OUR PUZZLE

Observer, Volume 1, Issue 11, 27 November 1880, Page 91

OUR PUZZLE

COMPETITION, No. 5. W. Whitaker, Makarau Bush, Kaipam, £1 Is. 0 COMPETITION, No. 7. J. M. Geddes, Auckland 10s 6d The other successful competitor has not forwarded his name. COMPETITION, No. 8. Only a very few answers have been sent in to compete for this. Set 1, No. 1, are immeasurably the best. Kindly forward name and address. samples of answersno. L— SET I. 1. The most effectual way of silencing a bore. 2. The neatest and most original way of popping the question. 3. The best practical joke of a harmless character, 4. The wittiest saying on a social subject. 5. The best condensed novel (not to exceed — lines). 6. The neatest verse for a Christinas or New Year's card, SET 11. 1. The best illustration (size — inches) of the words " The way she caught him." 2. The most suitable dress in the summer months— (a) for a lady, and (b) for a gentleman. 3. The best menu for a Christmas dinner in New Zealand. 4. Who is the happiest (a) man and (b) woman in New Zealand, and why ? 5. The best scries of pictorial puns on the words,—" De gustibus non est disputandum." 6. The best exiigram re Hanlan and Trickett. No. 2. 1. A prize of one guinea for the best local verse ; the first letter of the first word in each line to commence with the letters of the word Observer in succession. 2. A prize, &c., for the best original composition of music, four parts, set to the following words: (The words to be selected by the editor.) 3. A prize, &c, for the best three lines on any subject (rhyme preferred), to read with sense from the first word to the last, and vice versa from the last word back to the first. 4. A prize, &c, for the best pictorial sentence indicating some local event. (Answer attached of course.) 5. A prize, &c, for the best caricature of a local worthy to be fixed by the editor. 6. A prize, &c, for the best short original story, suitable for the novelist column. COMPETITION, No. 9 AND LAST. This Competition— Two Guineas for the bost oaricature of a looal worthy— closes to-day,