Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 2 July 1910, Page 1

Useful References

— « FOR TRAVELLERS AND STAY-! AT-HOME PEOPLE. ,Steamers leave Wellington, for Oilristchurcli practically every evening in the week. Afternoon trains from Levin connect, witih them. There are frequent trips to ports further south, such as Dunedin and Tlie Bluff. Steamers lea re Wellington for Sydney direct on Friday of every week, and anyone who finds that (lny inconvenient may get to Sydney from Auckland, whence a steamer loaves every Monday, after having voyaged up from Wellington via Napier iand Gisborne. Tlie,inward steamers from Sydney to Wellington go on to southern ports, and from Tlie Bluff 'tilloy steam up to Melbourne- <nnd later on to Sydney. As a means o<f enabling tlie sender of a letter addressed to a place abroad to prepay tlie postage on a 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 2hi in any country which adopts tho scheme. New Zealand's population, including that of the Cook Islands and other dependencies, is -now well over ono million. Tn .Tune'. 1908. the estimated population of London was 4.7D0.7H7. The rateable value of property in England and Wales has risen each year since 1874. The figures ni-ft as follows:— Tn iß7i, .0115.010.031. Tn 1888, ,01-15.527.914. Tn 1891. C 101.130,575. Tn T9OB, 0212, 757, 450. The total rateable value in 1874 represents an average of 04 17s 0d per head of population, while in 1908 the average was .C'C> per head. People are puzzled to know what 's meant by occasional references, in discussions on naval armaments, fo the German Naval Law. Tlie He mm n Navy Law of 1907 provides for t !, c hiving down in each venr from 1908 to 1911 of three, battleships and one armoured cruiser; also in each year from 1912 to 1917 of one battleship awl one armoured cruis'T: also in each vear from 1908 to 1917 ot two protected cruisers and one destroyer. New Zealand's public debt at 31st March. 1910, amounted to ,070.9385.11. the increase for the twelve months immediately preceding having been .04.484.037. Of this anvonnt 01.200.000 was raised by way of public works. -C 1..018,800 under the Advances to Settlers and Workers Act. and 01.000.000 under the Wellington and Mannwatu Railway Purchase Act. ,0250.000 ivns iwis'»l under the Loans'to Local Bodiei Act. and 0211.495 under the Land for Settlements Act. Great Britain's National Debt, on 31st March, 1909, stood at ,0754,121309, being a decrease of 05,704.742 liv comparison villi the. figures for : t/he year immedliatelv precodung. Against this were set down assets to tail in ST C-T 7 100.000. the principal item being the estimated market value of the Suez Canal shares owned by Great Britain (.032.000,000'). AGE OF HORSES AS SHOWN BY THEIR TEETH. A fo.nl of siix months has six 1 grinders in each jaw, three 011 each side; also six nippers of front teeith, with a cavity in each. At the acre of one year, he loses the, first milk ."Tinders above and below, and front teeth havo 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 uppers, and in a short timo after tho it wo liext. At acre of four years, grinders are six "noil each side, and at ab'out four and a-half his nippers are all ones, bv the replacing of remaining two corner teeth : tushes then appear, and he is no longer a col t At "ve 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 nippers. At seven the cavities of the next +'vn nre filled nr> and tushes hlunt"•'l: and at eight the cavities of the ■f-M'o corner teeth are filler! pp. TTai'.cW ni^v hot lip said to he a<*e(L O'irit-ies i» of upner iaw ire not obliterated until the horse ,nlimi+ +"ii vears old. aftnv which tnshps round, nnd nipn'ers proiect and change their surface. TO ASCERTAIN THE WEIGHT OF OATTLE. Take ifcho measurement of the girth where it is smallest (close behind the shoulder) and tho length of the animal from the front of the, shoulder to tho junction of the tail. Multiply thlie square of the girth in feet and inches by tho length in feet, and multiply the product by .23, .24, .26, .28, or .30, according to tli'o fatness of tho animal, and the result will give the weight in imperial stones. For instance, if the girth of an animal in moderate conditioin be Oft, the length sftr 4in, then G x 6—30 x 5 1-3—192 x .24—47.08 st'ones. The foregoing is the carcase weight of the animal. Tlie weight of the carcase would be about fof tho live weight for cattle; for sheep, from 1-3 to §; and for a pig, fi J om to -J the live weight. ygmmßsmammsaKsamasm