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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2852, 20 March 1888, Page 3

The Chinese residents of Greymoulh gave a vocal and instrumental concert the other night in aid of the funds of the local hospital, and handed over to the trustees the sum of £34. The following problems were propounded at a University wine party by a now wellk nown senior wrangler; —'•Suppose three snakes, each of which is swallowing another by the tail so that the three form a circle—j: tlttas the swallowing process continues tblrarcle evidently grows smaller and smaller. Now, if they thus oontinue io swallow each other, what will eventually come of the snakes?" Again; —" A man walks round a pole on the top of which is a monkey, As the man moves, the monkey turns round on the top of the pole so as still to keep fuco to face with the man. Query; When the man has gone round the pole, has he, or has he not, gone round the monkey V The h'vst query still remains unsolved. With regard to the second the answer which will occur at first sight to most persons is that the man has not gone round the monkey, since ho has never been behind it. The correct answer, however, as decided by' Knowledge,' in the pages of which this momentous question has been argued, is that the man lias gone round the monkey ingoing round the pole.

Jjfihe passenger trade to New Zeaa continuous falling-off throughout 1887, and Messrs Shaw, ft Savill admit having shipped 1,000 ' fewer passengers by their Bteamers than in 1886. The colony has got a bad name' now with emigrants. Small capitalists are scared by what they read about the debt, and laborers mostly prefer America, and consequently that passenger trade has increased,

In Germany recently, Richard Sohulz, member oi theHamburgßicyclo Club, find wellknown as a trick-rider, voile twenty-eight miles on one wheel, Schulz took the best riders along at a very good pace, so that in spite of the very muddy and soft state of the road. the mile (nearly four miles and a-half English) was covered in balkn-hour Even gutter stones and bad paving, were no hindrance to the one-wheel rider. way back after dinner Schulz showed no trace of fatigue, and caused the greatest sensation everywhere, • Schulz never rides a machine specially constructed for 'the purpose, but always * uses the front wheel of an ordinary 52 inch bicycle, merely fitted with for- " wUwlle'lnr. '

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