Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 June 1910, Page 1

Useful References

9 FOR TRAVELLERS AND STAY. AT-HOME PEOPLE. Steamers fe,avo "Wellington; for Christclmrch practically every evening in the week. Afternoon trains from Levini connect with them. There are frequent trips to porta further south, such a,s Dunedin aixT The Bluff. Steamers leave Wellington for Sydney direct on Friday of every week, and anyone who (finds that day inconvenient m>ay get to Sydney from Aucklian'3, whence a steamer leaves ;every Monday, after having voyaged up from Wellington via Napier and Gdsborne. The, inward steamers from Sydney to Wellington go on to southern porta, and from Tho BiufF they steam up to Melbourne and later on to Sydney. As a means of enabling the sender of a letter addressed to a place

aliroad to prepay the postage on <1 reply, the Department issues repl> coupons on payment of a foe oi Id. These coupons tmy be exchanged for in. postage sita.mp of the mine of 2}d in any country which adopts tlin sehome. New Zealand's population, including that of the Cook Islands and other denpndencicß, is now well over one million. Tn .Tune, 1008. the osf.ini.nted pomilation 'of London was 4,705.757. The rateable value of property in England. and Wales lias risen each venr since 1874. The figures arcs as follows:— Tn 1874, £115,640.631. Tn 1888, £145,527.044. Tn 1804, £161.130,575. Tn 1008, £212, 757, 450. Th'o'total rate.ahle value in 1874 rep-

rosrmits nil avrninre of CI 17s fid nor ]ion<l of population, while in 1008 Urn average was £finer head. People. fire, puzzled to know what v? meant liv occasional references, in discussions an naval <nrm.'i.mem+s, fo tlio German Naval Law. Tlie frorman Navy Law of 1007 provides for the Iflvincc down in oaoli venr from l!)08'to 1011 of lb roe. ba.titlesliips and ono armoured cruiser; also in end) y'onr from 1012 to 1017 of one bat+losbin {iiirl one nvmoiifvl ornisor: ,ilco in parli venr from 1008 to 1917 of two protouted cruisers nnd one destroyer. N(mv Z<vda,ml's pnTilic debt at, 31 st. Atnroll. 1010, amounted to C 70.035-531. 531. tili.p increase for Hie tweVo mon+bs imnierlintpU' prerodinrr having been .f!37. Of this n-

mount C 1,200,000 ivns raised by way of public works. £1.018,800 under tli'o Advianees to Rpttlers-and Wmrk°*'s VI:. and CI 000.000 wW Hio Wellinpflon nnd Manawatu Railway A<-t, £250,000 vn = v.<n'o«d mule'' thn L""ns 't-o Locnl BMiei A fit'., and £211,495 under the Land for Settlements Ant. Or Ant Britain's N-atiomal "Debt. on 31st Mnroll, 1000, stood nt £754.121309, fopinjr n decrease of £5,704,7-12 '>v comparison v-itb +h'o firm res for 'Vie _ year iminedliat'elv preooidunsr. Against this were set down assets totn.llinc £37.160,000, tlie prinema] item bf>in<r +he estimated market vdim of 'the Suez Canal shares owned l).y Groat Britain (£32,000,000). AGE OF TTfmRTSS A,q RTTOWN BY THTCTR TEfiTTI. A foafl of srix months has six 1 srrinders in each jaw, three on each side; also six nippers of front toetth, with a cavity in eae!b. At tlie ap-o of ono ye-ar, ho loses tl'« first milk rrrinders nbove and boTow, rund front linve their "avities filled np nliko to teeth of horses of eijrht years of age.

At acre of two .nn-'l a half to three years. lie casKs his two front "npers. and in a short time afteir Mi o itwo ii'mt, At age of four Years. grinders ■>re six I'noii en eh side. and at viboi't four and a-half his nippers are all nonn.";ri. D ?it ones, by the reobvcing of remaining two cornor teeth : tushes thpn appear, and he is no longer a "olt Aft "ve r> has tnshes. mid 'there is >a blaek-ooloured cavity in centre of nil his lower winners. At six this black cavity is obliterated in the two front loweir nippers. At seven fHi.e cavities of the next two nr« filled up and tushes blunted : fluid at eiiht the oavities cf the ■Hvo corner teeth ore filled ur>. TTor.sH now he said to be ao-ed. Cavillies i" nirmorq of noner iaw are not obliteralfod mi til the is mhoiit t,f>n years 'old. >afW which tushes became round. and rinners project. n.rtd chancre their onrf.ieo. TO ASCERTAIN TEE WEIGHT OF CATTLE. Take the 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 the junction of the tail. Multiply tlihe square of the girth in feet and inches by the length in feet, a,nd multiply the product by .23, .24, .26, .28, or .30, according to th'o fatness of the animal, and the result will give the weight in imperial stones. For instance, if the girth of an »mim,i] in moderate conditioin be 6ft, the length sftr 4in, then, 6 x 6—36 x 51-3-192 x .24—47.08 stones. The foregoing .is the carcase weight of the animal. The weight of the carcase would be about |-of the livo weight for cattle; for she op, from 1-3 to £; and for a pig, from $ to 3 the live weight.