[When questions are sent for solution, they must be accompanied by the replies.! 130. Biddlk.— By John Warden, " One - Tree Point : — I'm not a fluent speaker, Although I'm in the chair ; I am both blind, and deaf, aud dumb, Yet of great value there. You'll find I am not married, Though always with a wife ; I n'er begin a quarrel, I put un end to strife. Again, I am most wretched, I'm buried deep in sin ; I'm plunged into the fire, And in the melted tin. And again, I can bo found If you pierce the hardest stono ; I can't be called "a misci 1 , j Though I cling unto my own. And now I'm near my end, Yet still I'm found in youth ; I shew one good exauplo, By holding to the truth. The Riddler column's decked with mo, I'm found in every rhyme ; I ride upon the land and sea, Yet I'm four less thau nine. 137- Question.— By John G. S., Longbnsh:— The expense of paving a semicircular plot, at 3s. (sd. a yard, amounted to £19 Is. 9.^d. What was the diameter of the circle ? 138. Geographical Square Fuzzle. — By George Griffin, Dunedin : — 1. A postal town in New Zealand. 2. The name of a sea. 3. An island on the coast of Scotland. 4. A town of Portugal. 131>. Chakade.— By C. C, Kiverton :— My first a well-known pronoun is, Though neither you nor mo ; My next is where, in battle's din, , Brave men desire to be. My third's a, useful implement, By farmers greatly used ; My whole's a world-renowned romance You've surely all porused. 140 Chakade.— By W. S. Simkin, Dunedin :— My first is something that hops, My second we see in crops, And the whole we eat with mutton chops. 141.; Question-.— -By John G. 