Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 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 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 and Gisborne. The.inward steamers from Sydney to Wellington go on to southern ports, and from The Bluff they stenm up to Melhourn'oand later on to Sydney. As a means of enabling the 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 exchanged for a postage stamp of the value of 2sd in any country which adopts the scheme. New Zealand's population, including that of the Cook Islands and other dependencies, is now well over one million. Tn June. 1908. the estimated population of London was 4,795.757. The rateable vnlue of property in England and Wales has risen ench year since 1874. The figures art as follows:— In 1874, £115.646,(531. Tn 1888, £145,527.944. Tn 1894, £161.139,575. Tn 1908, £212, 757, 450. Tli'o total rateable value in 1874 represents a.n average of £4 17s (5d per head of population, while in 1908 the average was £6 per head. People are puzzled to know what is meant by occasional references, in discussions on naval armamemts, 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 vo<nr from 1 HI2 tn 1917 of one bo++Wln'r> nnr 1 nnp n vmoiirp'l prni'qnr • llcf* In vonr from 1908 to 1917 of two pro-t.fw-fod nniisers and one dc«trover. New Z'vi'nnd's public debt, at 31 «f March. 1910, amounted to £70.938534, tihe increase for the tweVe months immediate!* preceding having bean £4.484.637. Of this amouni £1,200.000 was raised by way of public works. £1.048,800 under th'e Advance? to Settler* and Workers Act. and £1 nfY).OOO the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Pnrcbfce Aft, £250,000 was raised und#r +.ti» T/onnato Lorvd Bodies Act, and £211,495 under the Land for Settlnments Act. Great Britain's National Debt. on 31st March, 1909. stood at £754.191309, being a decrease of £5.704,742 bv comparison with the figures for tihe year immedh'atelv prece<Wng. Acrainst this vrer* q»t down assets totallinor £37.160,000. the principal it-cm b'intr the estimated market vnlim of the S"»7. Canal shares owned by Great Britain (£32.000.000). AGE OF TTORSF/S AS STT«r)WN BY THETR TEETH. A fonJ of fs'x months has six crindera in each jaw, three on each side; also six nippers of front teeth, with a cavity in each. At the n?e of one year, ho loses . t.h«» first milk nrinders nhnve nnd below,' aind front <teeth have their cavities filled up alike to teeth of horses of eisrht vears of age. At aae of two <ind a half to i three years, be casts his two front uppers, and in a short time after the two next. At age of fonr_ years, grinders are six upon each side, and at about, four and a-half his nippers are all permanent ones, hv the replacing of remaining two corn or teeth : tushes then appear, and he is no longer a colt Art fire a horse has tushes, and there is a black-coloured cavity in centre of all hi* lower nippers. At six this black cavity is obliterated in the two front lower nippers. At seven the cavities of the next two are filled up and tushes'blunted ; and at eicht the cavities of the .two corner teeth are filled up. Hors'rt may now he said to be aced.' Cavities in nippers of upper jaw are not obliterated until 7 the horce is flbont ten years told, rifter which tushes become round; and nippers project a*d ofcanga their surface., . TO ASCERTAIN THX WETGHT OF OATTLE. Take the measurement of thel m'rtb where it i* smallest (close hind the shoulder) au<H the length of the •nimal froai the front of ■the shoulder to th'« junction of the tail. Multiply thhe «n"nre of the cjirth in fe«t Mid inohea bv the leneth 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 o-irth of an animal in moderate conditioin ha 6ft, the lenorth sftr 4in. thon 6 x 6—36 x 51-3—192 x .24—47.08 stones. The foregoinsr is t.h» carcase weight of tfie animal. The weight of the carcase would be about Jof the live weight for cattle: for sheep, from 1-3 to ?: and for a pig, from J to f the live weight.