Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 June 1910, Page 1

Useful References

— « FOR TRAVELLERS AND STAY-AT-HOME PEOPLE. f-lteainers leave Wdliing'ton for Christ church practically every ovenintr jn the week. Afternoon trains from Levi.ni connect with them. There are frequent trips to > ports further south, such as Dutieddn and The Hlnff. Steamers leave vWelling:tou for Sydney direct on' Friday of every week, and anyone who finds that day inconvenientimay get to Sydney from Auckland, whence a. steamer leaves every "Monday, after having voyaged np from Wellington via Napier and Giisborne." The, inward steamers from! Sydney to Wellington go on to southern ports, and from Tho B'hiff 'tihey steam up to Melbourne and 1 alter on. to Sydney. As a means of enabling the sender of a letter addressed to a place abroad to propay the postage on a reply, the Department issues reply couiwms on pnymenit of a foe of Id. These coupons [nay be exehamgc.d for a postage sttamp of the value of 2Jd in any country wh'ueh adopts the scheme. New Zealand's population, including that of the Cook Islands and other dependencies, is now well over one million. Tn -Tune, 1908, the estimated population of London was 4,795,757. The rateable value of .property im England and "Wales has risen .each year since 1874. The figures aro as follows:— In 1874, £115,010,631. Tn 1888, £145,527,944. Tn 1894, £101,139,575. ■Tn 1908, £212, 757, 450. ' Th'o itwjin'l rateable value iin 1874 represmnts an average of £4 17s Gd per head of population,' while in 1908 the average was £0 per head. People, are puzzled to know what is meant by occasional references, in discussions oil naval annnmemta, to the German Naval Law. • The German Xavy Law of 1907 provides for the laying down in each year from 1908 to 1911 of three ba.titleships and one armoured cruiser; also in each ytotr from 1912 to 1917,0f one battleship and. one armoured cruiser: also in each year from 1908 to 1917 of two protected cruisers and one destroyer. New Zealand's public debt at 31st March. 1910, amounted to £70,938531, tilie increase for /the twelVe months immediately preceding having been £4.484,037. Of this amount £1,200,000 was raised hy way of public works, £1,048,800 under the Advances to Settlers and "Workers Act. and £.1,000,000 under tho Wellington and Manawatu Railway Purchase Act. £250,000 was raised under the Loans'to Local Bodie.s Act, and £211,495 under the Land for Settlements Act. Great Britain's National Debt, on 31st March, 1909, stood ait £754,121309, being a decrease of £5,704,742 bv comparison with tho figures for Itlhe year imnledliatbly 'precedvng. Against this were set down assets totalling £37,100,000, the principal item being the estimated .market value of itlie Suez Canal shares owned by Great Britain (£32,000,000). AGE OF HORSES AS SHOWN BY TIIEFR TEETH. A foail of six months. (has efitf grinders in each jaw, three on each side; also six nippers of front teelth, with a cavity in each. At the age of one year, ho loses the first milk grinders above and below, aitwl front (teeth have tlieii' cavities filled .up alike ito teeth of horses of eight years of age. At age of two and a half to three years, lie casts his t,wo front uppers, and in a short time afteir the ifavo next. . At age of four years, grinders are six upon each side, and ait about four and a-half his nippers are all permanent ones, by the replacing of remaining two cornoJr teeth ; tushes then appear, and lie is no longer a colt. A/t five a horse hps tushes, and (there is a black-coloured cavity in centre of all his lower nippers. At six this black cavity is obliterated; in the two front lowdr nippers. At seven the cavities of the next two are filled up and tushes' blunted ; and at eight the cavities of tho two corner teeth are filled up. Hors'e may now be said to be aged. Cavities in nippers of .upper jaw are not obi iterated. until the horse is about ten years 'old, after which tushes become round, and nippers project and change their surface. TO ASCERTAIN THE WEIGHT OF CATTLE. Take itho measurement of the girth where it is smallest (close behind the shoulder) and the length of the animal from the front of the shoulder to tho junction of the tail. Multiply tlihe square ;of the girth in feet and int'heis by tho length in feet, and multiply the product by .23, .24, .2(3, .28, or .30, according to the fatness of the animal, and 'the result will give the weight in imperial stones. For instance, if the girth of an animal in moderate conditioin be 6ft, the length sftr 4in, then G x 6—36 x 51-3-192 x .24-47.08 stones. The foregoing is tho carcase weighit of itihe animal. The weight of the carcase would be about fof the liVo weight for cattle; for sheep, from 1-3 to f; and for a pig, from i to J the live weight.