THE OTAGO WITNESS Cross-Word Puzzles

Otago Witness, Issue 3711, 28 April 1925, Page 46

THE OTAGO WITNESS Cross-Word Puzzles

ANOTHER PRIZE OF FIVE GUINEAS FOR FIRST CORRECT SOLUTION.

As announced in a former issue, it is intended to publish fortnightly a Cross-Word Puzzle incorporating words connected with several of the advertisements in the Otago Witness of given dates. The following Puzzle contains references to advertisements in our issue of April 14, and a prize of Five Guineas will be given to the sender of the first correct solution opened after midnight on FRIDAY, May 8. The rules governing the Competition are as follow: (1) The competition is limited to regular subscribers who are at present on our books or the books of our agents, or who become subscribers. (2) No employee of the Otago Daily Times and Witness Company is eligible to compete. (3) Each solution must be written plainly in “printed” letters upon the white squares of the Puzzle as published, cut from the paper with its title and number, and with, the name and address of the solver written upon the lines provided, addresed to the Editor, Cross-Word Puzzles Competition, Otago Witness, Box 181, C.P.0., Dunedin. (4) The first correct solution opened after the time specified will be awarded the prize offered. (5) Competitors must accept the decision of the Editor as final. (6) No correspondence will be answered on the subject of the Cross-Word Puzzle Competition. COMPETITION No. 2. Fill in the words of the Solution upon this diagram, add your name and address, cut from the paper, and send in as directed.

CROSS-WORD PUZZLE COMPETITION No . 2. Name (Mrs, Miss, or Mr) Address (Write plainly.)

DEFINITIONS.

ACROSS. 1. A kind of lily. 6. Advertised by 22 Down. 10. At no time. 11. The surname of one of R. D. Blackmore’s heroines. 12. Awry. 14. Metric unit of length. 16. To strip off the husk. 17. The command to a horse to go to the •right. 19. A Dunedin sports-ground. 21. A Hebrew high priest. 22. A roundelay. 26. Epoch. 27. Place famed for rugs. 29. Covered with pasture herbage. 31. Up above. 32. Between marquis and viscount. 33. Part of a circle. 34. A worthless dog. 36. A primitive tribe of Central India. 39. A township 84 miles north from Auckland. 42. A digestive ferment. 44. Instigated. 47. A famous Turkish pasha. 48. Pertaining to an ancient city, now named Urfa. 50. Crass cut and dried. 51. A small piece of ground. 53. A rodent infesting barns. 54! According to fact. 55. English kidney-beans. 58. Edible tropical roots. 60. A prominent constellation. 61. Stood up. 62. An item of property. 63. Animals that benefit by “Ovolis. 1 * 'llie solution and award will with No. 3 of this series.

DOWN. 2. A George street firm. 3. Girl (Provincial). 4. The all-mother. 5. To sift. 6. A common prefix. 7. On page 75. 8. To the inside. 9. Slee page 61, column 5, end of a line. 12. Ah ancient Greek flute. 13. A vile resort. 15. Tilled with a plough. 16. Border of a garment. 17. Swallow eagerly. 18. To sharpen. 20. Stripling. 22. Another George st. firm (hardware). 23. Township 18 miles from Hawera. 24. An age. 25. Made of a European timber. 28. Costumes. 30. A furrow with running water. 35. “Columbia” batteries for these. 37. A great country in Asia (Poet.). 38. Sly oblique look. 39. The 19th century. 40. An instrument used instead of a sextant. 41. Dandies. 42. Soft stuff. 43. Begg and Co.’s goods. 45. A raised seat. 46. Colour. 49. A cutting instrument. 52. Jacks. 54. The largest plant. 56. Disarranged type. 57. A stupid person. 58. A poetic assertion. 59. A European tree. be published on May 12, along

Keep this issue of the Otago Witness—certain words appearing in the advertisements will be incorporated in Cross-Word Puzzle Competition No. 3. Next week, non-competitive Cross-Word Puzzle No. 3 will be published. The prize of Five Guineas for the solution of Competition No. 1 has been awarded to Mr Arthur Orr, Totara P.O, (near Oamaru). COMPETITION No. 1. SOLUTION.

