Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 July 1910, Page 1

Useful References

« FOR TRAVELLERS AND STAY-AT-HOME PEOPLE. Steamers leave Wellington fo,r Christclmrch. practically every evolving in tho week. Afternoon trains from Levin, connect with them. There fire .frequent trips to ports further south, such as Dunedin and The Bluff. Steamers leavo Wellington for Sydney direct on Friday of every week, and anyone who finds that day inconvenient may get to Sydney from Auckland, whence a steamer leaves every Monday, after having voyaged up from Wellington via Napier nnd Gisborne. The,inward steamers .from Sydney to Wellington go en to southern ports, and from Tho Bluff they steam up to Melbourne wand laJter on to Sydney. As a means of enabling the sender of a letter addressed to a. place abroad to prepay the postage on a reply, the Department issues reply coupons on payment of a fee of Id. These coupons may be exchanged for A postage sitamp of the value of 2£d in any country which adopts the scheme. New Zealand's population, including that of the Cook Islands nnd other dependencies, is now well over one million. Tn .Tune, 1008. tho estimated population of London was 4.795.757. The rateable value of property in England and Wales has risen each year since 1874. The figures are ns follows Tn 1874, £115.6-16.631. Tn 1888. £145.527.944. Tn 1894. £161.139.575. Tn 1908, £212, 757, 450. Tli'o total rateable value in 1874 repre.snnts an average of £4 17s 6d per head of population, while in 1908 the average was £6 per bead. People are puzzled to know what 's meant by occasional references, in discussions cji naval armaments, to the German Naval Law. The German Navy Law of 1907 provides for the laying down in each ven-r from 1908 to 1911 of three battleships and one armoured cruiser; also in each year from ' 1912 to 1917 of one battleship nnd I one armoured cruiser: also in each : venr from 1908 to 1917 of two protected cruisers and one destroyer. New Zealand's public debt at 31st March. : 1910, amounted to £70,938531. the_ increase for the twelve months immediately preceding having been £4.484,637. Of this amount £1,200,000 wa« raised by way of public, works. £1.048,800 under the Advances to Settlers and Workers Ad, and C1.f100.000 under the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Purchase Act. £250,000 was raised under the Loans to Loc:il Bodies Act, and £211,495 under the Land for Settlements Act. Groat Britain's National Debt, on 31st March, 1909, stood at £751,121309, being a decrease of £5,704,742 bv comparison with the figures for ■Who year immediately preceding. 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 Britain' (£32,000,000). AGE OF HORSES AS SHOWN BY THEIR TEETH. A foail of six months has six grinders in each jaw, throe on each side; also six nippers of front teeth, with a cavity in each. At the age of ono year, ho loses the first milk grinders above and below, and front iteeth have their cavities filled up aliko to teeth 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 timo after the it wo next. At age of four years, grinders are six upon each side, and at about four and a-half his nippers are all permanent ones, by the replacing of remaining two corner teeth; tushes then appear, and he is no longer a colt At five a horse has tushes, and th'ore is a black-coloured cavity in centre of all his lower nippers^ At six this black cavity is obliterated in the two front lower nippers. At seven the cavities of the next two are filled up and tushes blunted ; and at eight the cavities of tho •two corner teeth are filled up. TTors'e may now be said to be aged. Cavities in nippers of _ upper jaw are not obliterated until the horse is about ten years 'old, after which tushes become round, and nippers projec.t and ohango their surface. TO ASCERTAIN THE WEIGHT ** OF CATTLE. Take tho measurement of the <rirth where it is smallest (close behind the shoulder) and the 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 the length in feet, a,nd 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 the girth of an animal in moderate eonditioin be 6ft, the length sftr 4in, then 6 x 6—36 x .51-3—192 x .24—47.08 stones. Tho foregoing is tho carcase weight of the animal. * The weight of the carcase would be about fof tho liv'o weight for cattle; for sheep, from 1-3 to 5; and for a pig, from J to 2 the livo weight.