THE OTAGO WITNESS Cross-Word Puzzles

Otago Witness, Issue 3713, 12 May 1925, Page 46

THE OTAGO WITNESS Cross-Word Puzzles

ANOTHER PRIZE OF FIVE GUINEAS FOR FIRST CORRECT SOLUTION. The following Puzzle contains references to advertisements in our issue of April 28, and a prize of Five Guineas will be given to the sender of the first correct solution opened after midnight on FRIDAY, May 22. 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. 3. Fill in the words of the Solution upon this diagram, add your name and address, cut from the paper, and send in as directed.

Name (Mrs, Miss, or Mr) Address (Write plainly.) DEFINITIONS. ACROSS. DOWN.

Acuusa. 1. H.B. make these suits. 4. Named on page 55. 10 A succulent indehiscent fruit. 12. Good for sunburn or irritation. 14. A chemical orchard spray. 17. To angle with a bob. 18. The founder of “Priests of the Oratory.” 19. The initials of an English language society. 21. A nocturnal bird. 23. A participial suffix. £4. A correlative negative conjunction. 25. A Turkish official title. 27. A brand of motor spirit. 28. An Indian silkworm. 29. Good for goitre. 30. Expression of assent. 31. A temperance society. 32. A brand of cartridges. 33. A possessive pronoun. 34. To knock. 35. Of the same kind. 36. A eucharistic vessel. 38. Grandchildren (Scotch). 40. To turn to the left. 43. One of a European people. 45. Alias. 47. Consul-general, 49. Exclamation of disgust. 50. An Australian State (abb.). 51. Overtime. 54. The yellow-tufted honey-eater. 55. Blackthorn berries. A|. A volatile glazing flux. 68. T-& take off an assessment. 60. Upright. 61. A Mexican silver coin. 64. A mixed colour. 65. A plural pronoun. 66. Uncle (South African). 67. Mastic. 68. To refrigerate. 70. A stringed instrument. 71. Toward—a suffix. 72. Holding honorary rank, 74. TitillaUve irritations. 76. A paper folders’ suffix. 77. Judicial terms. 78. In a line.

DOWN. 2. In the year of discovery (init.). 3. To send a cablegram. 4. Changeableness. 5. A prefix. 6. Overseers. 7. An edible vegetable. ”8. A Homan exclamation of exultation. ;e 9. A brand of flashlight. 10. Unsteady or fickle. 11. Go on (music). 13. A Memphite god. 14. The assumed cause of mesmerism. 16. A genus of common flowers. 20. Impressionable. 22 For what cause? 26. A perfect work of art. 34. A brand of shotgun 37. The Persian gazelle. 38. A presage uttered unawares. 39. The highest note in Guido’s musical scale. 41. Since. 42. Relative pronoun. 44. Bedroom draperies. 45. Suffix of nativity. 46. Heeds. 47. A variety of petrolatum. 48. Rubbers 49. A town in the south of Iceland. 52. To meke sour. 53. A solmization note. 55. For ascending or descending. 57. Whom Duncan and Simpson cater for. 58. One of the three Fates (Norse). 59. One way of voting 62. A Norse god. 63. To loiter. 69. The dav before. 71. A mocking exclamation 72. Town in Bratsberg co., Norway, 73. A plural suffix. 75. Thereabouts.

The solution and award will be published on May 26, along with No. 4 of this series.

Keep this issue of the Otago Witness—certain words appearing in the advertisements will be incorporated in Cross-Word Puzzle Competition No. 4. Next week, non-competitive Cross-Word Puzzle No. 3 will be published. The Prize of Five Guineas for the solution of Competition No. 2 has been awarded to— Mr Norman Brown, 32 Albert Street, St. Clair, Dunedin.

COMPETITION No. 2.

