Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 August 1910, Page 1

Useful References

—« FOR TRAVELLERS AND STAY-AT-HOME PEOPLE. Steamers leave Wellington for Christ church 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 Welling- , ton for Sydney direct on Friday \ of every week, and anyone who - finds that day inconvenient mav get '■, to Sydney from Auckland, whence .n stenmer leaves every Monday, after having voyaged up from Wei- < Ungton via Napier and Gisborne. j The.inward steamers from Sydney ( to Wellintrton go on to southern \ ports, and from Tho Bluff they 1 steam up to Melbourne and latter on ' to Svdney. # < As a means of enabling the sender ] of a letter addressed to n. place I abroad to prepay tho postage on « ( renly, the Department issues reply ( coupons on payment of a fee of < Id. These coupons may be exchang- I ed for a postage sttamp of tfie value of 2Jd in any country which adopts thfl scheme. New Zealand's population, inclndine that of the Cook Islands ( nnd denpnrlencies. is now well ornr one million. Tn .Tune. 1908. tho estimated ponnlation nf London wns 4.795.757. The rateable value of property in Rngland and Wales has risen each vear since 1874. The figures us follows:— In 1874, £115.fi4R.fi3]. Tn 1888. £145.527.944. Tn 1894. £161.139.575. In 1908, £212, 757, 450. The- 'total rateable value in 1874 represomits an average of £4 17s_ fid ner bead of population, while in 1008 ♦hn average was £6 ner bead. People are puzzled to know whaf Is meant by occasional references, in flißcu<?sions on naval armaments. to the German Naval Law. The ; Gprman Navy Law of 1907 pro vidp.s for the laving down in eaob f vear from 1908 to 1911 of three battleships and one armoured •' Tiifser: ntsn in each year from 101? fn 1917 of one bnt+lrsi'in nn/ 1 < oio fn-rnonr»'7 criti.eoi.; nlc«> vi pn' , ! , venr from 1908 to 1917 of two pro- ' eniiser" and one dostrover. ' Ne.w Z<v>'nml's public debt nt 31 s+ AWi'K 1910. fimonntwl \n £70.938- ; %M. the incrAsi<ir> for ihn twelve . mon+hs immp/itnteir preceding havintr -P 4.484 R37. Of this amount £1.200,000 <tm rffspd bv war o? p-nblic worlcs. £1.0-18.800 nrnier ■ tli'e. .Aflvanopo in Pottler.q and Work- "-« 4"f. and £1 non.ooo nn'W the WolHnrrtoTi wand Mnnn.wntn Railway ' P-irci'ice .Ae*. £250.000 w« roic. under t-I'p Tirtin.qto T/oeii TWlini Act. and £211.495 under the Land fnr Settlements Act. Gre.nt Britain's Nationml Debt, on •list March. 1909. stoml at £754.121309. being a decrease of £5,704.742 hv oonmirisnn with i\\n, fifrnres for Wig vwr imme/Th'at'e-lv nrecedung. ■ Acainst this were snt down assets tntnilfn" C37.1fi0.000, the principal item bnjnnr flie cifimafn/1 market vilne of f.bo Riip7, Canal shares rvrned bv Gre/it Britain (C32.000.000V AGE OF TWHRTCS AS SHOWN HY THETB TEETH. A of <ix months has six , grinders in each jaw, thr'ee on each side; also sjx mppers of front teeih, wifJi a in each. At the asro of one year, he loses +*'« first, milV frrinrlerq nbove nnd below, jiimi front teeth have their cavities filled up alike to teeth of horspe of eicrht rears of age. At a<?e of two iand a half tn three be caste hie two fronf, nnners. and in a short time after the two next. At age of four rears, erinders arf» six nnon each and a,t about, four ajid a-half bis nippers are all permanent ones, bv th« repiacincr of remaining two comer teeth : tushes t,b"n appear, and he is no longer a colt At fire r norso has tushes, and therfl is a black-coloured cavitv in centre of nil his lower Tiippers. .* t six this black cavitv is obliterated in the two front lower nippers. At seven t>he cavities of the next two are filled np nnd tnsbos blnntM: and at eiVht the cavities of the .+tro corner teeth nre filled un. m.av now be siid b« n""er|. Cnvitiip.9 in nippers of npper iaw to not, obliterated until t,be is nnnut. ten rears old. aft.'e.r which tiic.lio«i ro'inrJ. <»nrl nippArs proiect end onaneo tbeir ~«nrfnre. TO ASCERITATN THU! WEIGHT ©P CATTTvE. Take the measurement of the nrJrMi wber» it is pmaileit (close behind the shoulder) and the length of the animal from ; the/ front of the to the junction of the +?»il. soiiflrft «f Wio t??rtb in fept amd inches- bv the lenffh in fppb. and multiply the nrorluc* by .23. .24. .2fi. .28. or .30. nepordinsr to the fatness of the animal, and the result will <?jve tbo weight in imperial stones. For instaniyi, if the- "■ir+.Ti of «n - , ' r,, *m,'ll in morierat'* , conditioin bn fiffc. the lfxnnrtji sftr 4in. th<m fi x fi—3fi x Sl-3—102 x .24—47.08 stones. The foregoing is t.h* exreasp. woisht of animal. The weight of +bp carcase womid be nbout sof tbo livo weight for cnttlo; for sjipfip. from 1-3 to 4: and for a pig, from } to f "the live weight.