Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 July 1910, Page 1

Useful References

I -w ■- 9 FOR TRAVELLERS AND STAY-AT-HOME PEOPLE. Steamers leave Wellington: folr Ohristchurcli practically every evolving m the week. Afternoon trains from Levi.w connect with' them. There Are frequent trips to ports further south, such as Dunedin amd Tlie Bluff. Steamers leave Wellington for Sydney direct on Friday of overy week, and anyone who finds that day inconvenient may get to Sydney from Auckland, whence a. steamer leiavea every Monday, after having voyaged up from Wellington via Napier and GHsborne. The, inward steamers from Sydney to Wellington go on to southern ports, and from Tho Bluff they steam up to Melbourne and [alter on to Sydney. As a means of enabling the sender of ,a letter addressed to a_place abroad to prepay tho postage on a reply, the Department issues reply coupons on paymen'it of a fee of Id. These coupons may be exchanger! for a postage sltamp of the value of 2Jd in any country which adopts the scheme. New Zealand's population, including that of the Cook Islands and other dependencies, is now well over one million. In .Tnno, 1908. the estimated population of London was 4,795,757. Tlie rateable value of property in England and Wales has risen each vea.r since 1874. Tlie figures arc. as follows:—

Tn 1874, £115.640,631. Tn 1888, £145.527.944. Tn 1894, £161.139,575. In 1908, £212, 757, 450. Th'o itotal rateable value in 1874 reprrsnnits fin average of £4 17s 6d rwr head of population, while in 1908 the average was £6 per head. People arc puzzled to know what is meant hv occasional references, in discussions qji naval armatmem+s, to the German Naval Law. Tlie German Nary 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 year from 1912 to 1917 of one battleship and one armoured cruiser: also in each voar from 1908 to 1917 of two protected cruisers and one d'ostroyer. New Zealand's public debt at 31st March. 1910, amounted to £70,938534. the increase for >the twelVe nionths immediatelv preceding having been £4.484.637. Of this amount £1,200,000 was raised by way of public works. £1,048,800 under th'o Advances to Settlers and Workers Act,, and £1.000.000 umW the Wellington and Mnnaiwatu Railway Purchase Act. £250,000 was raised under thn Loans to Local Bodies Adfc. and £211,495 under the Land for Settlements Act. Groat Britain's National Debt,, on 31st March, 1909, stood ait £754.121309, being a decrease of £5,704,742 bv wn'th th'o figures for Wie _ year immediately Twecediing. Against this were set down assets totalling £37.160,000. the principal item being the estimated .market value of the Suez Canal shares owned by Great Brit aim (£32,000,000). AGE OF HOUSES AS SHOWN BY THEIR TEETH. A foail of six months has six' grinders in eaoh jaw, thi'ee on each side; also six nippers of fironifc teeltli, with a cavity in eaclh. At the age of one year, ho loses the first milk grinders above and below, .nwl front (teeth have th*ir cavities filled up alike ito teetli of horses of eight years of age. At age of two and a half to three years, he casts his two front uppers, and in a short time after the /two next. At age of four years, grinders are six upon each side, and ait about four and a-half his nippers are all permanent ones, by the renlaieing of remaining two corner teeth; tushes then appear, and he is no longer a colt Art five a horse has tushes, and th'o re is a black-coloured cavity in centre of nil his lower rappers.' At six this black cavity is obliterated) tin the two front loweir nippers. At seven the cavities of the next two are filled up and tushes blunted ; amid at eight the cavities of the two corner teeth are filled nr>. TTorsW mnv now be sand to be aged. Cnvities in nippers of upoer jaw are not. obliterated until the horse is About, ten years Old. after which tushes horwriw round, and nippers project aind chancre their surface. TO ASCERTAIN THE WEIGHT OF CATTLE. Take ibho 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 th'he square of the girth in feet amd 'inches by the length an 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 th'o girth of an animail in moderate conctitioin be 6 ft, 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 itlie animal. The weight of the carcase would be about fof the liVe weight for cattle; for sheep, from 1-3 to f; and for a pig, from \ tx) 3 the live weight.