Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 August 1910, Page 1

Useful References

9 FOR TRAVELLERS AND STAY-AT-HOME PEOPLE. Steamers leave "Wellington for Christchurch practically erery evening in the week. Afternoon trains from Loyim connect with them. Tluere are fr'equent trips to ports further south, audi as Dunedin and The Bluff. Steamers leave Wellington for Sydney direct on Friday of ©very week, and anyone who finds that day inconvenient may pet to Sydney from Auckland, whence a steamer leaves every Monday, after having voyaged up from Wellington via Napier and Gtisborne. The .inward steamers from Sydney to "Wellington go on to southern ports, and from The Bluff tlhey steam up to MeTbourn'e and 1 alter 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 issue* reply coupons on payment of a fee of Id. These coupons may be exchanged for a postage ettn.mp of iho value of 2sd in any country which adopts the sohome. New Zealand's population, including that of the Cook Islands and other dependencies, is ntow well over one million. In Juno, 1908, th« estimated pormlation (of London watt 4,795,757. The raJteahle value of property in England and Wales Has risem each year since 1874. The figures are ns follows:— In 1874, £115.640.631. In 1888, £145.527.944. In 1894, £181.139,575. In 1908, £212, 757, 45«. Th'e ffcoial rateable value in 1874 represerots am average of £4 17e 0d 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 oil naval armaments, to the German Naval Law. The German Navy Law of 1907 provides for the laying down in each rear from 1901 to 1911 of three battleships and one armoured eruiser; also in each Venr from IQI2 +-o 1917 of one hnt+losb'in an/- 1 nno nrniscr • nlc<-» in pb^l' vear from 1908 to 1917 of two protected cruisers and one d'e«trovor. New public debt «t 31«t March. 1910, amounted to £70.938■134. tlie increase for >fhe twelve months immediatelv preceding? having been .<4.484.637. Of this nmouni £1,200.000 was raised by way of puhlfe works, £1.048,800 under thW Advances to Settlers and Worker* Irt, and <1.000.000 un*W +he Wellington and Manawatu Railway T*!rrcha*» Act. £250,000 tras twiV *d und«r +!<• to Local AcW, and! £211,405 under the Land for Settlements Act. Great Britm"*'* National Debt.'on 31st March, 1900, stood at £754.121309," being a decrease of £5,704.742 W comparison tn'+b the figures for Wie Tear imnierEafely preceding., Against this were set down assets tot&ltinpf £37.160,000, the principal it-em being the estimated market value of the Suez Oana! shares owned ty Great Britain (£32,000,000). AGE OF HOUSESASRWWN BY THEIR TEETH. A foal of six months has Isix' grinders in each jaw, tbr'ee on each side; also six nippers of f/ont teeth, with a cavity in each. At the age of one year, he loses t.h« first milk grinders above and beW, amd front flewth have their eavities filled up alike to teeth of horses of eight years of age. At age of two and a half to three yeafß. he casts his two front uppers, and in a short time afteir the fowo next. Af age of four year*, grinders are six upon each aide, and at about four and a-half his nippers are all permanent one#, by the replacing of remaining two corner teeth ; tushes then appear, and he is mo longer a coll At five a horse has tushes, and there fa a black-coloured cavity in centre of all his lower mippera. At six this black cavity is obliterated in ffche two front lower nippert. AH seven the cavities of the next Wo are filled up and tusrties blunted : amd ai eight the cavities of the two comer teeth are filled up. Worrfe may now he said to aged. Oarities in nippers of upper jaw are not obliterated until the horse is abeut ten years '•Id, after'which tushes fceoonw rotund, amd nippers project ami change tVeir'surface. TG ASOIRTATN WEIGHT •F OAWLIS: Take thfc neaasrerssaV si the fnVth where ft is smallest (close behind Hie shoulder) aid the length of the animal fro* &e front of the shoulder to Junction of the ■Ml. Multiply tbbe snus-re of t'ho stfrth is feet amd Inches by the lencrth in feet, and multiplv the product by .93, .24, .26. .28, or .30. according to th'e fatnws of the animal, and the result will give the weight in imperial storoea. For instance, if the enrth of an animal in moderate conditioin be 6ft, the length sftr 4in. them 8 x 6—36 x 51-3—102 x .24—47.01 stones. The foregoing is the carease weight of Itfie animal. The weight of the carcase would he about fof the liVe weight for cattle: for rfieep, from 1-8 to |; and for a pig, frtan J to | the live weight.

WLLIAM STEWART PARK