MOTES AND QUERIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2389, 14 December 1899, Page 46

MOTES AND QUERIES.

Questions for reply in coming issue to be received •I-* later than MONDAY night.

Vatxey. — The cost'of a deed of gift is a little moro than that of an ordinary conveyance, 'and depends upon the value and cxtmt of the property, the state of the title, and the amount of duty and registration fees payabb. This will be £o or £6 at the least. BbY._.j^ father is not bouiltl to pay his son or daughter wages under any "circumstances whatever. Tf a father promises to pay wages fov services rendered by a child he may be bound to ppy, but not unless he. expressly „ gives such a^ promise. On the other" hand, a father has v no legal right to wages earned by his- children. Mask. — Indentures must be stamped. They are usually prepared in duplicate, and one kept by each party. The paypient is a matter of arrangement. , Premiums were abolished by an act passed on the 21st October last. Sawdust, Catlins.— Mr Thomas Mackenzie supported the Atkinson Government ju 18S7, so that he has been consistent in his adherence to the one parly during the whole of his political career. Subscriber, Ahuriri. — Mr Beverly kindly replies: An overshot wheel 10ft diameter, 2ft wide, with Sin shrouding, and making 11 revolutions per minute, will carry four, heads of water, and give 3 h.p. Interested Athlete.— Certainly not elan-air g. Let us "know the date of the competition and we shall look it up' for you. H. "W. S. — Platinum is w,orth aDO ut 47s 6d per ounce. J- W. — We do not insert letters which have •ippeared in contemporaries. Sandhurst Cadet.— When the Birkenhead foundered off the Cape of Good Hope she han detachments of the 2th Lancers, 2nd, 6th, 12th, i3rd, 45th, and 60th Rifles, 73rd, 74th, and 91st Regiments on board. Of 638 persons, only 184 were saved. She was bound from Queenstown for the Cape. We do not know the name of the commander of the Birkenhead. Britisiie3. — Payment of the honorarium commences from the date of election.