Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 July 1910, Page 1

Useful References

FOR TRAVELLERS AND STAY-AT-HOME PEOPLE. Steamers leave Wellington for Christchurch practically every evening in the week. Afternoon trains froin Levin 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 overy week, atnd anyone who finds that day inconvenient may get to Sydney from Auckland, whence n steamer leaves every Monday, after having voyagod up from Wellington via Napier and Gisborne. The inwaVd steamers from Sydney to Wellington go on to southern ports, and from The "8111 fT they steam up to Melbourn'o and 1 alter 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 he exchanger! for a postage sitamp of the value of 2'd in any country which adopts thn scheme. New Zealand's population, including that of the Cook Islands mid other dependencies, is now well over onn million. Tn .Tunc. 1908. the estimated population of London was 4.795.757. Tlie rat en Me value of property in England and Wales has risen each vear since 1871. The figures are us follows: — Tn 1874, £115.040.031. Tn 1888. £145.527.914. Tn 1891. C 101.139.575. Tn 1908. £212. 757, 450. The total rateable value in 1874 rcproswts an average of £4 17s (5(1 per bead of population, while in 1908 the average was CO 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 proI vides for the laying down in each venr from 1908 to 1911. of throe battleships and ono armoured cruiser: also in eneb year from 'tnl2 to 1917 of one battleship and one nrmour"d cruiser: al«o in each vear from 1908 to 1917 of two protected cruisers and one dest rover. New Zealand's public debt at 31st /March. 1910. amounted to £70.938531. the increase for the twelve months immediatelv preceding baring b'HMi PJ. (81.037. Of this amount £1.200.000 was raised by way of public works. £1.018.800 under flic. ,Adv.nnccs to Settlers and Work\r.f. mi'! n nnn nnn the Wellington and Mnn.mvntu Railwav P..r"bn«,» A et. C 250.000 u*n« iv)icnrl I7nrlnl- +1» n T," "11<3 f O T,OCa 1 Pn'ljotl A fit. a"d £211.495 under the Land for Settlements Act. Great Britain's National Debt, oil 31st March. 1909. stood at £754.121309. being a decrease of £5.704.742 bv comparison v-Hh tbo figures for fJhe vear immedliat'ely preceding. Against this were set down assets totalling £37.100.000, the principal item being the estimated market value of the Suez Canal shares owned by Great. Britain (£32.000.000).

AGE OF HOUSES AS SHOWN BY THEIR TEETH. A foail of snx months ' has six grinders in each jaw, three on each •side: also six nippers of front teeth. with a caritr in earh. At the ace of one year, ho loses

tlx* first milk prinders nhore and helow. nmd front teeth hnre their parities fill or! np alike to teeth of horses of eiqrht years of nee. At. arte of two wl n hnlf to throe rears. he easts his two front! nnpurs. and in ,a short time n-ftcir the it wo next. At fltxe of four rears, "Tinders ire six "onn each side, and n.t alvont four and .n-lmlf his nippers are nil permanent. ones, hy the ropkveincr of vpm.ninin2 two eornor teeth: tnshes th<m appear, and he is no longer a rolt, At five n horse has tnshes. ami tli'ore is ta hlapk-eolonml rarity in eentre of nil his lower nipoers. At, ,si\- this hlaelc rarity is ohliternWl in the two front, loweir nipnprft. At seven th" parities of the next two are filled np and tn.shes hlnntorl; an.d at the oaritiVs of the ■f-wo corner teeth are filled nri. TTov.c'a nxnv now he said to he afed. C-ivities i' l niortors of upner jaw "m 11 of ohli+eralted nnt.il the is .nltonf ton rears 'old. flftor whieh lnslio.s h n einro round, and nipp'ers liminpt ""d p,Vr>r>orp tlinir .enrf/tno'. TO ASCERTAIN THE "WEIGHT OF CATTLE..

Take tho measurement of the girth whore it is sm-allest (close belli ml the shoulder) and the length of the animal from the' front of the shoulder to the junction of the tail. Multiply thlie square of the girth in feet a/ml inches _by tho length in feet, a.nd multiply the product by .23, .24, .26, .28, or .30, according to tho fatness of the animnl, and the _ result will give the weight in imperial stones. For instance, if tho girth of an Animal in moderate conditioin be 6ft, the length sftr 4in, thon 6 x 6—3(5 x 51-3—192 x .24—47.08 stones. Tho foregoing is tho carcase wcightt of tha animal. The weight of the carcase would be about 3of tho livo weight for cattle; for sheep, from 1-3 to g ; and for a pig, from \ to 3 the live weight.