Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 July 1910, Page 1

Useful References

— —• FOR TRAVELLERS AND STAY-AT-HOME PEOPLE. Steamers leave Wellington for Christclmrch practically every evening in the week. Afternoon trains from Levin connect with them. There ware frequent trips to ports further south, such as Dunedin awl The Bluff. Steamers leavo Wellington for Sydney direct on Friday of every week, and anyone who finds that dav inconvenient may get to Sydney from Auckland, whence n steamer leaves every Monday, after having voyaged up from Wellington via Napier and Gisborne. The inward steamers from Sydney to Well in on go on to southern ports, and from The Bluff they steam up to Melbourne and later on to Sydney. , As ft means of enabling the sender of a letter addressed to a place abroad to prepay the postage on a replv. the. Department issues reply on payment of a fee of Id. These coupons may he exchanged for a postage stamp of the value of 2'd in any country which adopts t.lm scheme. N»»w Zealand's population, including that of the Cook Islands mdoHior donnmlencies, is now well nvnv million. Tn .Tunc. T DOB. the estimated noo'dation of London was 4,^05,757. The rateable volue of property in Rnclnnd an'l Wales has risen each venv since 1871. The figures are vs follows Tn 1874. .■eiirj.aifi.63l. Tn 1888. £145.527.044. Tn 1804, .-Clfil.ian.n7S. Tn 1908, £212, 757, 450. Th'o total rateable value in 1874 represents niii average of £4 17s fid ti»t bend of population, while in 1008 •-.he average was €fi T>er head. People are puzzled t<o know what : s meant by occasional references, m discussions un naval armaments, the German Naval Law. Tlie Herman Navy Law of 1007 provides for the laving down in each venr from 1008 to 1011 of t.hrec battleships and one armoured "miser; also in each year from 101'2 to 1017 of o"o bntHesbin a.iv 1 ono fivinoii'T./1 PiMii.«jov: in each vear from 1008 to 1017 of two proteeted cruisers and one destrover. New /.viand's public debt at. Hlct March. 1010. amounted to ,£70.038~31. the increase for the twolr'e months iiii inprlintelv preceding hav;nfT boo" '1.484 fi37. Of this a""oiint -01 onn.ooo wis rn ; s«d bv wav of ,rorks. n.„inr ■-bo A'l wiih"'« tn Rattles and WcV- ...„ \ -.i- . M . i pi nno onn n., W,.li;ii ( rfo.» nnd Af""a"'nfn Railwnv '«»•. '0050.000 v-.c „1 I'-r. T.r>"v,c fo TWI.M.irl 0211,405 under the Land for S"fflyments Aft,. Untoiri's National TVbt,. on 11 ct ATnrob. 1000. stood at />751.1 f>l- - beinf a decrease of 05,704.712 c-nnin.' 1 vie on + be> finiriw foi (fbn nvir inimedliate-lv preceding. Vrr.iin.ct tbworo cnf. down assets +/>tnlli"T 037.1fi0.000. the principal Itomi br>i>iT the estimated market 1-olno of tbo P'io7, Onnal shares rvvn»(l bv Great Britain (C 32.000.000). \OE OF TTOTfSES AS RTTOWN BY THETR TEETH. A fond of siix months has six 1 grinders in each jaw, three on each sido; nlso six nippers of front teeth, with n cavity in each. At the n< r o of one year, he loses ibo first '"ilk (rrindcrs and below, nnvl front teeth have their cavities filled np alike to teeth of horses of eight vears of age. At a<?e of two an' l n half to three years, he casts his two front uppers, and in a short timo after the two next. At aee of four vears. grinders are six nnon each side, and at about four and a-half his nippers are all pormnin'»nt ones, by the replacing of remaining two corner teeth : tushes th»n appear, and he is no longer a colt At five a horse has tushes, ami there is a black-coloured cavity ir rentre of all his lower nippers. At six this black envity is obliter ited in the two front loweir nip

At seven the cavities of the t.ivn nve filled nn nnd tn.«hes blunted : an/1 at eieht the cavities of the corner teetb nrs fillod no. TTrvv.c'a riinv lie .mid to be CSvitiM i" n.inrw«j of unoer iaw . nvp nnt obliterntfod "nt.il +ho l ,r " -co .V t°n vonrs flf+or ivhi<-h tiic.l)i>.« l)op/>nvo ,ro'iitfl. Snd ninnors f.nd tlieir .cnrf.of". TO ASCERTAIN THE WEIGHT OF OATTLE. Take iho measurement of the oirtli whore it is smallest (close behind the shoulder) and the length of the miimal from the front of the shoulder to the junction of the fail. Multiply thhe square of the o-ivtli in feet and inches by the lenath in feet, and multiply the product by .23, .24, .26, .28, or .30,

according to tli'o fatness of the animal, and the # result will give the weight in imperial stones. For instance, if the pirili of an animal 111 moderate eonditioin be 6ft, the length sftr 4in, then 6 x 6—30 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 fof the live weight for cattle; for sheep, from 1-3 "to f; and for a pig, from J to % the live weight.