FBI0AY Jl'aE I« 1899

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VSTutte-XXXVI N9495 OTAGO N.Z

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..„ Fuiday, Juno 10. bolutiousof Problem* and Correspondent mu8b bo addressed to bho "Chow Editor North Otago Timos." Wo ahull bo glad to receive onriaul prob. lema for our column. Tho Oim«a _ Chosa Olab meota ovory Mohdny and Thareday «v«nliig« In tho SOLUTION OF PROBLEM No. 03i By T Traveroe*-. Koy movo—R-K R 4

SOLUTION OfIroBLEM No. 535 By T Twvornor. Koy movc~Q-.Q B

PnOBLBM No. 537. I3y W A Shinkttuu.
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Agrooablo aclvioa ia .seldom useful ad* vico. — Mftpsiion. Nearly 20,000:ba of broad are d^lly eaten lu (ho Sultan of Turkey's hoaae hold. It has boon ascertained thab ono of the mountoius iu tho moou la 20,CO0ffi high, whih sovorul arc up\T»rdy of 30,000 feob.
Mr W E N*pior, who h only 18, and la comidorcd to bo the strongest chess player of his ogo in tho world, rcoontly visit od England on hlg way to Berlio, whoro ho ha* gono to fltudymasict The firab contcab by cable botwoen tho English and American col'oges camo to a conclusion on S»turday, and England soorod a win by 3J to 2$ gamos, Th«ro wes nob much about the contest to oroato oxcitomont or onthutflaHn, bat tho nutch had its Intorcating foataro, and will doubtless bo repeated next year. Tho trying efloob of sorious ohos* oa the norvos was illustrated by the hob that tbo whole of tho pUyorain tho recent Anglo-American chosn match— played by cable— reaorrtd to tob«oco, 'Jho groab payer Blackburn effoted hlunoliiary Eooro by tho aid of ono or two glasses of tho Scotch national bevoragp, and two piper, which ho smoked alternately when ho was tired of ci^us.
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