Ramsay MacDonald and Zaghlul members of the Vengeance Society, called “The Redeemers,” met at the house of Chafik Mansour, who was a deputy, and decided upon a political murder, and the Sirdar was chosen as the victim. Rashid committed the murder, assisted by five others, Chafik agreeing that political assassination would help the independence movement. Chafik, however, now declares that the murder was only decided upon in principle at his house. * He says that he always feared that the crime would endanger Egypt. In view of the confessions the trial should begin in the middle of May and last only a few days. Thus far 150 persons have ben arrested on suspicion. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. PARIS, April 20. The judicial section of the International Wireless Congress resolved that the right to intellectual property, recognised by the International Convention at Berne, applies to the wireless diffusion of all intellectual works. It also approved of a series of recommendations by which specific wavelengths should be assigned to amateurs in different regions, with a view to obviating the -confusion caused by similarity of wave-lengths A sub-committee suggested the following wave-lengths, which are slightly different from those already cabled:—Europe. 115 to 95, 75 to 70, and 47 to 43; Canada, 120 to 115 and 46 to 41.5; the United States, 85 to 75 and 41.5 to 37.3; the rest of the world, 96 to 85 and 37.5 to 35. The Amateur Radio Congress elected Mr Hiram Maxim president. Mr Frank Bell (New Zealand) was elected to the committee. Vie adopted Esperanto as an Mitiiary taugoage, though the Scandinavians favoured English. Mr Hiram Maxim is an inventor and engineer, and a son of the late Sir Hiram Maxim, the inventor of the famous auto*

matic quick-firing gun. Mr Frank Bell, of Waihemo Station, has had great success in his radio communication experiments. EARL JELLICOE ENTERTAINED. LONDON, April 22. Earl Jellicoe was entertained by the Colonial Institute at the Grocers’ * Hall. It was one of the largest functions of recent years, the company including a representative of Mr Amery, Mr W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore, and Sir James Allen. Sympathetic references were made to Mr Massey, Mr Ormsby-Gore eulogising him as a man who had contributed as much as anyone to the councils of the Empire. Earl Jellicoe, responding to the toast of his health, declared that his work in New Zealand had been rendered easy by his'predecessors. He regretted that he had gone to New Zealand 60 years too late. He claimed that the dominion led the way in the preference, old-age pensions, industrial arbitration courts, and also with its wartime contingents. He mentioned Mr Lloyd George’s Chanak telegram which had been received in Wellington at 7.45 in the evening during an investiture. A Cabinet meeting was immediately held and a reply despatched at 9.30 the same evening. He was most proud of his connection with New Zealand and his one wish was to visit the dominion as soon as family ties permitted. Lord Jellicoe concluded with a feeling reference to Mr Massey’s illness, and expressed hopes for his restoration to Health. * BY AIR TO NEW ZEALAND. LONDON, April 23. Only three intermediate stations are necessary for an airship service between England and New Zealand, for the shortest time with a full load. Commander Burney told the Institute of Aeronautical Engineers. The most favourable stations would be Bagdad, Colombo, and Fre-

mantle or Perth. An airship capable of a maximum of SO miles an hour could average 70 miles an hour. April 25. Commander Burney, in a paper on the airship in aerial transport, read before the Institution of Aeronautical Engineers, discussing the effect of tropical weather on an airship’s life, said it would not be a serious matter because only three intermediate stations would need to be made on the England to New Zealand route. Subject to commercial considerations these stopping places should, as nearly as possible, be upon the arc of a great circle drawn between two termini. It would be found that the most favourable positions would be Bagdad, Colombo, and Fremantle or Perth. On such a route it should be possible, assaiming the airship’s maximum speed to be 90 miles an hour, for an average of 70 miles an hour to be maintained. Thus the time of the flight would be, from England to Bagdad, 37 hours; Bagdad to Colombo, 41 hours; Colombo to Perth, 51 hours; Perth to Wellington, 38 hours. Allowing for los3 of time and refuelling at Bagdad and Colombo, the trip from England to Fremantle should be achieved in six and a-half days. THE BLACKBALLER MURDER. LONDON, April 21. Mary Rich, a domestic servant, told the magistrate that Rhodes on the eve of the murder remarked, “I am going to do in Grace Blaekaller and myself, because she is fooling me about.” Just before the fatal meeting Rhodes tapped his waistcoat pocket, saying, “The razor is in here ” Witness replied, “Don’t be silly.” Next morning she found Rhodes crying in the kitchen. He said, “You will see in Saturday’s newspapers what I’ve done'.” Rhodes’s sister screamed when she was called into the witness box. Sneaking hysterically she said that Rhodes received an injury to his head in infancy,

