NOILS AND QUERIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3518, 16 August 1921, Page 35

NOILS AND QUERIES.

Questions for reply in coming issue to be received not later than SATURDAY night. Questions will NOT be replied to through tho post. Constant Reader asks if Samuel Thorn was executed before his employer commuted suicide and the name of Ins employer. James Granville, Thorn's employer and owner of the horse Mickey, was found dead on December 11. Death was caused by gunshot wounds. Tha*n was executed on December 29, 1920. Oi.d-Age Pensioner asks (1) the year the Wairarapa first came to New Zealand; (-) the date an Orient liner sank m Sydney Harbour. (P The Wairarapa first came to New Zealand in 1882. She was launched in Glasgow in May, 1882, arrived m Dunedin, September 14, 1862. (2) Ihe name of the Orient liner which sank m Sydney Harbour while coaling was the Austial. The accident occurred about 29 years back. Ajax writes: I wish to renovate the kitchen of my house with new paper and paint. The room is low and generally dark, so I wish to use a light coloured paint. Tne ceiling is blackened with smoke in places, and the woodwork of the walls is varnished and very ditry. (1) Would I need to clean tkn ceiling before painting? If so, liow 7 would Ido it? (2) Would I need to clean the varnished walls before painting? If so, how would I do it? (3) Would the like of “Hall's Sanitary Paint” do for the kitchen? (4) I have scrubbed some kitchen chairs with caustic soda; what would be the best method to do these —paint, stain, or varnish ? There are still some dark marks on the chairs of some previous paint or varnish. (1) Certainly the ceiling would need cleauihg. I ako a bowl of warm water, add a little turps to the water, a piece of soap, and a fair-sized piece of flannel. Wadi about a yard of the paint at a-time, and rub all the marks till they disappear. Do not let the soap dry on the paint or it will bo streaky. This should thoroughly clean the ceiling. (2) A lot depends on the condition of tho walls, though naturally it would be an improvement to clean them first. A thorough washing should do all that is necessary. (3) It should serve the purpose. (4) Varnish should be sufficient for the chairs. You could stain first and varnish if you wished to be very particular in case the marks show through. Bully Beef asks how to make brine for salting a quarter of beef.— Brine is made as follows: —6ib of salt, lib of suigar, 4oz saltpetre boiled with four gallons of -water, skim, and! allow to cool. This forms, a strong pickle, which will preserve any meat completely immersed in it. To effect this, which is essential, a heavy board or weight must be laid or. the meat. The same pickle may be used repeatedly provided it is boded skimmed, and additional salt to restore its strength. The test for the strength of brine is when a fresh egg floats on it. Mary.—lt is difficult to say what could cause the fermentation in the tomato sauce. It rnav not have been boiled quite long enough. The only remedy we can suggest is that you boil it for a time again. That will remedy matters whatever the cause may have been. Enquirer asks the best oil to use for reel ing a canvas coat. —- —Boiled linseed oil is the. best to use. Amateur warts to know (a) A and B play hockey; A offends three yards outside the coal circle, and B takes a free hit and puts the ball through the goal. Is that a goal or not? —Answer: To score a goal the ball must Ire struck from inside the <■ ic e. (i>) Hus each player to lx; on ins own half of the field at the commencement of each bully in the centre, ar.-l nearer his owl goal line when the bully i« at the 27-yards line? What would a breach of iibcv" be called? Answer: Ye- Such a breach would be called “no bully," and it P'rs. bd in a free hit might be given at the referee's discretion. (e) If ,aui ot the bully men obstructs before the bully is complete, should t*"»y bully again or one side get a free hit?— —Answer ■ Bully again if r fere 7 considers accidental; free hit if intentional. B \N.io. —Mr H. f). Stokes, 15 Park hill avenue, Mornington, ia a teacher of the banjo.

