murder in Otsgo was that of Andrew Wilson at . the Holyiieux, ntar Balclutha, by John Fra*«on, who was sentenced to dv-ath in October 1862. His eentence was commuted to imprisonment for life, but he wim liberated in 1832. Joseph Smith, usually cjlkd '' Yor'/ey," was murdered at Millet's Flat on March 23, 1803. Tom.— Mr Biverly kindly replies :— A cubic foot of water per i-ccond falling 20ft gives I's-hoise power. The same falling 10ft givei half as much, 75-horse power. Ido not know what you mean by a squute foot of water. The size of buckets v» ill depend on the quantity of water discharged per second, which you do not give. Puzzled.— We believe some kind of aa answer wab evolved a few year< ago, but as the question is a catoh it could not be said to hi a correct one. We cannot recall what it was, not having kept a note of it. D. A. C— fl) The Mairi war in the Waikato broke out in 1883. (2) Hartley and Keilly arrived in Dunedin with the first gold from tbe Dunstan in August 1862, and the Dunst^n goldrield was proclaimed on the 23id September in the name year, iho rush commencing in the middle of thft previous month. B. Z.— The case was Buon v. I?e\d, and judgment was Riven on April 8, 189 >, with leave to appeal. Thd plaintiff gave the usual security in case of appeal, but proceeded no further with it.