Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 July 1910, Page 1

Useful References

FOR TRAVELLERS AND STAY-

AT-HOME PEOPLE,

Steamers leave Wellington for Christchiireh practically every evening in the week. Afternoon trains from Levin, connect with . them. There ware frequent trips to porte further south, such as Drme<Tin and Tlie Bluff. Stnamer.s leave Wellington for Sydney direct on Friday of every week, and anyone who finds that <hy inconvenient lnav get to Sydney from Auckland, whence a steamer leaves every Monday, after having voyaged, up from Wellington via Napier and Gisborne. Tim inward steamers from -Sydney to Wellington so on to southern ports, and from The Bluff they steam up to Melbourne and laiter on to Svdney. As a means of enabling the sender of a letter addressed to a place abroad t-o nropay the postage on e. reply, the Department issues reply eoiinnns on paymenit of a fee of Id. These coupons may he exchanged for n postage stamp-ryf the value of 2Jd in any country .which adopts tho scheme. > ; New Zealand's population, inoludina: that of the Cook Islands and other denendeneios, is n'ow Well ovor ono million. Tn June-. 1908. the. rstim>nted ponulntion of London was 4,795.757. The rateable mine of property m England and Wales has risen each vear since 1874. The figures nrci ns follows:— Tn 1574, Tn 1888, £145.527.014, Tn 1804. C"!f>1.130.575. In 1008, £212, 757, 450. ' Tli'e 'total rate.ahle value in 1874- represniiits an average of £4 17s 0d ner head of population, while in 1908 the average was £& Per head. People, are puzzled to know what is meant hy occasional references, in discussions an naval nrmn.triemts, to the German Naval Law. The Gprman Navy Law of 1907 provides for the Wilis down in each vear from 1908' to 1911 of three hattleships and ono armoured cruiser; also in each year from 1912 to 1917 of one h.THlosh'ip and onp nnnournrl rrui. , " s '*: in each rear from 1008 to 1917 of two protected cruisers and one dostrover. N(mv /Anlnnd's puhlic debt at 31st March. 1010, amounted to £70.038534. the increase for ../the 'tweivto months immedijitelv preceding havinsr heen ff.484.(137. Of this amount €1.200.000 was raised hy way of rvuhlic works. C 1 .048.800 -under th'o Advances to Settlers and Wqrkov<! Act. and 000.000 under ihe Wollinffton and Manawatu T?ailwav Pnrcha«e Act. £250.000 wni rfli«od unrVr + 1 '" Loc.nl -Bndiefl Act. and £211.405 under the Land for Settlements Act. Gjwt Tlritm'n's National Deht. on 31st March, 1000. stood a.t £754.121309, beinc a decrease of £5,704.742 'tv comparison v-i+h the- figures ,for ; Wie year immedliately precedunff. Affainst this were set down assets totalling £37.100.000. the princtnal item heini; the ostimated market vnlue of ifhe Rneps Canal shares owned hy Great Britain (£32.000.000).

AGE OF HfmSTCS AS SHOWN BY

THETT? TEETH/ A foal of six -months has MX srrinders in each jaw, three on each side; also six nippers of front teeth, with n cavity in each. At tho of ,0110 year, ho loses the first milk frindorq above and below. rwwl front teeth have', their eavities filled up alike to. teeth of horses of eiorht 'wars of ace. ■ At, atc of twn nll d a ha,lf to three years., he easts his two: front uppers. and in a short timo. after tho two next. At flfjo of four Tears, grinders nre six nnon each side, and at.about four and in-half his nippers are all permanent ones, by the ronkioin<r of remaining two corner teeth ; tushes th'Mi appear, and he is no longer a eol t, At five a horse has tushes, and there is ',a hlaek-eoloured cavity in centre of all his lower nippers. At six this hi nek cavity is obliterated in the two front-lower nippers': ' • ; At seven the cavities nf tlie next two are filled up and tushes; blunted ; and at eirrlit, the on v-ities' of the two corner teeth aw filled* un. TTorsW mav now he to bp nsrerl. Cavities i" nippers of npnor jaw | ire not -obliterated ,nu£il. the horse is mliout ten ■oldj."iafterv which tushes' be'eomo round.' and -nippers project and change their surface'; TO ASCERTAIN THE WEIGHT OP CATTLE. • : Take tho measurement' of the Girth where it is smallest (close liehind the shoulder) and the of the animal frorh_ tlie fr&nt of the shoulder to the junction;of the tail. Multiply thhe square {of the girth in .feet; and; "inches _by tho length in feet, a,rid multiply the product by .23, .24,. .26., .28,j0r .30, according to tho' fatness pf the animal, and the result; will give the weight in imperial stones. For inr stance, if tho girth of an animal iu moderate conditioin .be 6ft, the length sftr 4in„ them. 6. x 6>— 36 x 51-3—192 x .24—47.08" stoned. The foregoing is the carcase weighlfc ...of (the animal. The. weight of the carcase -would be about. |of the li/e weight for cattle; for. sheepj from 1-3 to |; and for a pig, from £ to f the live weight. '