Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 June 1910, Page 1

Useful References

-w - 4 FOR TRAVELLERS AND STAY-AT-HOME PEOPLE. Steamers leave Wellington for Ohristchurch practically every evening in the week. Afternoon trains from Levhii connect with them. There are frequent trips to ports further south, such as Dunedin a<nd The Bluff. Steamers leave Wellington for Sydney direct on Friday of ©very week, and anyone who finds that day inconvenient may get to Sydney from Auckland, whence a steamer leaves every Momlny, alter having voyaged up from Wellington via Napier and Gisborne. The, inward steamers from Sydney to Wellington go on to southern ports, and from Tho Bluff Ilhey steam up to Melbourne and later on to Sydney. 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 foe of Id. These coupons may be oxoha.no;ed for a. postage stamp of the value of 2Jd in any country which adopts the scheme. New Zealand's population, including that of the Cook Islands and other denpudenciefi, is now well

over one million. In Jnno, 1908, the pfltirnated pormlation 'of London was 4,795,757. Tlie rateable value of property in England and Wale. l ! lias risen each vear since 1874. Tlie figures art as follows:— Tn 1874, £115.640.631. Tn 1888, £145,527,944. Tn 1894, £161.139.575. In 1908, £212, 757, 450. Th'o (total rateable value in 1874 reprcsmts am averaee of £4 17s fid net head of population, while in 1908 the average was £0 r>er head. People are puzzled to know what \s meant by occasional references, in discussions an naval armaments, to the German Naval Law. Tlie Gorman Navv Law of 1907 provides for the laying down in each 1 vea,r from 1908 to 1911 of throe battleships and one Armoured cruiser; also in each year from 1912 to 1917 of one battleship and one armoured crui.w: al?o in each year from 1908 to 1917 of two protected. cruisers and one dostrover. New Zealand's public debt at. 31st March. 1910, amounted to £70.938534, Me increase for the twelVe months immediately precedi'iip having heen £4.484.037. Of this amoun,t £1,200,000 was raised by way of public works. £1.048,800 under thb Advances to Settlers and Workers Act. and £1 000.000 un'W the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Purchase Act. £250,000 was raised under the Loons'to B'vliei Act, ami £211,495 under the Land for Settlements Act. Groat Britain's Nation.nl Dpht,. on 31st March, 1909, stood at £754.121309, being a decrease of £5.704.742 lw comparison with the. figures fnr 'tJlie _ year immediiatolv r>reco<Aing. Against this were sH; down assets totalling £37.160,000. the princinnl item being the estimated market value of the Suez Oanal .oharp.ss oivned by Great Britain (£32,000,000). AGE OF HORSES AS SHOWN BY THETR TEETH. A foail of Bix_ months has six l grinders in each jaw, three on each side; also six 7iippers of front toeth, with a cavity in each. At the age of one year, he loses the first milk grinder"? above and below, and front have their cavities filled up alike to teeth of horses of eight years of age. At age of two and a half 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 upon each side, and at about four and o-half his nippers are all permanent ones, by the reolacintr of remaining two corn or teeth : tushes then appear, and lie is no longer a colt. At five a horse bos tushes, and there is <a black-colourod ea,vity in centre of all his lower ni poors. At six this black oavitv is obliterated in tlie two front lower nippers. At seven the oayitios of the next two are filled up and tushes blunted : at eight the cavities of the ' two comer teeth are filled nn. Hors'o mav now be said to be anwl. Cavities in nipper? of noner iaw are not obliterated 'Hit.il +be rep is about ten years old. aftor which tushes become round, and nippers proiect and chancre their surface. TO ASCERTAIN THE WEIGHT OF OATTLE. Take the measurement of the girth where it is smallest (close be- ' liind the shoulder) and the length , of the animal from the front of ' the shoulder to the junction of the tail. Multiply thhe square of the girth in feet and 'inches 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 result will give the - weight in imperial stones. For instance, if th© girth of an animal in moderate conditio! n be 6ft, the length sftr 4in, then 6 x 6—30 x 51-3—192 x .24—47.08 stones. Tho foregoing is the carcase weight of itille animal. Tlie weight of the carcase would he about fof the live weight for cattle; for sheep, from 1-3 to and for a pig, from \ ? to ?i the live weight.