Ex-Otago.—The ship General Grant, from Melbourne to London, with a. cargo oi wool and some passengers, was wrecked on the Auckland Islands in May, 18G6. Ihe wind dying away, the vessel drifted on to the rock-bound coast and soon wrecked. As she rose and fell, the overhanging cuiL drove her masts through the ship’s bottom and she sank. Most of the 13 survivors were rescued after many weary months on the island and brought to Invercargill. The tug Southland, with the General Giant's boatswain on board, was sent to the spot where the wreck occurred, but could find no trace of the vessel. felie backed into the depression in the xocks until the rebound of the waves from the rocks threatened, to overwhelm her. Several expeditions set out later on to try and recover the gold which was on the vessel, but so far as is known no success attended these efforts. No one who had any experience of the fury with which the sea in these waste of waters is dashed against the rocks could reasonably expect much to remain of a wooden vessel after a lapse of years, or even months. “Churchman” and die Sabbath.—Mr Gavin Brighton writes: “You suggest that ‘Churchman’ should submit his query to his church paper. Perhaps ‘Churchman’ may be like myself, claim the Witness or the" Otago Daily Times as his church paper. According lo the way he worded his query you may have answered it. But you make a mistake in saying ilie earliest Christian writers do not identify the Sabbatlr and the Lord’s Day. Ignatius, in his testimony to the Deity of Christ, says: ‘lf then they have indeed cast off their old principles and are come to a new hope in Christ, let them no longer observe the Jewish .Sabbath, but live according to the resurrection of the Lord.’ Is this not identifying the Lord’s Day, the first day of the seven as the so-called Christian Sabbath? Constantine was a pagan monarch. Christians do not keep Sunday a-s a Sabbath just because lie interdicted all work except that which was necessary for the wellbeing of the people. They, as professing Christians, must obey the law of the Land, and, also, es professing Christians must not neglect ‘the assembling o? ourselves together.’ (See Hebrews x. 25.) So, in accordance with the example of the Apostles who met together and our Lord met them. We come together to feast and rejoice in the love of our Lord. On the first day of the week I fancy some of the Seventh Day Sabbatarians have been troubling ‘Churchman,’ and instead of asking. Is there a- Sabbath? it had been decided, to refer the matter to you how was the first day changed into being the Sabbath. Sabbath means rest day, and as a sign between the Jews and Gocl He gave them Ill’s Sabbath to show that He had chosen them. As the Jews made His Sabbath a by-word and> a .e----proach, He said He would do away with it. (See Isaiah i, 13; Hosea 2, 11, 3,4, in fulfilment of which see II Corinthians, 3, 7-end.) Our solvation does not depend on ceremonies and days, but do you believe and obey. (See 1 John ii, 27.” The reply to “Churchman” appearing last week was a very brief summary from Chambers* Cyclopaedia, and answered! the points in his query. Orange asks if the pith from oranges intended for marmalade should be* removed. No ; the oranges should be cut as finely • as possible. The pips are even utilised, as they are put into a little water, separate from the juice and peel, boiled for a time and sir tuned into the preserving pan. August.—Knight and Milliu, 20 G congest reel, Dunedin, would value the work for you.

Subscriber, Riversdale, wishes (1) for cure for greasy heels in horses; and (2) how to cure opossum skins. Under Rural Topics of this week “Agricola” has described treatment of greasy heels. (2) A cure for opossum skins was given in the previous week’s Witness in reply to ii. R. P. Highland Chief, Lake Wakatipu, asks for: (1) Addresses of breeders of pedigree Berkshire pigs, Large Blacks, or Devons nearest to him; (2) if any reader can obLige with Scotch recitation "Buiraies Cuddle Doan.” (1) The Mental Hospitals at Seacliff and Sunnvside, and possibly Mr Fred Duncan (of Duncan, MacGregor, and Co., Dunedin), from his holding in Central Otago, could supply you. {'2) You refer no doubt to Alexander Anderson’s (“Surfaceman ) “Cuddle Docrn,” of some eight verses. Failing buying the book of poems you had better look it up at the library, as it is too long to give it here. A Settler, Greenfield.—Mr 11. M. Davey replies: To your bag you might mix two cubic feet of clean, sharp sand and, say, four cubic feet- of metal or clean shingle. You may place clean, wet stones where there i 3 an opportunity, the rougher the surface of them is tlie better. For many uses rather more than the four cubic feet of metal is used, but for your purpose it would be inadvisable to make a weak mixture. Bo sure that it dries as slowly us possible, continual wet bags over the block is the best, thing, for. curiously, the we.ter the mass is kept, the harder it becomes, especially keep the sun off it tilt it is set. Miner, Kurow.— Mr H. M. Davey, consulting engineer, 61 Frederick street, replies : You tell me so much apparently, yet so little in reality, so all that can be said is that if the pipe, which you say is seven feet long, is jnade to a gradual taper from the 6-inch line to the nozzle, then it is all right, but if it is suddenly contracted that is a big fault, but it may perhaps not be the only one, for what about the inlet at the top end of the 800 feet of pipes ? JVliat size is it? And how is the water Conducted into it ? Then, finally, how much water do you use? Ur, if you cannot tell, then wliat power do you need? Or what do you drive? Now you have tried different sizes of nozzles, which was the best? Please xoplv. LAW QUERIES. [Answered by a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. Letters and Telegrams must be addressed to “LEX,” c/o Editor, Otago Witness, Dunedin.] Farmer. —Under the circumstances stated in your letter, the farmer lias no legal remedy against the agent. Clutha. —The mortgagee is entitled to call up his mortgage and the mortgage h not protected by the Mortgages Extension Acts. Farmer. — You arc legally entitled to cut down the branches overhanging your property and rise, them for your own purposes. Thirteen Years’ Reader. —C has no right to carry his drainage through the adjoining; properties. You should see the local authority with regard to the matter. Inquirer.— il) By inquiring at the Supremo Court Ofuco in the district ill which the deceased person resided you can obtain a copy of the will of the deceased person on paying tho necessary fee. (2; The Land Board has sole discretion iu the mutter.

M.—(l) You a.re only entitled to keep fowls in accordance with the city -by-laws. They must be kept at least 20 feet from your neighbour’s property. (2) The question is one for the magistrate. If your grievance is merely a fanciful one, you have no remedy at law. Ashburton. —Everyone is liable to If years’ imprisonment with hard labour who diminishes or lightens any current gold or silver coinf, with intent that when so dealt with it may pass as current gold or silver coin. Puzzled.—(l: If the work was undertaken under the Land Drainage Act, the board may charge the owners of the adjoining lands with the expense of keeping the channel clean. (2) The adjoining landowner at his own expense will require to keep the gorse grubbed to 1 lie centre of the road.