PRIZE CONUNDRUMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 840, 21 July 1879, Page 2

PRIZE CONUNDRUMS.

Th£ editor and proprietor of the Blenheim Express lately offered a prize of five guineas for the best conundrum forwarded to the paper. The subjoined are some ; a few fairly good, which we give ; the others unintelligible to us here, because of being stricly local m their application. These we do not give, although they may be much better than those we print ;— - . : Why may it be said that the contractors for the railway extension have performed a feat that there is not a sewing machine m all New Zealand could do ?— Because they have felled the trees near where Mr. Fell resides. ■ What is the difference between the Pioton volunteers when volunteering for "the front," and Professor Darwin's principle of evolution I—One;1 — One; goes forward to a man, the other backward to a monkey. . ■' .'" J ' : ' : Which bar m or near Blenheim supplies the most wholesome mid sparkling drinks.?— The Wairau River bar. Why should Blenheim be envied by all other towns m the colony I— Because all its banking business, law, justice, and the public press are done on the square. When the little boy had been reading about the natives fighting, what river m the Wairau did he name m his exclamation to his parent I Oh Pa, war (Opawa). Why are the images m front of the Government Buildings like undischarged bankrupts?— lt is an object of tune (clock) they want over their heads,' to oomplete the arrangement. What heavenly thing and what earthly thing does a dull rainy day have effect upon I— The sun and your boots, it takes the shine out of both. What are the points of difference between the steamer Napier and the Banks of New Zealand?— The Napier sorews outwards, the Banks of New Zealand sorew inwards.