Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 July 1910, Page 1

Useful References

« FOR TRAVELLERS AND STAY-AT-HOME PEOPLE. Steamers leave Wellington for Ohristchurcli practically every evening in the week. Afternoon trains from Levin connect with them. There are frequent trips to ports further south, such as Dunedin and Tlie 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 Wellington go on to southern ports, and from The Bluff tihey steam up to-Melbourne and latter on to Sydney. As a means of enabling the sender of a letter addressed to a place abroad to prepay the postage on « reply, the Department issues reply coupons on payment of a foe of Id. These coupons may he exchanged for «a postage sitamp of the value of 2.|d in any country which adopts the schome. New Zealand's population, including that of the Cook Islands and other dependencies, is n'ow well over one million. Tn .Tune, 1 DOS. the estimated population 'of London was 4,795,757. Tlie rateable value of property in England and Wales has risen each vear since 1874. Tho figures are lis follows Tn 1874, £115.040,031. Tn 1888, £145.527.944. Tn 1891. £161.139,575. Tn 1908, £212, 757, 450. Th'o 'total rateable value in 1874 represents an average of £4 17s 6d per head of population, while in 1908 the average was £6 per head. People are puzzled to know what is meant by occasional references, in discussions an naval armaments, to the German Naval Law. Tlie German Navy Law of 1907 provides for the laying down in each venr from 1908 to 1911 of three, battleships and ono armoured cruiser; also in each year from 1010 In 1017 nf I>.niflneljin nnd one armoured cruiser: also in each vear 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 b n e'i £4.484.037. Of this amount £1.200.000 was raised by way of public works. £1.048.800 under the Advances to Settlers and WorkW. :, n d non nnn nn'W +iw. Wellincrton and Manawntn T?nilwnv n-i,vh!»<••« Act fonn.nnn „,1 ~,,,10" Mw> T.O'.ik tri T„0"l1 TWIIVn A?#, and C 211.495 under the Land for Settlements Act. Grr.it Britain's National Debt. on 31st March, 1909. stood at £754.121309. being a decrease of £5.704,742 liv comparison v-i+b +be figures for the vear immedliatelv preceding. Against this were set down assets totalling £37.100,000. the princinal item being the estimated market, rnlno of the Suez Oanal shares owned .by Great Britain (£32,000,000). AGE OE HOUSES AS SHOWN BY THETR TEETH. A foail of six months has rax; grinders in each jaw, three on each side: also six nippers of front teeth, with a cavity in each. At the of one year, he loses tl" 1 first milk crinders nbove and below, fwd front teeth have their cavities filled up alike to teeth of horsp.s of eight years of age. At acre of two and a half to three years, he casts his two front nnpers. and in a short time after the two next. At age of four rears, grinders nro six "rion oncb side, and at about four and a-half his nippers are all nerinaiiient ones, bv the renlaeincr of i'°m.m'ninc: two oornor teeth : tushes then appear, and he is no longer a colt Ait five n lior.se lias tnshos. and there is a bln"k-coloured cavity in centre of nil his lower nippers. At, sir f'is black cavitv is obliterated in the two front lovreir nipPPl'.s. At s n "e'i +1>« cavities of the next Wo afe filled up and tushes blunted : and at the cavities of the ■Hvo corner teetli aro filled nr>. TTnv.sW mav now be said to be aced. Cavities i" nipperq of upper iaw ovo vvnt /itlitern.tpd until +Tio Imrco !« .ibniit ten vears 'old. after which tliclinq l)Qn.T!iio TO'lll d. find "lOPOr?

nrr>ipo+ .«r»c! n»Vnnorf» +I>nJr cnrfooo TO ASCERTAIN THE WEIGHT OF CATTLE. Take tfclio measurement of the girth whore it is smallest (close behind the shoulder) and the length of the animal from the > front of the shoulder to the junction of the tail. Multiply tlihe square of tho girth in feet and inches by tho length in feet, and multiply the product by .23, .24, .26, .28, or .30, according 'to tho fatness pf the animal, and the result will give the weight in imperial stones. For instance, if the girth of an animal in moderate conditioin he 6ft, the length sftr 4in, then 6 x 6—36 x 51-3—192 x .24—47.08 stones. Tlio foregoing is tho carcase weight of .the animal. Tlie weight of the carcase would he about £of the liVo weight for cattle; for sheep, from 1-3 to J; and for a pig, from \ to J the live weight.