NOTES AND QUERIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2369, 27 July 1899, Page 46

NOTES AND QUERIES.

Questions for reply in coming istue to Be received not later than MONDAY night. Subscriber, Wellington. — The Bengal HerV s " chant sailed from, the Clyde on October 31, 1839, with 150 emigrants for New Zealand. She landed on February 10, 1840. The Bengal Merchant was followed by the Cuba, the Aurora, the Oriental, and the Adelaide, from Gravesend. llfl-C+V"^" Burn Brae.— The title of Mr D. M'Kee Wright's book is '" Station Ballads and Other Rhymes." The price is 2s 9d posted, the publisher being Mr J. G. Sawell (Wise's), Princes street. Art Union. — You will find the result of the art union in connection with St. Patrick's Basilica, Oamaru, on page 32 of our issixe of June 15 last. Macpherson's Last Bide. — Please send your address to Mr E. Pitches, Kichmond Station, Tekapo, Mackenzie Country. A. H. — (1) Yoxj do not say what variety of palms, but with your hotbed wo do not see that you need have nriicli difficulty. The main thing to be aimed at is to avoid sudden variations of temperature, and guard against the seedlings being scorched when the sun strengthens. (2) In raising tree seeds, shade is the chief desideratum. A thin shade of canvas on a skeleton frame is the best form to take, or a covering of scrub over the seed bed. Seeds take some time to swell after being put in the ground, hence it is desirable to put in as early as possible. If they fail to appear this spring, examine, and if found with fresh kernels, keep the beds weeded and shaded till the following season. (3) Yes, Carter's daisy is considered a very good early pea. (4) You will experience considerable difficulty in striking cuttings of the Erica pyramidalis. You might try a few slips under a bell glass in gentle heat as soon as you like, but it will be as well to be prepared for failure. (5) There are two papers at Grafton, N.S.W. — the Grafton Argus knd the Clarence | and Richmond River Examiner. Sub. — Mr Beverly kindly replies: — You do not describe the wheel properly. If it is an ordinary overshot wheel 20ft diameter, 3ft wide, witli lOin shrouding, it will carry 8 heads of water, giving 12-h.p. ; but it may be worked with 5 heads, giving 7-h.p. Rate of revohition about 7 per minute. The general rate of sawing lumber into lin boards is about 30ft per h.p. per hour, or with 7-h.p., 1700 ft per day o? <>ight hours. Constant Reader. — Mr Beverly replies: — In the patent blind roller the weight of the blind becomes less as the spring gets weaker. To apply this plan to lifting a weight, you would have to wind the lifting cord on to a conical drum with a spiral groove, so as to j equalise the rate of motion and the strength of the spring. About 80ft of Jin soft steel wire made into a spiral, and a drum 4in diameter tapering to 2in would be sufficient to lift 20lb 3ft. If tempered steel were used, the wire and the drum might be reduced, say, the wire l-sin and the drum 3in tapering to Ihin. A H. — A wife's personal earnings and property acquired thereby are her own, and she can dispose of such property either by will or otherwise without the consent of the husband. Novice. — Upon the application of a licensee of land for occupation with the right of purchase at any time after the expiration of 10 years of the term of his license, but before the expiry thereof, he becomes entitled to a Crown grant upon payment of the cash price, provided all the- conditions of the license have been fulfilled. W. B. — It is not lawful to turn out stock upon a public road or a railway line. Ixquiker. — Your question is not easily understood. You ask (1) Can a vendor compel the purchaser to transfer a property when there ia nothing mentioned in the agreement of sale. It lies with the vendor to transfer, and you probably mean " Can a purchaser compel a vendor to transfer a property to a ! purchaser? " the answer to which is that the purchaser can compel a vendor to transfer the property, the costs of the transfer J being payable by the purchaser. \2) If the j purchaser buys a property free from encumbrances, all rates, and charges will be ascertained up to the date of the purchase, and the purchaser will have to pay his portion. Should the purchaser not accept a transfer ho will nevertheless be liable to pay all rates, taxes, etc., accruing after the date of the purchase. Tory. — (1) The committee may elect a chairman from among themselves, who will coni tinue in office for the remainder of the year. (2) The chairman has a deliberative and a casting vote." G. G. S. — We cannot learn of any map of the Shetland Islands being obtainable here, except in an atlas. A separate map could, no . doubt, ha obtained from Home were you to I leave a deposit with a Dunedin bookseller.