Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 June 1910, Page 1

Useful References

« FOR TRAVELLERS AND STAY-AT-HOME PEOPLE. Steamers leave Wellington for Oliristclmrch practically every evening in. the week. Afternoon trains from Levin connect with them. Tli;ere are frequent trips to ports further south, such as Dunedin and Tlie Bluff. Steamers leave Welling■ton if or Sydney direct on Friday of every week, and anyone who finds tluat day inconvenient may get to Sydney from Auckland, whence a steamer leaves every Monday, after having voyag'ed up from Wellington via Napier and Gisborne. The, inward steamers from Sydney to Wellington go on to southern ports, and from The Bluff 'they steam up to Melbourn'o and 1 alter on to Sydney. As a means of enabling the sender of a letter addressed to a. place abroad to prepay tho postage on « 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. In .Tune. 1908, the estimated population 'of London was 4,795,757. Tlie rateable value of property in England and Wales has risen each year since 1874. Tlie figures are ns follows:— In 1874, £115.64(5.631. In 1888, £145,527,041. In 1804, €161.139.575. In 1908, £212, 757/450. Th'e'total rateable value in 1874 represents an average of £4 17s fid per head of population, while in 1908 lie average was CO per head. People are puzzled to know what w meant by occasional references, in discussions an naval armaments, to the German Naval Law. Tlie German Navy Law of 1907 provides for the laying down in each venr from 1908 to 1911 of three battleships and one Armoured cruiser; also in each your from 1912 to 1917 of one battleship -anrl one armoured cruis°r: also in each vear from 1908 to 1917 of two protected cruisers and one dor-trover. New Zealand's public debt at 31st March. 1910, amounted to £70.938531. the increase for the twelve months immediatelv preceding having been £4.484.637. Of this amount £1,200,000 was raised by way of public works. £1.018,800 under th'e Advances t-o Settlers and Workers Act. and £1.000.000 nn r W the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Purchase Act. £250,000 was raised under Loans'to Local Bodies 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 hv comparison with the figures for 'tlhe year imme-dliatelv preceding. Against this were set down assets totalling £37.160,000. the principal item being the estimated market value of (fihe Suez Canal shares owned by Great Britain (£32,000,000). AGE OF TTOBSES AS SHOWN BY THETR TEETH. A foart of six months has siix l grinders in eaoli jaw, three on each side; also six nippers of front teeth, with a cavity in each. At the age- of ono year, he loses the first milk prinders above and below, jural front teeth have their cavities filled up alike to teeth of horses of eight years of age. At acre of two and a half to three years, he casts his two front unpers, and in a short timo after the itwo next. At age of four vears. grinders' are six nnon each side, and at about, four and a-lialf his nippers are all permanent ones, by the ronkveing of remaining two cor nor teeth : tushes then appear, and lie is no longer a colt. Alt five a horse has 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 loweir nipners. At seven the cavities of the next two are filled up and tushes blunted : and at eicrht the cavities of the >wo corner teeth are filled un. Hors'e rnav now he said to be a fed. Cavities in nirmers of upoer iaw are not obliterated until the is mhout ten vears 'old, after which tulips become round, and nippers nroiect and eh.nn<re their surface. TO ASCERTAIN THE WEIGHT OF CATTLE. Take ifclio measurement of the girth whore 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 thlie 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 tho fatness of the animal, and the _ result will give the weight in imperial stones. For instance, if th'e girth of an animal in moderate oonditioin be 6ft, the length sftr 4in, then. 6 x 6—36 x 51-3—192 x .24—47.08 stones. The foregoing is tho carcase weiglilfc of itilie animal. Tlie weight of the carcase would he about |of tho liVo weight for cattle; lor sheep, from 1-3 to |,* and for a pig, fi J om :1 to I the live weight.