Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 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 and The Bluff. Steamers leave Wellington for Sydney direct on Friday of every 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 iand Gisborne. The,inward steamers from Sydney to Wellington go on to southern ports, and from Tho Bluff they steam up to Melbourne and later on to Sydney. As a means of enabling tho 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 exehanged for n postage stamp of the value of 2id in any country which adopts the scheme. New Zealand's population, including that of the Cook Islands and other dependencies, is n'ow well over on a million. Tn .Tune, 1908. the estimated population 'of London was 4.795,757. The rateable value of property in Ensjl-nnd And Wales has risen etaoh vear since 1874. The figures nr* as follows:— In 1874, £115.646.631. Tn 1888. £145.527,044. In 1894. £161.180,575. In 1908, £212, 757, 450. Th'e total rate<ablo valua in 1874 represents an average of £4 17s 6d ner head of population, while in 1908 the average w«s £6 per head. People are puzzled to know what is meant by occasional references, in discussions on naval Armaments, to the German Naval Law. The Herman Navy Law of 1907 provides for the laying down in each ven.r from 1908 to 1911 of three battleships and one armoured Tuiser: also in each year from 1012 to 1017 of one Imfflesh'io anr 1 onf> fi''moi7r»'T orn?.<:•»»• • fn venr from 1908 to 1917 of two p*-o-teeted eruisors and one destrover. New ZwtWrid'a public debt at 31st Mflreh. 1910. amounted to £70.038534. the increase for >tho twelve months immediately preceding having been £4.484.637. Of this amonnt £1,200.000 was raised by way of public works. £1.048.800 under tlib Advances to Soft,l era and Work- <"•* Aef, gnd £1.000 000 htkW +he Wellinqfton a.nd Manawatu Railway T'nrehase Aei. £250.000 was raised under t-Tm Lo^ns'to Local Bodies Aelfc, and £211,495 under the Land for Settlements Act. Great Britain's National Debt, on 31st March, 1909, stood at £754.121309, being a decrease of £5,704,742 bv co7nparison with the ficures for t/he year immedliatelr precccMng. Atrainst this were set down assets £37.160,000. the principal item being the estimated market value of (the Suez Oanal shares owned by Great Britain (£32,000,000). AGE OF HORSES AS SHOWN HY THETR TEETH. k of six months has siV erinders in each jaw, three on each side; also six nippers of front teeth, with a cavity in each. At the a;re of one year, he loses t-Tifl first milk prinders above and bel'ow, pmd front teeth have their eavities filled up alike to teeth of horses of eight y&ars of age. At atre of two and a half to three years, he casta his two front uppers, and in a short time after the (two next. At age of four years, grinders are six upon each side, and at about four and a-half his nippers are all permanent ones, by the replacing of remaining two corner teeth: tushes then appear, and he is no longer a colt Ait fire a horse has tushes, and there is « blaek-coloured eavity in centre of all his lower nippers. .4* six this black cavity is obliterated in tho two front lower nippers. At seven the cavities of the next two are filled up and tushes blunted ; and at eielit the eavities of the comer teeth are filled up. Hors'e, tnav now he said to he anred. Cavities in nippers of upper jaw are not obliterated until the is «bon+ ten years 'old. ia.f+er which tushes becom# round, nnd nippers project aind ohang# their snrfaeo. TO ASCFiTtTATN TUT* WEIGHT •F OATTLH. Take th» measurement of tjbe trirth Trher#, it ia smallest (close behind the shoulder) and the length of the nnimal fro* tbe front' of t/h« shoulder to th'« junction of the tail. Multiply thhe sou are of the girth in feet and inches bv tho lencrth in feet, and multiply the product hv .23, .24, .26, .28, or .30. according to th'o fatness of the animal, and the result will give the weight in imperial stones. For instance. if th'e fnrth of an animal in moderate conditioin he 6ft, the lentrtfi sftr 4in. then 6 x 6—36 x 51-3—102 x .24—47.08 stones. Tho foregoing is t.h» carcase weight of the animal. The weight of the carease would be about sof the live weight for cat-tie; for sheep, from 1-3 to I; and for a pig, from J to J the live weighjfc. I