NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS

Waikato Times, Volume IX, Issue 517, 11 September 1875, Page 2

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS

JoeMill'BB — Your verses are very humourous and indicate ronsidaruble originality, but they are somewhat too pjr^na* for .publication. If you will prune then of tho bjcclionable parts, we shall be glad te give them a^pUce in our columns. Dkpbndint. — If the foots are as you -allege you had better seek a remedy afc law. We do not pretend to be lawyers, and we cannot decide the question of juris liction, but we believe the Resident Ma gist rate -has poorer to try the- ease. You had better expend -Ga 8d in taking the opinion" of a local solicitor. A&siCOTjL. — The reason potatoes growing 'in the light b'como duterioratad. i* that th? chemical rays of light produce aclnnge ia their substance, rendering them unfit for food. GfrYHJTAST. — Th" real feat of walking across the ceiling, by th*"Engln)i performer you mention was not^acco'nplished-by rings attached to the ceiling, butby lurgedises of wet leather attached to hia feet, so that when they were placed upon a smooth surface, the air was excluded, and when he allowed his weight to act upou one of fchfl discs, it formed a hollow cup and a vacuum. By foromug a vacuum of only 12 inches he obtained & pressure of 1801bs, which waa more than his weight. The nir was adnmted underneath the discs by takes, -which were closed by springs which being preseed by t lie heels of the p.-rformer, let in the air, and eet the feet free. niBSBNTAW.— sWe. believe Mr Weld, now Governor oi Weitern Australia, is an Irishman. He f jrraerlv occupied the QfSce of Premier in .. JSjw Zv-aland. -