Answers to the problems published in our issue of 6th inst. have been received from G.A.L., Victoria Bridge. We reprint the originals, together with the replies In the first and, second, O.A.L, is correct; in the third, not so ; while in the fourth our correspondent has made so very natural a guess that we are inclined to think the expounder is a young lady, who will probably gain experience : My first in air is sometimes seen. Though often in the street; If o’er a farm you hap to stroll, My second you will meet. Of gold if you my third do get, A rich man you will be, And luckier far than any one My whole has chanced to see. — Canickton. Why is a disinherited son like a baloonlst ?—Because he’s an heir-o’-nought. My first and second you will find in ten • Guess right, you’ll prove my third ; Neither hot nor strong, yet not to be held Is my whole,—pray take my word ! — lntenable, .When is a war like a wedding?— When it is maritime. O.A.L. submits the following Why are Sir Julius Vogel and the Tichborne claimant like a range of mountains near Lake Wftkatipu ?
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Cromwell Argus, Volume VI, Issue 311, 27 October 1875, Page 6
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