Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 June 1910, Page 1

Useful References

FOR TRAVELLERS AND STAY-AT-HOME PEOPLE. iSteamers leave Wellington for Ohristchurch practically every evenins; in the week. Afternoon trains from Levin, connect with them. There are frequent trips to ports further south, such as Dunedin mm! The BlufF. Steamers leave "Wellington 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, up from Wellington via Napier iand Gisborne. TJie .inward steamers from Sydney to "Wellington go on to southern ports, and from The Bluff they stea-n up to Melbourne- and 1 alter on to Sidney. As a means of enabling the sender of a letter addressed to a place abroad to prepay the postage on a reply, the Department issues reply coupons on payment of a fee of Id. These coupons may lie exchanged for a postage sit amp of the value of 2kl in any country which adopts the scheme. New Zealand's population, including that of the Cook Islands and other dependencies, is now well over one million. Tn .Tune, 1008, the estimated population of London was 4,795,757. The rateable value of property i?i England and Wales has risen each vear since 1874. The figures are as follows Tn 1874, £115.010.031. Tn 1888, £145,527.944. Tn 1894, £101.139,575. Tn T9OB, £212, 757, 450. The total rateable value in 1874 reprcsnnts an a vera ere of £4 17s Gd per head of population, while in 1908 the average was £0 per head. People are puzzled to know what ; s meant by occasional references, in discussions Oil naval armameints, to the German Naval Law. The German Navv Law of 1907 provides for the laving down in each vear from 1908 to 1911 of three battleships and one armoured cruiser; also in each year from 1912 to 1917 of one battleship and one armoured cruiser: also in each vear from 1908 to 1.917 o<f two protected cruisers and one destrover. New Zealand's public debt at 31st March. 1910, amounted to £70,938534. the increase for the twelve months immediatelv preceding having been £4.481.037. Of this ainount £1,200.000 was raised by way nf public works. £1,048,800 under the Advances to Settlers and Workers Act. and fi1.000.000 uii'ler the Wellington a.nd Manawatu Railway Purchase Act. £250,000 was nis"l under t-I'p Loons to Local Bodies Act, and £211,495 undet the Land for Sott'l ement.s Act. Great Britain's National Debt, on list March, 1909, stood at £754.121W9, being a decrease of £5,701,742 Ivv comparison with the fitrnres for fihe year immediately preceding. Against, this were set down assets tot.allinrr £37.100,000. the principal item being the estimated -market mine of the Suez Canal shares owni'd by Great Britain (£32,000,000). AGE OF HORSES AS SHOWN BY THETR TEETH. A foail of six months lias six Grinders in each jaw, three on each side; also six nippers of front teeth, with a cavity in each. At the acre of one year, he loses the first milk grinders above and below, .and front teeth have their cavities filled up alike to teeth of hordes of eight years of age. At aire of two and a lialf to three years, he casts his two front uppers, and in a, short time after the two next. At age of four vears. grinders are six unon each side, and at about four and a-half his nippers are all permanent ones, by the replacing of '•emaining two cornoir teeth: tushes t-ben appear, and he is no longer a A o'lt,. At five a horse ligs 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 lower nippers. At seven the cavities of the next are filled up and tufbes blimt•vl: and at ei<rht the cavities of the corner teeth are filled un. HovpA imv now be said to be aped. Cavities in nippers of upper iaw ire n"t obliterated until +he : s .»lion+ ten vears old. after which l usbes liifAi.io round, nippers project and change theii* surface. TO ASCERTAIN THE WEIGHT

OF CATTLE. Take tlio 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 tlio junction of the tail. Multiply thlie square of the givtb in feet antl 'indies by the length in feet, and multiply the product by .23, .24, .26, .28, or .30, according to tlio fatness of the animal, and the resuTt will give the weight in imperial stones. For instance, if the girth of an animal in moderate condi tioin be Cft, the length sftr 4in, then 6 x 6—3fi x 51-3 192 x .24—47.08 stones. Tlio foregoing is the carcase weight oi the animal. The weight of the carcase womld be about fof the live weight for cattle; for sheep, froir 1-3 to and for a pig, from 3 to the live weight.