Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 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 tripe 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 day inconvenient nvav get to Sydney from Auckland, whence a steamer leaves every Monday, after having voyaged up from Wellington via Napier and Gieborne. The,inward steamers from Sydney to Wellington go on to southern ports, and from Tho Bluff tihey steam up to Melbourne and Liter on to Sydney. As a means of enabling the sender of a letter addressed to o place abroad to prepay tho postage on a reply, the Department issues reply coupons on payment of a fee of ldL These coupons may be exchanged for a postage s)ta.mp of the value of B|d in any country which adopts the sohom*. New Zealand's population, ineluding ihai of the Cook Islands and other dependencies, is now well over one million. Tn June, 1908, the estimated ponulati'on 'of London was 4,705,757. The rateable value of property in Hngland end Wales has risen onch renr sinoe 1874. The figures are as follows:— Tn 1574, £11.1.648.631. Tn 1888. £145.527.944. Tn 1804, £161.139,575. In 1908, £212, 757, 450. The rtotal rateable value in 1874 reprpermit* an average of £4 17s 6d per hoad of population, while in 1908 the average was £6 per hoad. People are puzzled to know what is moani by occasional references, in discussions on naval firmaments, fo the Gorman Naval Law. The CJprman Navy Law of 1907 provides for the laying down in each ven.r from 1908' to 1911 of three battleships nnd one mrmourecT cruiser; nl.«n in each year from 1912 to 1917 of one hatfleship ami

on? prinoiT , *'! prni.^pr: nlso in enrb voar from lf)OR t-o 1917 of two pro-tct-ed cruisers an<l one destrovor. Nev Zealand's public debt »t, 31st Mnreb. 1910, amonntorl to £70,938534. Wip incrpflKe v for >tlin tweVo montlis immediatolv prerMinfr hnrinsr .-P4.4R4.fi37. Of tin's nmonnt £1.200.000 was raised by way of public works. £1.048,800 nmW tli'o A<l vanoPß -to Sntilers and "Wo'rk«re Act and -C 1 .000.000 ihkW tlio "WolKnffton and Manawatu Railway Puro.liiiKo Art. £250.000 was raised under t-beTrfvmstoLocal Bodine Act, mid £911.495 under the Land for SottlairNMitfl Aoi. Grpat Britain'e N»tion«l T)»bt. on 31.si Marcb, 1900, stood «t €754.191309. being a decrease of • hv pom pardon v!+.li tbH finriir<».« for 'tiTte 7mt immedKa-felr prpcecMno;. Affflinst tinV *"i«r«» net down assets totalling £37.160,000. the princinnl it-om beino: t.be wtimfltiHl mark'ot, mine of ft.lie Rnpz Oanal owned by Grpnt Uritnini (£32,000,000).

AGE OF TTOnSEfJ AS SHOWN BY THEIR TEETH. A foal of six months has isix , srrinders in eaoh jaw, three on each aide; also six -nippers of front .teeth, with n rarity in eaoh. At the age of one year, ho loses th« first milk grinders ahovo and below, amA front teeth have their rarities Blled up alike bo teeth of horsee of eight rears of age. At age of two and a half to three yenrs. he caste hia two front upper*, and in a ehort time after the two n'exi. At > age of four yearn, grinders are six upon eaoh side, and a.t nhont four and m-half his -nippers are nil permanent ones, by the replacing of remaining two comer teeth; tnshes then appear, and he is no longer a colli Alt 4t» • horse has tushes, and there j> « blaok-eolourod oarity in centre of all big lower (nippers. A\ r\x this black carity is obliterated) in the two front lower nippers. Ai eeven t>he cavities of tho next two ar« filled up and tushes blunted : aiml at eisrht the oavitips of tho ■two corner teeth are filled iro. Horsh mar now he said to be aged. Cavities in nippers of upper jaw are not obliterated ontil the horse is about ten years 'old, after which tushes boom* .round, ami nippers project mi ehang* tliair surface. TO ASOHSRTITN TTTU WEIGHT OP OATTLB. Tt':# it«h« measurement of the tnj-th wher* vi la smallfisi (close -behind Mh» ehowldtr) tod the length of the nnimal froie Hi* front of tii'« ehonMer to the junction of the tn.il. Multiply ihhe eouare of the Qlirth in fe»i eind inches hy the length in feet, and multiply the product by .23, .24, .26, .28, or .30 according to the fatnws of the animal, and the result will give the weight in imperial stones. For instance, if the m'rth of an sini'ma] in moderate conditioin he 6ft, the lenorti Sfir 4iti. then 6 x 6—36 x 0 1-3—103 x .Q4-47.0* stones. The forecoiny is tW c«roa«* weight of •the animal. The WMjit of +Jie carcase would he ahout frvf the live weight for cattle; for sheep, from 1-3 to I: and for a pig, from J to f the live weight.

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