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NOTES AND QUERIES.

Questions for reply in coming issue to l>e received not later thci7i Monday night. W. E. R —The size of the Garrison Hall from wall to wall is BS;t x Wfb, and the Agricultural Hall is 91ft x 80ft. The gallery of the Agricultural Hall is much larger than that of the Garrison Hall. The Garrison Hall will probably seat 2000, and the Agricultural Hall fully 30u0. A considerable number above that have been already seated within the Agricultural Hall. Okgaj.ette.— (l) The prices of the different organettes obtainable in Dunedin are as follows :— Ariston's, with six pieces of music, £'H 10s ; small roller organ, six pieces of music, £<l 10s ; small " Princess " roller organ, six pieces of music. £6 10s ; large " Princes-. " roller organ, with harmonium combined, 25 guineas. Any of these are obtainable at the Dresden. Of the cheaper ones the " Princess " organ is the best. (2) Twenty per cent. E. F., Odinaru.— Yes, shall be glad to get any interesting facts or incidents. Dunedin.—" I. M. I." writes :— Your correspondent, "J. G. E.," is quite wrong in his derivation of Edinburgh and Dunedin, and "Fabian Bell" is on the right tack. Edwin'sborough may have existed somewhere, but tiuly it was not Edinburgh, for no Northumbrian king ever held sway there. It was the other way about, as all history testifies. Then, again, such a word as "borough" is unknown in Scottish phraseology. Plenty of them are found in England ; across the Border none. Had it been as " J. G. E." suggests, it would have been written JSdinborouKh — certainly not an impiovement. The impress of the surname proves the origin. "Dun " iv Gaelic means a mound or hill, and not a " fort," a word later introduced ; hence Fortrose, the only town in Scotland I know of with the appellation. There are others of a much more recent date along the Caledonian i Canal, erected after the bloody, treacherous I Culloden. "J. G. E." further shows his incom- : potency as an authority hy quoting the brothers Chalmers " instead of "Chambers," the celebrated publishers, as the' suggestors of Duuedin. Port Chalmeis was named in honour of the celebrated Free Church leader and divine, Dr J Thomas Chalmers. A Bruised Finger Nail. — Mr R. L. Christie, Wiiikaka Valley, writes :— When reading " lluljum in Parvo" in last week's Witness, 1 noticed , instruction* how to treat a bruised fingor nail. I have a method which gives instant relief in a Case of the sort, ?ud have often thought of pub- I lishing the same for the benefit of suffering humanity. A bruised finger nail is a common, simplp, but veiy painful accident — "I've had some." My plan is to bore a hole with the point of a pocket knife into the black spot as soon as it appear;-. A person would think that it would be paiuful when the point of the knife goes throuzh the nail, but that is ju3t the time you get relief, as a black drop of blood immediately | rises out of the hole. The hole, which is very j small, soon closes up with the blood drying in it, and after about an hour the finger again becomes paiuful, but one turn of the knife in the hole will again give relief. By following this plan a person, instead of losing his'-finger nail (to say nothing of a few nights' sleep), will simply have the nail disfigured by a small hole, which soon disappears as the nail grows. Reader of Witness.— The holder of a miner's right is not entitled to run a horse or a head of cattle upou a mining reserve leased for grazing purposes. T. X — The old committee has no power to do anything after the new one is elected. The new committee must deal with the matter. M. 8., Hyde. — There is no solicitor of the name you mention practising in Dunedin. ** Thomas Cooper, Jun.— The mere fact that you are interested in two mining partnerships does not, when you mark out a claim in the interest of one partnership, give the other a right to an interest in it. J. A. C — We think you cannot be compelled to return the. water to its original course, and that the present owners are bound by what was done by their predecessor in title. M. M. Allan. —Mr Beverly kindly replies :— Wellington time is 9min 22^ec before New Zealand time, and Inve-caigill time is 16min 32sec after New Zealand time. Hence the difference between Wellington time and Invercargill time is 25uiin slsec. Inquirer — The difficulty you experience in making butter at this season because of prolonged churning arises from the chilling of the milk or cream when set, and its consequent nonripening. Neither milk nor cream will ripen as in summer at a temperature below 52deg to 56deg Fahr., and at that must not be subjected to draughts, so you must attend to the temperature of the apartment. When proceeding to churn, or indeed 12 hours before, raise tho temperature to 56deg or sSdeg. This may be effected in a small dairy by placing the cream \ r essel in another containing warm water, and then the cream or milk should i c repeatedly stirred so that it may be uniformly heated throughout. Keepers of only a few cowa frequently place the cream crock over-night near the fire, and thus gradually prepare the cream for the churning procesn, which should be commenced in winter with the liquid at fiOdeg. Where this temperature is not reached in any other way, and when a double case churn is not at hand, warm water must be added, and a few movements of the dash gi>en at intervals during an hour or so before the final churning is commenced. The proper conditions of temperature and ripening observed, the butter will " come" as iv summer. ; H. M. C —(1) The Queen is said to be only 4ft Sin j in height. (2) Kapok is thfi silky wool which ! invests the seeds of Eriodendron aufractuosum, a species of silk cotton tree botanically related to the cotton plant, found in the East and the West Indies. Tuber. — (1) Yes, tuberculosis is generally regarded ! as an infectious disease. (2) A stock inspector who would leave for weeks unburiedthe carcase of any -animal « Inch had been killed on account of its being affected with tuberculosis would be , guilty of a grave derilection of duty, and the matter should be reported to the head of the Stock department. Young New Zealand.— (l) Will be replied to , next week. (2) The war between Persia and Great Britain was caused by the Persians taking Herat. Herat was conquered by the Persians in the sixteenth century, by the Afghans in 1715, by Nadir Shah in 1731 ; and ' recovered by the Afghcins 1749. The Persians were baffled in an attempt to take it in 1838, but took it on October 25, 185b", in violation of the treaty of 1853, and war was declared between Great Britain and Persia on November 1, 1556. Peace was made in 1857,-and Herat was restored in July following. j T. H., Napier.— Hartley and Reilly's rush oc- • curred in August, 1562. S. T. — Many thanks ; you would see, however, that you were forestalled.

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Otago Witness, Issue 2263, 15 July 1897, Page 46

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NOTES AND QUERIES. Otago Witness, Issue 2263, 15 July 1897, Page 46

NOTES AND QUERIES. Otago Witness, Issue 2263, 15 July 1897, Page 46

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