Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 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. Thera are frequent trips to ports further south, such as Dunedin and The Bluff. Steamers leave Wellington for Sydney direct on Friday of every week, and anyone who finds that dav inconvenient mav get to Sydney from Auckland, whence a steamer leave* every Monday, after having voyaged up from Wellington via Napier and Gisbome. The inward steamers from Sydney to Wellington go on to southern ports, and from The Bluff they steam up to Melbourne and laiter on to Sydney. As a means of enabling the sender of a, letter addressed to a place abroad to prepay the postaga on a reply, the Department issues reply coupons on paymsnit of a fee of Id. These coupons may b« exchanged for a postage stamp of the value of 2}d in any country which adopts tho Sonoma. Now Zealand's population, inoludino! that of the Cook Islands and other dependencies, is now well over ono million. In June, 1008. the- estimated population 'of London was 4.795.757. The rateable value of property in En eland and Wales has risen each roar since 1874. The figures ara as follows:—

Tn 1874, £n.l.fl4fl.flSl. Tn 1888. £145.527.944. Tu 1804, fi161.t39.875. In 1908, £212, 757, 451 The 4otal rateable valno in 1874 represents an average of £4 17s 6d per head of population, while in 1908 the aver ago wns £6 Tier head. People are puzzled to know what \s meant by occasional references, in discussions on naval flrma.ments, +o the German Naval Law. The German Navy Law of 1907 pro vides for the Wing down in each vervr from 1908' to 1911 of thro« battleships and one Armoured cruiser: »!■■"> in ench year from inl2 to 1917 of one battleship n.nd on« p« , moii' , <»'l prui.qor • a lqo Jp pnch vear from 1908 to 1917 of two protc+ed ornisers> and one dcstrover. Now Zealand's public debt »t 31st Merck 1910, amounted to £70,938534. the increase for >tho twelve mon+hs immediately preceding having been £4.484.fi37. Of this an*ount. £1,200.000 vrns raised bv way of public works. £1.048,800 'under th'o Advances to Settlers and Work- «'•„ Act. and H 000.000 uivW the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Purchase Aet. £250,000 wns mined under the Local Bodies Aclfc, and £211,495 under tha Land for Settlement* Act. Great Britain's National Debt, on 31 ** March. 1009. stood at £754.191309, bein* a decroasa of £5,704,742 br comparison *d+b the fi<yur<"* for 'tihe ve«r immedJiatelv prececWnsr. Anr.'inst th?« wi»ri» set down assets totalling £37.100,000. the principal item h«»inor the estimated market vilno of +.T>p R"e7. Oanal shares owned bv Great Britain (£32.000.000).

AGE OF HORSES AS SHOWN JSY THETR TEETH. A foal of six months has RiV grinders in each jaw, throe on each side; also six nippers of front teeth, with a cavity in pach. At the arm of one year, he loses th« first mi'k 'prinders ahova and below. ,n,nd front t»eth have their cavities filled up alike to teeth of houses of eiVht years of aga. At aee of two >and a half to three years, he easts his two front uppers, and in a short time after the itwo nex+. At age of four venrs. grinders ara six upon pppli side, and a.t .about four and a-half his nippers are all permanent ones, bv i:ha replacing of remaining two pernor teeth : tushes tbop appear, and he is no longer a colt, At five t horse has tushes, ami th'orp i« >a cavity in centre of all b?R lower dippers. M six this black cavitv is obliterated in the two front lower nippers. At seven tho oavitieo of the next two ar<» filled up and tushes blunted : and at eirrht the oavitios of thp two corner teeth ara filled lirt. Hors'o m.av now b» an.id to be aired. Cavities in nippers of upper law are not obliterated until the horse is flboui ten years "old, after which tushes round. nn<l nippers project and change their surface. TO ASOF/RTATV TTTI? WEIGHT OF CATTLE. Taka iha wsasuremeßi #f the m'rih wher» it is smflllest (clos» behind th«» shonld#r) Mid th*« length of th» nnimal froas tho front of th« shoulder to th'» junction of the tnil. Mnlrinlv ihha sonar© of the Qfirth in feat a-ml Inehe* hv the length in feet, and multiply the nrodnpt by .23, .24, .26. .28. or .30. according to the fatness of the animal, and the result will give the weight in imperial stones. For instanpe. if the rn'r+.h of 'n animal in moderatp ponditioin be fift, tho Tonorth Kftr 4?n. tb*n fi x fl—S« x o 1-3-102 r .24-47.01 stones. The foregoing is parcaso weisrht of •tfia animal. Tha waight of +ho carcase would ha about fof the liV'e weisrht for cattle: for sheen, from 1-3 to 4: *>nd fo»- a pig, from J to | the live weight.