Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 June 1910, Page 1

Useful References

, « 1 FOR TRAVELLERS AND STAY j AT-HOME PEOPLE. Steamers leave Wellington foi ' Christchumh practically every evening in the week. Afternoon train.' ' from Levini. connect with' them, ' There are frequent trips to port l further south, such as Dunedin and The Bluff. Steamers leave Wellington for Sydney direct on Friday of every week, and anyone who finds that day inconvenient may get to Sydney from Auckland, whence a steamer leaves every Monday, after having voyaged up from "Wellington via Napier and Gisborne. The,inward s tanners from Sydney to Wellington go on to southern ports, and from Tho Bluff 'they steam up to Melbourne and latter oil to Sydney. As a means of enabling the sender of a letter addressed to a place abroad to prepay tho postage on a reply, the Department issues reply coupons on payment of a fee of Id. These coupons may be exchanged for >a. postage stamp of the value of 2Jd in any country which adopts tho 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 in England and Wales has risen each year since 1874. The figures arcs ns follows Tn 1874, £115,G1G.631. Tn 1888, £145,527,944. Tn 1894, £1(51.139,575. Tn 1908, £212, 757, 450. Th'e total rateable value in 1874 represents an average of £4 17s Gd per head of population, while in 1908 •".he average was £6 -per head. People are puzzled to know what \s meant by occasional references, in discussions an naval armaimem+s, to the German Naval Law. The German Navy Law of 1907 provides for tho laying down in each vea.r from 1908 to 1911 of three battleships and mm .'irmouro'l cruiser; also in each year from 1912 to 1917 of one battleship and ohe armoured cruiser: al.°o in enr-h vear from 1908 to 1917 of two protected cruisers and one dostrover. New Zealand's public debt at 31st March. 1910, amounted to £70,938534, the increase for the twelVo

months immediately preceding having been £4.484.037. Of this aniount £1,200,000 was raised by way of public works. £1.048,800 under the Advances to Settlers and Workers Act. and £1.000.000 under the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Purchase Act. £250,000 was raised under thp Louis'to Local Bodies Aclt, 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 wi*h the furums for 'tflie _ year immediately preceding. Against this were set down assets totalling £37.100.000. the principal item being the estimated market value of ithe Suez Canal .shares owned bv Great Britain (£32.000,.000). AGE OF HORSES AS SHOWN BY THEIR TEETH. A foail of sax months has six" grinders in each jaw, three on each side; also six nippers'of front teeth, with a cavity in each. At the age of one year, lie loses the first milk prinders above and below, aind front teeth have their cavities filled up alike ito teeth of horses of eight years of age. At aire of two ,hkl a half to three years, he casts his two front uppers, and in a short time after the two next. At . age of four years, grinders are six upon each side, and at about four and >a-half his nippers are all permanent ones, by the replacing of remaining two corner teeth : tushes then appear, and he is 110 longer a colt. Alt five a horse hps tushes, and there is «t 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 two are filled up and tushes blunted : and at eisht the cavities of the • f -wo corner teeth am filled up. Hors'e may now be sand to be a red. Caivities in nippers of upper jaw are not obliterated mi til the linrcp is lahout, ten years old. after which tushes become round, and nippers project a did chancre their surface. TO ASCERTAIN THE WEIGHT OF CATTLE. Take ifcho '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 tho tail. Multiply tlihe square of the girth in feet a/nd inches _by tho length, an feet, and multiply the product by .23, .24, ".26, .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 eonditioin be 6ft, the length sftr 4in, then 6 x G—3G x 51-3-192 x .24-47.08 stones. Tho foregoing is tho carcase weight of ithe animal. The weight of the carcase would be about fof the live weight for cattle; for sheep, from 1-3 to and for a pig, from J to the live weight.