Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 June 1910, Page 1

Useful References

, —• 1 FOR TRAVELLERS AND STAY- ; AT-HOME PEOPLE. Steamers leave _ Welljington for Ohristchurcli practically every evening in the week. Afternoon trains from Levin connect with them. ] Tli.ere are frequent trips to ports further south, such as Dimedin «<mT. i Tlie Bluff. Steamers leave Welling- : ton for Sydney direct on Friday of every week, mid 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 ami G-ishorne. The , inward steamers from Sydney: to Wellington go on to southern ports, and from Tiio Bluff they steam up to Melhourn'o iand laJter on. to Sydney. As a means of enabling the sender of a letter addressed to a nlace _T.~ /I J._ ii. . . 1

abroad to prepay the postage on ia reply, tlio Department issues reply coupons on payment of a. fee of Id. These coupons may he oxelianrrerl for « postage stamp of the v.alue of 2}<l in any country which adopts the sehome. New Zealand's population, including that of the Cook Islands and other deoendencips. is irow well over 0110 million. Tll .Tune, 1008. the estiminted population 'of London was 4.705,757. The rateable value of property in England .and Wales has risen p,neh year since 1874. The figures are ns follows:— Tll 1874, £115.f>4(>.f>31. Tn 1888, .0145,527.944. Tn 1894, £101.139.575. Tn TOOS, ,C 212, 757, 450. TliU ;t.n4-.nl ~ntn nl ,l„ ~„l..- 101 J .. _

riieitotnl rateable value in 1874 represnnits an nvei-age of €4 17s fid' pei head of population, while in 1908 the average wns £C> per bead. People are puzzled to know what y? meant by occasional references, in discussions on naval nrmampin-ta! to the German Naval Law. The German Navy Law of 1907 provides for the laying down in each VMir from 1908' to 1911 of Lhree battleships and ono armoured cruiser; also in each y'enr from 1912 to 1917 of one bnUleship m A ■ one M'liioui'ed cruiser: also in each venr from 1908 to 1917 of two protected cruisers and one destrover. New Zealand's public debt at 31st March. 1910, amounted to .£70.038531. the inerense for >the twelve months immediatelv precediii"- having been £4.484.(537. Of this nmount £1,200,000 wnjq raised by way of public works, ;Cl-;048,800 'nnder tli'o Advances to Settlers and Workers Act. and £1.000.000 under -the Wellington and Manawntu Railwav Purchase Act. £250,000 was n d under tbp Lonns 'to.Loral Bodiofl Acft, and £211,495 under the Land for Settlements Act. Great Britain's Nat.inn.nl T) o ,l>+

vriiMu .iMiirMn ,s iviar-ioimi j;piht. on 31st March, 1009, stood at ,£751.121300, being {i decrease of ;€5.70i,712 bv comparison with the. ficnros' for 'tJlie _ year inimedliatblv Against tin's were set down resets totnllin<r .C37.1fi0,000. the prinoip.nl ftom being the estimated market value of tJi o S'lf'z Canal slimes ownod I)v Groat Britain' (032,000.000). AGE OF TTOBSES AR SHOWN BY THETB, TEETIT. A foail of six months has grinders in each jaw, throe on o*ioh side; also six nippers of front toeltli, with a cavity in each. At the age of one year, he loses the first milk grinders above and beil'ow, aiiid front teeth hare their cavities filled up alike ito teeth of horses of eight yoars of age. At a pre of two .and a half -to three yoars. he casts his two front' unpers, and in a short time after the itwo next. At wTfre of fnnv TOnra

01 rom yoiirs, prrnider.s ire six nnon on Hi side. ,ni<l n.fc .about four and a-lialf liis nippers are all permanent ones, by the re r>la cincr of remaining two corner teeth : tushes then appear, and lie is no longer a coif,. Affc five a liorse lias tushes. and fth'ore is a black-coloured cavity in centre of nil liis lover nippers. At six +liis black caritv is obliterated in the two front' loweir nippers. At seven tflie cavities of t.lie next two are filled np and tushes blunted ; and at eight tlie cavities of flie two corner teeth are filled nn. Horse mnv now be said to be npv"l. Cavities in _ nippers of upner jaw are not obliterated until the hm-™ is flbout ten years 'old, aff«r which tushes 'became round, and 'nippers project and change tlieir snrf.nc"p. TO ASCERTAIN THE WETGHT OF CATTLE. Take the measurement of tlio girth where it is smallest (close behind 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 find indies by the length in feet, and multiply the product by .23, .24, ".26, .28, or .30, according tq tli'o fatness of tho animial, and the result will give the weight in imperial stones. For instance, if the girth of an Animal in moderate coiutitioiii he 6ft, the length sftr 4in, then, G x G—3o x 51-3—192 x .24—47.08 stones. The foregoing is tho carcase weight of (the animal. The weight of the carcase would he about fof the live weight for cattle; for sheep, from 1-3 to |; and for a pig, from J to jj the live weight.