Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 2 August 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 from Levin, connect with them. There are frequent trips to_ ports further south, such as Dunedin nwT Tho Bluff. Steamers leavo Wellington for Sydney direct on Friday of every week, and anyone who finds that day inconvenient mav get to Sydney from Auckland, whence a. steamer leaves every Monday, after having voyaged up from Wellington via Napier and Gishorne. The.inward steamers from Sydney to Wellington go on to southern ports, and from The Bluff they steam up to Melbourne And later 011 to Svdney. As a means of enabling the sender of a letter addressed to a place abroad to prepay the postage 011 a reply, the Department issues reply coupons on payment of a fee of Id. These coupons may be exchanged for a postage stamp of the value of 2\d in any country which adopts tho scheme. New Zealand's population, including that of the Cook Islands and other dependencies, is now well over ono million. Tn .Tune, 1008. tho estimated population of London was 4.705,7/57. The rateable value of property in England and Wales has risen each year since 1871. The figures as follows:— Tn 1874. £115.616,631. Tn 18S8, £145.527,044. Tn 1804. £161.130.575. Tn 1008, £212, 757, 450. The total rateable value in 1874 represonts.an average of £4 17s Od per head of population, while in 1008 the average was £6 per head. People are puzzled to know what is meant hy occasional references, in discussions an naval armaments, to the German Naval Law. Tho German Navy Law of 1007 provides for the laving down in each ven.r from 100 P to 1011 of three battleships and ono armoured cruiser; also in each year from 1012 to 1017 of one battleship and one armoured cruiser: in each vear from 1008 to 1017 of two protected cruisers and one destrover.

New Z>vilan.d's public debt at. 31st Vnrch. 1010, amounted to £70.038531. the increase for Hie twelve months immediatelv preceding having b'-en 01, !R 1.637. Of this ainount f!1.200.000 was 7'ais»d hy way of p'iblic works. C1.01R.800 under the. Advances to Settlers and Work„vq V-t. and H. 000.000 un f ler the Wellington and Mnnnwntn Railwav Purchase Act. rono.oon W-C r .n!'•-■■ o'l under +lu> T.o'hi.s to T/h"'l Bodi<"i Act. and C 211.105 under the Land for Settlements Act.

Groat Britain's Nation,nl Debt. 011 31st March, lf'oo. stood n.t -!?7nf.12130D. being a decrease of €5.701.712 bv comparison with tho figures for 'tiho tmt immodliate-lv preceding. Acrainst this were set. down assets totalling C.'] 7.100,000, the principal item beinq; the estimated market value of .the Suez Canal shares owned by Great Britain (C 32.000,000). AGE OF HORSES AS SHOWN JiY THETR TEETH. A foail of sax months has wix grinders in each jaw. three on each side; also six nippers of front teeth, with a cavity in each. At the acre of one vear, 110 loses the first milk rrinders above and below, aiiid front teeth have their envitics filled up alike to teeth of horses of eight velars of age. At aire of two .and a Ten.lf to three years, he casts his two front uppers, and in a short timo after the it wo next. At 'ago of four years, grinders are six upon each side, and at about four and ia-hnlf his nippers are all permanent ones, by the replacing of remaining two corner teeth : tushes flien appear, and he is no longer a colt Aft five a horse 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 tho next two are filled up and tushes blunted ; and at eight the cavities of tho •two corner teeth aro filled up. Horse mav now he said to he 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 tho measurement of tho girth where it is smallest (close behind the shoulder) and tho length of tho animal the front of tho shoulder to the junction of tho tail. Multiply tlihe square of the girth in feet and inches hy tho length in feet, and multiply the product by .23, .24, .26, .28, or .30. according to the fatness of tho 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. Tho foregoing is tho carcase woighit of the animal. The weight of the carcase would be about Jof the livo weight for cattle; for sheep, -from 1-3 to and for a pig, from J to 3 the live weight.