Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 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 fr'equent trips to_ ports further »outh, 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 and Gisborne. The, iniward steamers from Sydney to Wellington go on to southern ports, and from Tho Bluff they steam up to Melbourne and latter on ! to Sydney. As a means of enabling the sender of a letter addressed to a place abroad to prepay tho postage on a reply, the Department issues reply coupons on payment of a fee of Id. These coupons may be exchanged for a postage sltamp of the value of 2Jd in any country which adopts tha eohemo. N«w Zealand's population, including that of the Cook Islands and other dependencies, is n'ow well over one million. In June, 1908. tha esrfinnnted population fof London was 4,795,757. Tho rateabl# value of property in England and Wales has risen each year since 1874. The figures ar& as follows:— In 1874, £115,648,631. Tn 1888. £145,527,944. In 1894, £181,139,575. In 1908, £212, 757, i 59. Th'e (total rateable value in 1874 represents an average of £4 17s 8d per head of population, whil« in 1908 the average was £6 per head. People are puzzled to know what \s meant hy occasional references, in discussions op naval armaimemts, to the German Naval Law. The German Navy Law of 1907 provides for the laying down in each vear from 1908 to 1911 of three battleships and one armoured cruiser; also in each y'ear from 1912 to 1917 of one battleship aiT 3 on« armoured ernis^r: nlco in eneh vear from 1908 to 1917 of two protoe+ed eruisers and one destroyer. Now Zpaland's public debt at 31st March. 1910, amounted to £70,938534. Wie increase for >tha twelve month?? immediately preceding having been £4.484.637. Of this anrount £1,200.000 was raised by way of publio works. £1.048,800 under th'e Advances to Settlers and Work<m\s Act, and £1.000.000 under the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Purchase Aei. £250,000 was raisunder th» TVv>nfltn Local Bodie." Artb, and £211.495 under the Land for Settlements Act. Great Britain'* National Debt, on 31.<rt March, 1909, stood at £754.121309, being a decrease of £5,704.742 hv comparison with the figureß for , tlhe year immediately precerMng. Against this were net down assets totalling £37.160,000, the principal item being the estimated market vnlua of the Suez Canal shares owned by Great Britain (£32.000.000). AGE OF HORSES AS STtoWN BY THEIR TEETH. A foal of six month* has six 1 grinders in each jaw, three on each side; also six nippers of front teeth, with a cavity in each. Ai the age of one year, he loses th« first milk prinders above and below, amd front teeth have their eavities filled up alike to teeth of horses of eight years of age. At age of two and a half to three years, he casts his two front uppers, and in a short time after the two n'ex^. At a#e of four years, grinders are six upon each side, and at about four and a-half his nippers are all I permanent ones, by the replacing of remaining two corner teeth; tushes then appear, and he is no longer a colt At five • horse has tushes, and th'ere is a black-coloured cavity in centre-of #11 hi» lower nippers. At six this black cavity is obliterated in the two front lower nippers. At seven the cavities of the next two nre filled up and tushes bluntod; amd at eisrht the cavities of the •two corner teetfc are filled lip. Horde mav now he said to he aged. Cavities iV nippers of upper jaw are not obliterated until the horse is mbout ten year« bid, after which tushes become round, and nippers project aid change their surface. TO ASCERTAIN THK WEIGHT ©F OATBLI. Take {h* measurement of the girth where H is smallest (close behind the shoulder) snJ tho length l of the nnimal froa Hie front of the shoulder to th'« .function of the Multiply thhe ■nunre of the girth in feet and inchea hy the length' in feet, and multiply the product 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 instance, if the pnrth of an animal in moderate conditioin he 6ft, the lentrth sftr 4in. then 6 x 6—36 x 51-3-102 x .24-47.08 stones. The foregoing is the carcase weight of ■the animal. The weight of the carcase would bo about fof the liVo weight for cattle; for sheep, from 1-3 to i: and for a pig, from J to J the live weight.