Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 July 1910, Page 1

Useful References

FOR TRAVELLERS AND STAY-AT-HOME PEOPLE. Steamers leave Wellington fo!r Christchurch practically every evening in the week. Afternoon trains from Levrn- connect with them. There are frequent trips to_ ports further south, such as Dunedin and" The Bluff. Steamers leave 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 and Gisborne. The.inward steamers from Sydney to WelliiiErton go on to southern ports, and from The Bluff 'they steam up to Melbourne and latter on to Sydney.

As a means of enabling the sender of a letler addressed to a place abroad to prepay tho postage on a reply, the Department issues reply coupons on payment of a fee of Id. These coupons may be exchanged for a postage sit amp of the value of 2Jd in any country which adopts tho scheme.

New Zealand's population, incliidinc: that of the Cook Islands nnd other dennndencies, is ivow well over one million. Tn June. 1008. the estimated population of London was 4.795,757. Tho rateable value of property in England Wales has risen each year since 1874. Tho figures art ns follows:— Tn 1874, .-ei15.f546.631. Tn 1888, £145,527,944. Tn 1894, £101.139,575. Tn 1908, £212. 757, 450.

Th'o (total rateable value in 1874 reprosewhs an average of £4 17s Gd per head of population, while in 1908 the average w«s £0 per head.

People- are puzzled to know what \s meant by occasional references, in discussions an naval larmmmenTts, to ill p. German Naval Law. Tlie German Navy Law of 1907 provides for the laying clown in each vpnr from 1908' to' 1911 of throe, battleships and one armoured cruiser; also in each ytoir from 1912 to 1917 of one battloshin juul one armoured cniispr: also in each voar from 1908 to 1917 of two protected cruisers and one d'estrover.

New Zealand's public debt at 31st March. 1910, amounted to £70.938531. tii increase for /the twelve months immediatelv preccdinsr having linen C 1 .48-1.037. Of this nlrount £1.200.000 wnx raised by way of public works. €1.018,800 'under Mi , p. Advances to Settlers and Work- <"•* Aft. nnd 01.000.000 nmW +bo Wellinrrfon and Mnmwntu Railway P'irclin«p .Aft. £250.000 was rais-

"1 under t'-p Lnins to Local Rndip.i Acit. and C 211.495 under the Land 'or Settlements Act.

Ore-nt Britain's National Deht. on 31st March. 1909. stood at £754,121309. being a decrease of £5,704,742 bv coiinnnrison witb tlio fisruros for tJIiP year immedliatcly Aornins-fc tin's were set down assets totaling £37.1fi0,000. the principal item bpinff the estimated market

value of if.lie Suez Canal sliares owned by Great Britain. (£32,000,000). AGE OF HOUSES AS SHOWN BY THETR TEETH. A foail of six months has six , grinders in each jaw, throe on each side: also six nippers of front teelUi, witb n rnvltv in pacli.

At the ncre of one year, he loses the first milk frinders nhove, nnd below, n<nd front teeth have their cavities filled up alike io teetli of horses of eight years of age.

At acre of two mid n hnlf to three years, he casts his two front unper.s, and in a short timo after the >two next.

At aae of four vearß. grinders ore six upon onch side, and n.t about four and 'fi-lmlf In's nippers are all nonnniipnt ones, by the replncinir of remaining two oonior teetli: tushes thpu appear, and ho is no longer a colt.

Ait five n horse has tushes, and "there is >n Itinck-coionrcd cavity in centre of nil bis lower nippers.

At six this blnck cavity is obliterated in the two front lower .nippers. At seven tDre cavities of the next two are filled un nnd tushes blunted : ariid nt eieht the cavities of tho .hro corner teeth nrp. filled un. TTors'c mnv now he said to he aired. CnvihiVs i" nipnors of upner inw nre not obliternitod until the horse is flbout ten years old, infter which t.nsh ps b°comp round, nnd nippers proiect niiid cilrnntro tbeir surfnep. TO ASCERTAIN THE WEIGHT OF CATTLE. Take ifcho measuremenit of the girth whore it is smallest (close behind the shoulder) and the length of the animal the_ front of the shoulder to tho junction of the tail. Multiply thhe square of the girth in feet a/nd Inches <by tho 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 woight in imperial stones. For instancc, if tho girth of an animal in moderate eonditioin be 6ft, th© length sftr 4in, thon 6 x G—36 x 51-3—192- x .24—47.08 stones. The foregoing is the carcase weighlt of itlie aniniwal. Tlie weight of the carcase would be about fof the liveweight for cattle; for aheep, from 1-3 to f; and for a pig, from J to tlve live weight.