Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 August 1910, Page 1

Useful References

FOR TRAVELLERS AND STAY AT-HOME PEOPLE. Steamers leave Wellington for Christchnrch practically every evening in the week. Afternoon train* from Levin connect with them, There are frequent trips to port s further south, suoh as Dunedin ami The Bluff. Steamers leave Wellington for Sydney direct on Friday of every week, and anyone whe finds that day inconvenient may get to Sydney from Auckland, whence a steamer leaves every Monday, after having voyaged up from Wellington 7i'a Napier and Gisborne. The inward steamers from Sydney to Wellington go «n to southern ports, and from The Bluff they steam up to Melbourne nnd later on to Sydney. As a means of enabling the sender of a letter addressed to a place abroad to nre-pny tho postage on a reply, the Department issues replv coupons on payment of a fee of Id. These coupons may be exchanged for a postage stamp of the value of 2Jd in any country which adopts tho schema. New Zealand's population, including that of the Cook Islands nnd other deoandencies, is now well over one million. Tn June. 1908, the os+i mated population 'of London was 4.795.757. The rateable of property in Engla.nd and Wales has risen each ye.nr since 1874. The figures nr& ns follows:— In 1874, jens.R4fJ.63l. Tn 18RS. £145.527.944. Tn 1894, €161.139,575. Tn 1908, €212, 757, 450. Tb'o total rateable value in 1874 represents a.n average of €4 17s Gd ner bead of population, while in 1908 the average was €6 Tier hen/1. People are puzzled to know what vi meant by occasional references, in discussions on naval armaments, +o the German Nnvnl Law. The (rermnn Navy Lnw of 1907 provides for the laying down in Anch ve-nr from 1908 to 1911 of three battleships and one armoured cruiser; also in each voir fr*™ 1912 to 1917 of one hnrtWdn a:" : Ane armour*"-! ernisor: in venr from 1908 to 1917 of two pro-t-c-terl eruisers and one destroyer. >W nnhbV deht ft 31st March. 1910, amounted to £70.938534. the increase for tho twelve months prece-flin°" bavins: b-cn €4.484.037. Of this nmount €1,200.000 wn.i raised by way of pnhlie works. €1.048,800 under th& IdranCM to Settlors and Work- ■""* let. and €1 nrm.ooo nn'W+he Wellington .e.nd Manawntu Railway P'ircha«B AeV €250.000 , rß s mU*d und«r T Vi* T/owd Bwlie" \cit, nnd''£2ll.49s under the Land for Settlements Art. GreiVißritm'n's National Debt, -en Slat Marjc-b, 1909. stood at €754.T?1_ 309, being, a decrease of €5.704.742 by comparison with the ficrm-op for" tJie ( year ■immediately precedunpr. Against ; thfe wprf« q<»t down assets tnta.llina £37.100,000. the principal h-in? the estimated market rnlim of the Rn«>7 Onnnl -•hnrp<? owned by Grent Britain (£32,000,000). AGE OF TTnRfTEP *R RH-)WN BY THEIR TEETH. k foa3_ of months has ,<vix grinders in each jnw, throe on each side; also ah nippers of front teeth, with » cavity in each. At the np"e of one year, he loses f h* first milk erinders above anrl below, a.nd front +o*th havo their favities filled up alik«» to teeth of horses of eicrht years of age. At a<re of two and a half to three years, he casts his two front unpers. and in a. short time .after the two next. -At- age of four years, grinders are b\x nnon «w»oh side, nnd at about, four and «-half his nippers are all n«fmj>npnt ones, by the replacing of remaining two corner teeth: tushes th»»n appear, and he is no longer a colt Ait five a Tinr-P hns tushes, nnd there is a hlnek-coloured cavity in centre of all hi« lower nippers. it tiix this black cavity is ohliternt<vl in the two front lower nippers. At seven the cavities of the-next two nre filled up nnd tushes hiuntod: a<nA nt eirrht the cavities of the. •t-n-o corner t-eetli are filled un.TTorsio inav now he snid to he acred. Cnvities in nippers of upner jnw «re not obliterated until the is flhont ten y*nra old. after which tushes Worn* round,,., nnd, nippers project n«d change their surface. TO ASCERTATV TH~ WEIGHT' OF CAITLE. Take the measurement of the, <nrth wher* it \n smallest (close be-, hind the shoulder) &n4 the length'' of the enimal froaa tie front of tiie to th« .-junction of the t«il. Multiply thhe »nn<>ro of the o?irtb in fe»t and inches bv the lencth in fp«t, and winltinlv the prodnet by .23, .24, .2fi. .28, or .30; neeording to the fatness of tho the. result will giVe the weight in imperinl stones. For instance, if the firth of nn animal in moderate condftioin he 6ft„ the lonnrt.b sftr 4in. then f? x 6—30 x 51-3-192 x .24-47.08 stones. Tlie foregoing is th« carcTse weifrht of tJie animal. The weight of the enrcr>R» woidd he shout fof the live weight for cattle; for sheep, from 1-3 to 5: »nd for a pig, from J to f the live weight. WBBBta»nBBe- smxasotom