Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 August 1910, Page 1

Useful References

FOR TRAVELLERS AND STAY-AT-HOME PEOPLE. Steamers leave Wellington for Ohristchurch practically every evening in the week. Afternoon trflins from Levin connect with them. There are frequent trips to ports further south, such aa Dunedin and Tho Bluff. Steamers leavo 'Wellington for Sydney direct on Friday of every week, arid anyone who finds tbflt dav inconvenient mnv set to Sydney from Auckland, whence a steamer leaves every Monday, n.fter having voyaged np from Wellington via Napier and Gi'sborne. The inward steamers from Sydney to Wellington so on to srtuthern ports, and from The Bluff they steam up to Melbourne and laJt«r on to Svdney. As a means of enabling; the sender of a letter addressed to a plaee abroad to prepay the postage on ft reply, -fche Department issues reply ooupoua on payment of a foe of Id. These coupons nray be exchanged for io postage stamp of the value of 2ld in any country which adopts the scheme. Npw Zealand's population, including that of the Cook Islands and other denondencies, is now well oxer one million. Tn June. 1508. ihe eeMroaW! population 'of London was 4.795,757. The rateable value of property in Encclfliul and Wales has risen each Ypifir since 1874. The figures ar& as follows :—

Tn 1R74, 511f1.n46.nai. Tn I*BB, £14.1.«97,9.14. Ta 1804, £161.1*9,37?;. •In 1908, £212. 757, 459. Tho total rateable value in 1874 rep••ospmrte an average of £4 17s 6d r>or lioad of population, while in 1908 the average was £6 per hood. People- orq puzzled to know whnt <a r>iannt by occasional references, in discussions oji naval larmame-p+s, +o the Gorman Naval Law. The Oorrnari N«vy Law of 1907 provides for tn« laying down in each vei.r from 1903' to 1911 of tlin'p bntj+leships and one armoured cruiser; al«o in eaeb ypflr frow 1012 to IPI7 of one batflosin'p sno , ryrtf. n r niour»'l enii.e»r: also in each vpar from 1908 to 1917 of two pro-f/v-forl and one destrorer. Now 7><\ihmVs public debt at. SI at "Morcli. 1910. o.moimted to £70.938?&i. fJi*> for +It> twelve months immp'liatpV prororiintr having boon -P4.<!R4 R37. Of this amoun+ £1.200.d00 woe raistvl by way of public works. £1.0-18.800 nrnler the- jAfivance.i to Settlers and Work-r-'-n \rt. nud nw.nw w-Vr +b.» Wfill.'fiff+on and Mpiswntu Bailwav P-.irchn' l, ? Act. C?. r io.ono wn.s rn\*. A'l ,iriflor T/<"il ß 4-n T A"al Bidi"l Ar-ft. nnri £911.490 under the Land for RottioPNvnta Art. Ornnt Britain's National "PoM. on Sl*t Ma roll. 1009. stowl at £7M.191309, beini? u decrease of £5,704,742 hv eoTnpnri'on ■o-'+ii +lie fiffnro* for tine TPflr TfreowVnf?. A or.''list thi' *'f»r»» qpit down asset/ 1 Mnllinor £37.1f)0,00O. thr prineipal i+om hfincf +.hp markot of tilie S"pt: CLansl plicre 1 * ownod by Grent Pritain AGE OF f7rmSF* a *S SHOWN UY THFiTR TEETH. A foal of six months hm s«V nrrindere in each jaw, three on oaoh sidfl; also six nippers of front teath, with a cavity in each. At the aeo of one year, he loses tii* first rnilk orinder* sboTe nnd below, a.rid front "t-octh here their "n-vities filipd up alike ito teeth of horses of eisrbt years of age. At acre of two mpd » ]mlf to three years, he east* his two front! uppers, and in n short timo after thn .two Ti'eT-4. At age of four yearn, grinders sro six npnp eaob side, and a,t nhont four and n-half his tiippers are all nermainent ones, hv the replevin z of •■omflininsr two corner teeth : tushes +.h«m appear, and he is no longer a colt, Aft fire fl Tior.so has tushee. and there is a hlnok-ooloured canity in centre ef all bis lower nippers. At six this blnot cavity is oblitoratod in the two front lower nippers. At seven the cavities of the next two are filled up and tushes blnnt<m\ : QJid at eiVlit the ravitipa of tho % corner teeth are filled up. mav now b« said to be ared. On.vities in nippori of lmoer jaw <?re pot oblitern.fed vutil +.he ia oboiii ten years after which beeom* roupd. an<l ■pippera proieei and oTianow their 8»rfao». TO ABCISHTATN TW« WHTGHT OF CATTLE. Tike tJi* veajiurovicni of ttoe ffir+Vi where ii it am*ll»»flt fclo«e b*the shoulder) and tho length of the enimal frosa the front of tli« -to tfi« junction of the +.»il. Multiply tnhe souare of the ojirt.h in ff*«t and Inche* bv +be lenirth in nnd multiply the nroduot hy .23, .24, .2R, .28. or .30. according -to tJi'e fatr«3s of the animal, and the result will pive tho woieht in imperial stones. For ins+anee. if th'e- mr+.Ti o f on in moderaio eonditioin be Bffc. the lonorth Sftr 4iti. th»r) R t 6—JW t 51-8-102 x .24-47.08 atones. is oaroaee w«ie:nt of the animei. The w&igfct of +he oorease would be about fof the liv'o for cattle: for sheep, from 1-3 t/> 4: nnd for n pig, f rO m J to f the live weight.