Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 June 1910, Page 1

Useful References

- FOR TRAVELLERS AND STAY-AT-HOME PEOPLE. Steamers leave _ Wellington fo!r I Cbrist-churcl 1 practically every eroiir ing m the week. Aifternoon trains from Levim connect with them. There tare frequent, trips to ports further south, such as Dunedin a-nd The .Bluff. Steamers leave Wellington for Sydney direct on Friday of overy .week, and anyone who finds that day inconvenientimay get to Sydney from Auckland, whence a. steamer leaves every Monday, after having voyag'ed up from Wellington via Napier and Gisborne. TJie. iiivward steamers fhx>m Sydney to Wellington go on to southern ports, and from The Bluff 'they steam up to iMclbourn'e- and lator on to Sydney. As a means of enabling the sender of a letter addressed, to a place abroad to prepay the rpwstage 011 ia reply, the Department issues reply coupons on payment of a fee of Id. These coupons may be exchanged for a postage stomp of the value of 2Jd in any country .which adopts the scheme. New Zealand's" population, including that of the Cook Islands and other denendencies, is now well over one million. Tll June, 1908, the odtimated population 'of London was 4,795,757. Tho rateable value of property in England and Wales has risen each yea j* since 1874. The figures are ns follows:— In 1874, £115.640,631. Tu 1888, £145,527,944. Tn 1894, £161,139,575. In 1908, £212, 757/450. Th'o total rateable value in 1874 reprcseimts am average of £4 17s Gd per head of population, while in 1908 the average was £0 per head. People are puzzled to kno*v what is meant by occasional references, in discussions on naval armaimemts, to the German Naval Law. The German Navy Law of 1907 provides for the laying down in each year from 1908 to 1911 of three battleships and one armoured cruiser; also in each yWir from 1912 to 1917 of one battleship awl one armoured cruiser: also in each year fi;om 1908 to 1917 of two protected cruisers and one d'estroyer. New Zealand's public debt at 31st March. 1910, amounted to £70,938534. flhe increase for /the twelVo months immediately preceding having been £4.484,637. Of this amount £1,200,000 was raised by way of public works, £1.048,800 under th'e Advances to Settlers and Workers Act, and £1.000.000 under the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Purchase Act. £250,000 was raised under the Loans to Local Bodies Actfc, and £211,495 under the Land for Settlements Act. Great Britain's National Debt, on 31st March, 1909, stood at £754.121309, being a decrease of £5,704,742 by comparison with the figures for Itihe year immedliately preceding.' Against this were set down assets totalling £37.160,000, the principal item being the estimated market value of itihe Suez Canal shares owned by Great Britain (£32,000.000). AGE OF HORSES AS SHOWN BY TI4ETR, TEETH. A foatl of six months has sax* grinders in each jaw, three 011 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, mnd front teeth have their cavities filled up alike to teeth of horses of eight years of age. At age of two and a half to three years, he casts his two front uppers, and in a, short time afteir the itwo next. At age of four years, grinders are six upon each side, and at about four and a-half his nippers are all per.maiiient ones, by the replacing of remaining two corner teeth; tusbes then appear, and he is no longer a colt, At five a horse hgs tushes, and there is a black-coloured cavity in • centre of all his lower miippers. At six this black cavity is obliterated! in the two front lowefr nip-

pei'S. At seven tbe cavities of the next two are filled up and tushes blunted ; and at eight- the cavities of tho ■two corner teeth are filled up. TTors'e may now be said to be aged. Cavities in nippers of upner jaw nre not obliterated until the horse is about ten years old, after which tushes become round, and nippers project amd change their surface. TO ASCERTAIN THE WEIGHT OF CATTLE. Take tho -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 thhe square of the girth in feet aind 'inches by tho length in feet, and multiply the product by .23, .24, .26, .28; or .30, according to th'o fatness of the animal, and 'the result will give tho weight in imperial stones. For iiiir stance, if th'e girth of an animal in moderate conditioin be 6ft, the length sftr 4in, then G x G—36 x 51-3—192 x .24—47.08 stones. The foregoing is the carcase weighlt of itihe animal. The weight of the carcase wonld be about fof the liVc weight for cattle; for sheep, from 1-3 to f; and for a pig, from J to 3 the live weight.