Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 June 1910, Page 1

Useful References

FOR TRAVELLERS AND STAY-

AT-HOME PEOPLE.

Steamers leave Wellington for Christchurch practically every evening int the week. Afternoon trains from Leviui connect with them. There wire frequent trips to ports 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 ooid Gisborne. The, inward steamers from Sydney to Wellington go on to southern ports, and from Tho Bluff 'they steam up to 'Melbourne and latter on to Sydney. As a means of enabling the sender of a letter addressed to «a place abroad to prepay the postage on <i reply, the Department issues reply coupons on paymenit of a fee of Id. These coupons may be exchanged for a postage stamp of the value of in any country which adopts tho scheme. New Zealand's population, including that of the Cook Islands and other denendencies, is now well over one million. Tn -Tune, 1008, the estimated, ponulatimi 'of London was 4,795,757. The rateable value of property in En gland and Wales has risen each vear since 1874. The figures art as follows:— Tn 1874, £115.646,631. Tn 1888, £145,527,944. Tn 1894, £161.139,575. Tn 1,908, £212, 757, 450. Th'eitotal rateable value in *1874 represrmits an average of £4 17s 6d per head of population, while in 1908 the average was £6 ner head. People are puzzled to know what ; s meant by occasional references, in discussions on naval armaments, fo the German Na,val Law. Tlio German Navy Law of 1907 provides for the laying down in each vear from 1908 to 1911 of three battleships and one armoured "miser; also in each Vear from 1912 to 1917 of one battleship and one armoured cruiser: .also in each vear from 1908 to 1917 of two protected cruisers and one d'estrover. New Zealand's public debt at 31st March. 1910, amounted to £70,938534, ifihe increase for >tho twelve months immedintelv preceding having been £4.484.G37. Of this amount £1,200,000 was raised by way of public works, £1.048,800 under th'o Advances to Settlers and WorkAct. and £1.000.000 tinker the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Purchase Act. £250.000 was raised under flie Loans to Local Bodien Act, 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 bv comparison with the figures for 't/lie year immedliatelv -prececWng. Against this were set down assets totalling £37.160,000, the principal item being the estimated market value of the Suez Canal shares own°d by Great Britain (£32,000,000). AGE OF HORSES AS SHOWN BY THETR TEETH. A foail_ of six 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, he loses f'e first milk grinders above and below, amd 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 th rec years, he casts his two front uppers, and in a short time after the It wo next. At . age of four vears. grinders are six unon each side, and at about, four and a-half his nippers are all r> or marten t ones, by the replacing of remaining two corneir teeth : tushes then appear, and he is no longer a colt. A/t five a horse has tushes, and there is m black-coloured oavity in centre of all his lower mipnors. 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 blunt- | nd ; and at eight, the cavities of the Kvo corner teeth are filled un. Hors'o mav now be said to be aged. Cavities i" ninTvrs of urmer jaw ire not obliterated until the horse : s About ten years 'old. after which *ushes berime round, and nippers nroiect and 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 tlie_ front of the shoulder to the junction of the tail. Multiply thlie square of the girth in feet a/nd inches by the length in 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 conditioin be 6ft, the length sftr 4in, them 6 x 6—36 x 51-3—192 x .24—47.08 stones. The foregoing is tho carcase weighit of ■tihe animal. The weight of the earcase wo'iild be about |of tho livo weight for cattle; for siheep, from 1-3 to f; and for a pig, from J to | the live weight.