THE RIDDLER.

Otago Witness, Issue 2320, 18 August 1898, Page 38

THE RIDDLER.

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BSOI Ciur.ADr :—

Fou'sts, find vrooils, and flowery fields My first in rich profusion yields. When first doth last and make my whole, Men tremble— every human roul ; For every dead and living speck Is then pionounced a total wieck. BSOI. Decapitation : - ]. la a restaurant this may be seen. ° "Down mountains this runs, and between, a. Most this avoid whene'. r they cm, There's iii good in it tor a nun. SBOO. Charade : - If you a maid «.hould love ?.n r J win You'll offer mst a second ; ll v whole's a dwellei in the deep, Who's cheap and tas'y reckoned. 8803 K.viuma :— If I were to say That, every dny, My lirat and my last avA the same, I might be correct ; But toy fit>t might object— Wtio Knows the tieiee mariner's name?

Ajiswer 1 * to Riddles PuSjlisheii Aug. 4« 579-i. Musical Double Acrostic:— S emiquaver S I Dtroi T It os a J uss £ O rga W II andl E N limbo 11 8795. Charade:— Headache. 879 G. Hidden- Scottish Author:— Sir Walter Scott—" Rob Roy" aHd "Tha Lady of the Lake."

The narrowness of some of the Wellington btreets is thus explained by the mayor: — " The New Zealand Company had offered as an inducement to immigration a towu acre and a country section, and had also been constrained by some influence or other to grant another 100 acres to the Maoris. When they came to make a survey they found they, hadn't got enough land, and they had to take it off the streets."