SOLUTION

COLONIAL SUGAR COMPANY. SYDNEY, May 6. At the half-yearly meeting of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company the chairman said that there would be a large exportable surplus if the mills were able to crush cane. Most of the surplus was already sold. For the half year ended March 31 the net profit was £435,675, com pared with £324,978 for the previous half year. The latest earnings were made up of £281,624 from the Australian mills and refineries and other investments subject to Federal taxation and £154,051 represented earnings in New Zealand, Fiji and other investments not subject to Federal taxation. A dividend at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum for the half year absorbs £243,750 and a bonus of 6s per share takes £60,938. A hundred thousand was placed to the reserve fund and the balance carried forward. THE BUDGET. LONDON, May 9. Mr Lloyd George at the National Liberal Club opened an anti-Budget attack in a speech bristling with all the oldtime sparkle. He' admitted that he admired the Chancellor’s brilliant mind. It was so brilliant as to dazzle the owner’s judgment. The fact was that one of the Chancellor’s troubles was that his headlights were blinding and made it difficult for him to avoid smashing into the traffic. During the war the golden calf was locked away in a cupboard. Mr Churchill had opened it with an American key and polished the image with burnishing rhetoric, and now the Valhalla of Wall street «vas twanging golden harps with joy. Mr Churchilis fine financial proposals were in grave danger of being strangled by a silken cord. Ho should have paid the pensions scheme by not reducing the supertax. LONDON BURGLARY GANG. LONDON, May 6. A motor-car, with five occupants, was observed by the police at Stroud travelling in the direction,of Panswick at midnight. The men answered the description of the gang wanted in connection with the recent burglaries in Gloucester. The police secured a motor-car, pursued, and met the gang returning from Panswick, where a garage had been broken into. ‘The gang’s car swerved to avoid a collision ana overturned. Three of the occupants escaped and two others were pinned under the wreckage and killed. A quantity of stolen goods was found in the car. The police are scouring the wooded Cotswold Hills in a search for the others. Three of the Stroud fugitives were arrested when hiding beneath a hedge near Painswick. They are aged 19. 19. and 17 respectively. The two who wero killed weTe aged 26 nnd 24. All five belonged to Camberwell, London. BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES. LONDON, May 5. The Ambassador, Mr Alanson B. Houghton, was a guest at the Pilgrim Club banquet, when there was a big gathering of ambassadors and notabilities. Mr Baldwin, in proposing Mr Houghton’s health, emphasised the necessity of preventing the misunderstandings between Britain and America. The danger was greater because they had a common tongue. With foreign countries asides uttered by individuals, or the press, and veiled in the obscurity of an unknown language had to be hunted up and translated, and in the

translation they lost what the Americans called pep. But foolish words uttered on either side of the Atlantic, not needing translation, were cabled in their naked crudity, and they might rankle. Mr Houghton, replying. sa ; d that * f-.1l measure of American helpfulness in Europe could only be given wiien America -as assured that the time of destructive policies had passed. The time of peaceful building up would come if Europe said “Peace.** America would then help to her utmost. LORD LEVERHULME DEAD. LONDON, May 7. The death is announced of Lord Leverhulms from inflammation of the lungs. Lord Leverhulme, is the first Viscount, which was created in 1922. He was 73 years of age. He was chairman of Lever Bros., Ltd., the world-famous soap manufacturers. He was the founder of Port Sunlight. In 1874 he married Elizabeth Ellen, daughter of Crompton Hulme, of Bolton. He has one son, the Hon. W. H. Lever. Lady Leverhulme died after a brief illness m July, 1913. The deceased represented the Wirral division of Cheshire in Parliament 1906-10. He was junior warden for the Grand Lodge of England in 1918; Mayor of Bolton in 1918-19. He purchased the Isle of Lewes in 1918 and another island in 1919. A splendid art gallery in memory of his wife was opened at Port Sunlight in December, 1923. He presented Stafford House to the nation in 1913. in 1913. He visited New Zealand last year, and on his return Home made a gift of pictures to the Sarjent Art Uallery, Wanganui. REVISION OF PRAYER BOOK. MELBOURNE, May 7. At the Australian Congress of the Anglican Church addresses concerning the **evision of the prayer-book were delivered by the Dean of Bristol (England), nnd the Very Reverend E. Burroughs. The Rev. Burroughs, who was one of the six members in charge of the Prayer Book Revision when it came before the House of Clergy in 1923, said that the question had first arisen out of a Royal Commission on ecclesiastical discipline in 1908. The inadequacy of the sixteenth century forms and language, the necessity tor softening hard lines, the reformation of theology and consequent rules and prohibitions, were recognised by the Commission, but it desired no alteration in doctrinal balance or scope. These proposals had changed beyond recognition in the measure that came before the Church Assembly in 1923. The Dean of Bristol dealt with the crucial position created by the demind for the reservation of the sacrament. “We have been pushed, step by step, to a position,” he said, “which, although not so intended, can. in fact, be made to cover perpetual reservation. The sting lies in the fact that the Anglo-Catholic leaders have told us that the adoration is their ulimate aim. Many of us are now won dering if we ought not to move back Hid say that there should be no revision if it was only a cloak for reaction.” In conclusion, he appealed to his hearers in their attitude upon the question to be, and to remain, British. SHIPPING DEPRESSION. LONDON, May 5. A surprise has been created in business circles by the issue of an orcter by the Chancery division for the appointment of a receiver-manager for the great Cardiff concern, the Gould Steamship and Industrials, Ltd. The Company's authorised

capital is three millions sterling and half a million sterling debentures have been issued. The apjuication was made with the company’s consent on behalf of the Eagle Star and British Dominions Insurance Company, trustees for the debenture holders. The business is being carried on for the benefit of the shareholders. Mr J. C. Gould, who is an ex-member of the House of Commons and is the governing director, had a remarkable career. He is the son of a working man. lie went to South Africa as an ordinary seaman, but left tre ship there and worked as a clerk. He then went to the United States, where he was employed successively as a labourer and an insurance clerk. He studied insurance and became the head of the largest New York marine reinsurance company. He established, in 1908, a reinsurance firm in London, with branches throughout the Continent When the war ruined reinsurance he became a shipbrokcr and shipowner. Through his knowledge of Continental reinsurance ramifications he revealed how Germany was learning from this source about snipping movements. The company is the victim of the world slump and the continued shipping depression.