which- had never properly closed. He had consulted several specialists in Germany, where the family was living in 1917. He was the butt of his schoolmates because he was all right one day and silly the next. April 22. At the inquest on Grace Blaekaller the deceased’s sister said she wished to correct a previous statement that the deceased was John Blackaller’s youngest daughter. She was Mrs Blackaller’s illegitimate daughter, and she was born after Blackaller’s death. Mrs Blaekaller admitted that Grace was born six or seven years after her first husband’s death. Mrs Jones gave evidence that Grace was the daughter ol her husband, who died a decade ago. She was separated from her husband for four years preceding Grace’s birth. The Coroner in summing up said the case threw a peculiar fight on the social conditions of certain classes (perhaps all classes) in modem days. It was a tragedy of parental neglect exhibited in an extreme character, and what was called the emancipation of the sexes. He returned a verdict of wilful murder by Rhodes. EXECUTION OF THORNE. LONDON, April 22. Thome was executed at Wandsworth gaol. A smile played on his features whilst the warders pinioned his arms. Ho walked to the scaffold quickly and firmly. Norman Thome was hanged at 8 o’clock this morning in Wandsworth Prison. Ho faltered momentarily when he caught sight of the execution shed, but he walked unassisted to the scaffold. The execution was tile most rapid in the memory of the officials, being completed iu 10 seconds. There was an unusual incident at the formal inquest after the execution, A

juror asked whether Thorne had made any confession on the scaffold. The Governor of the prison replied: “I have no authority to answer the question.” The Coroner: “That means that you are forbidden to answer. There is no question of authority to answer questions put by a coroner's jury!” The Governor: “I have received instructions authorising me to say that I am not in a position to answer.” The Coroner: “So the public, represented by the jury, are not to know whether Thome made a confession?” The Governor: “I am only able to repeat that I am not authorised to reply.” The jury returned the usual verdict. April 23. Apropos of the question at the inquest on Thome, Sir W. Jovnson-Hicks (Home Secretary), in an interview with the Daily Express, explained why the Home Office does not publish confessions by those persons who are cinvicted of murder. He said that some make a full written confession which comes to the Home Secretary. Others make a statement to the prison governor, stipulating that confidence must be observed. Others again confess to a clergyman, which is a sacred matter about which nothing can be said. Regarding the first cases mentioned the person’s statement might contain only half the facts. Often the condemned person makes a statement in order to relieve his feelings, but wishes to keep the truth from his relatives. There was a case recently in which a married man made a statement on the explicit understanding that his wife should never know. The Home Office view was that a man having been convicted, this w r as the right course. ZEEBRUGGE MEMORIAL. BRUSSELS, April 23. The arrival of a distinguished party at Brughes from England, including Sir Roger and Lady Keyes, the Earl and Countess of Cavan, Sir Fabian and Lady Ware, and Lord Burnham, marks the beginning of several days of Anglo-Belgian demonstrations, the central item of which will be the unveiling by King Albert of an imposing memorial at Zeebmgge on the anniversary of the attack on the mole. April 24. In cloudy, threatening weather the cruiser Caledon, bringing 250 heroes who took part in the historic attack, arrived from Dover and exchanged salutes with the batteries on shore and the ships in the harbour. There was an imposing scene around the memorial, which is a 70ft granite column surmounted by figures of St. George and the dragon, and bearing an inscription: “St. George for England.” A large force of Belgian troops, in tin helmets, and Belgian bluejackets were drawn up on each side. The King and Queen of the Belgians arrived from Brussels and laid a wreath inscribed, “Albert and Elizabeth,” at the foot of the monument. After the unveiling of the memorial King Albert, speaking first in French and then in English, paid homage to the incomparable heroes whose feat of arms would rank among the highest records in the British Navy. Lord Emmott (chairman of the Zeebrugge Memorial Fund), replying, mentioned that the memorial was erected by the joint efforts of Belgian and British donors, including inhabitants of the British dominions and possessions overseas, who were among the most considerable contributors. A heavy rainstorm occurred during the speeches and the ceremony. LONDON, April 24. Before the arrival of the King and Queen of Belgium, the survivors from the Caledon marched along the beflagged mole to the monument and were frantically cheered, especially by the invalids, many of whom were limping, supported by sticks. King Albert, In a khaki uniform with the crimson sash of the Order of the Bath, when unveiling the memorial, was saluted by the guns of the Caledon, ajid by the shore batteries. The British and Belgian bands played the respective National Anthems. At the conclusion of the speeches the British sailors and members of the British and Belgian societies laid wreaths on the memorial.