Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 July 1910, Page 1

Useful References

FOR TRAVELLERS AND STAY-AT-HOME PEOPLE. Steamers leave Wellington for Christchurch practically every evening in tho week. Afternoon trains from Levin connect with them. Thero aro frequent trips to ports further south, such as Dunedin and The Bluff. Steamers leave Wellington for Sydney direct on Friday of overy 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 Tho Bluff 'they steam up to Melbourn'o and lalter on to Svdney. 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 exchanged for n postage sitamp of_ the value of 2Jd in any country which adopts tho scheme. New Zealand's population, including that of the Cook Islands and other dewndencics, is now well over ono million. Tn .Tune. 1908, tho estimated population 'of London was 4,795,757. The rateable value of property in England and Wale.t has risen each year since 1874. The figures arfr as follows: — Tn 1874, £115.646,631. Tn 1888, £145,527,944. Tn 1894. £161.139,575. Tn 1908, £212, 757. 450. Th'oitotal rateable value in 1874 represents an average of £4 17s Gd 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. The German Navy Law of 1907 provides for the laying down in each year from 1908 to 1911 of three battleships and one armoured cmiser; also in each year from IP 12 t" 1917 ef. battleship .and one armoured cruiser: also in eneh year from 1908 to 1917 of two protected and one destroyer. New Zealand's public debt at 31st March. 1910, amounted +o £70,938534. the* increase for the tweVo months immediately preceding having boon £-1.484.637. Of this amount £1,200,000 was raised by way of public works, £1.018,800 under the Advances to Settlers and Workers Act. and £1.000.000 under the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Purchase Act. £250,000 was raised under the Loans'to Local Bodies Aclt, 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 tho figures for Itlh'e year immedliat'e-ly preceding. Against this were sot down assets totalling £37.100,000, the principal item being the estimated market value of 4ihe Suez Canal shares owned by Great Britain- (£32,000,000). AGE OF HORSES AS SHOWN BY THETR TEETH. A foail of six months has sax' grinders in each jaw, throe on each side; also six nippers of front teeth, with a cavity in each. At the nge of ono year, ho loses the first milk grinders above and below, aiiid front tooth have their cavities filled up aliko to teeth of horses of eight years of age. At aire of two mud a half to three years, he casts his two front uppers, and in a short timo after the /two next. At age of four years, grinders are six upon each side, and .at about four and a-half his nippers aro all permaiiient ones, by the replacing of remaining two corner teeth; tushes then appear, and he is no longer a colt At five a horso has tushes, and (there 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 aro filled up. Hors'o 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 project and change their - surface. TO ASCERTAIN THE WEIGHT OF CATTLE. Take itlie measurement of the girth where 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 thlie square of the girth in feet aind 'inches by tho length in feet, n,nd multiply the product by .23, .24, .26,-'.28, or .30, according to tho fatness *bf the animal, and the result will give the weight in imperial stones. For instance, if th'o girth of an animal in moderate conditioin be 6ft, the length sftr 4in, then 6 x 6—36 x 51-3—192 x .24—47.08 stones. The foregoing is the carcase weiglilt of ithe animal. The weight of the carcase would be about fof the liVo weight for cattle; for sheep, from 1-3 to f; and for a pig, from J to f the live weight.