READERS’ QUERIES

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21212, 7 September 1940, Page 12

READERS’ QUERIES

I>r np •* Kinar VI was In Hamilton on February 19*7. wlumi li«* ".i- tho nuke or York. Tin' first ’ \ew Zealand by Royalty was by tne Duke or Edinburgh in 1860. "Bunty.”—The “battering rani” was a military apparatus mounted on **'*>''.* *tkl composed of a heavy, iion-hound beam which was impel fed with great force upon the walls of a besieged place. “Claaaicua.” — According to ancient mythology the twelve labours or Hercules were- (1) To kill the lion or Nemea; (•_*) io destroy the seven-headed t ern can hydra; (3) to capture the Arcadian stag- <-I > to destroy the wild boar or Ervmanthus; (5' t<* clean the Augean stables; * - > to kill the carnivorous birds of Stvmpbalis; (7) to capture the wild bull or Crete; (8) to capture the mares or Diomedes; (9; to obtain the girdle of the Queen or the Amazons; (10) to capture'the oxen or fiery on; (it) to obtain some golden apples from the garden or the liesperldes; t2) to bring to earth the seven-headed dog or Hades. By accomplishing these tasks successfully Hercules was Treed rrom his service to Eurystbeus and returned to Thebes. “Kj-Klux.”—The Ku-Klux-Klan was the title or a secret American association whose mendjers were -worn to continue active svmpathy with the secession principle after the conclusion or the Civil War in lgf-5. They became p<»werful In l\S. politics in the mid-tw.li-lies but fell into obscurity during the depression year.-. According to a:i American report the Klansmen met in secret “Klonvocatloii ’ at national headquarters lu Atlanta last year. A new leader or “Imperial Wizard. ’ as he <tyle- hiinseir. was elected who pro-mi-*‘d a revival <r the movetnent. saying that the fiery cross symbol of the -i>l-i«*t\ would again blaze fr ail tle hilltops or America. hi it' early years ku-kiux-Klau coiyinitted ma:i;. outrages and eartiecl for itself a reputation lor brutality and terrorism.