Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 August 1910, Page 1

Useful References

FOR TRAVELLERS AND STAY-AT-HOME PEOPLE. Steamers leave Wellington for Ohristchurch practically every evening in the week. Afternoon trains from Levim connect with them. There ar» frequent trips to ports further fouth, 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 Gh'sborne. Th© intward steamers from Sydney to "Wellington go on to southern ports, and from The Bluff tihey steam up to MeTbourn'e and laifcer on to Sydney. As a means of enabling .the sender of a letter addressed to a place abroad to prepay the postage on n replv. the Department issues reply coupons on paymenlt of a fee of Id. These coupons may be exchanged for a postage stamp of the value of 2id in any country which adopts the sohoma. New Zealand's population, including that of the Cook Islands and other dependencies, is niow well over one million. In June, 1908. the estimated population 'of London was 4.795,757. The rateable value of property in En eland and Wales has risen each year since 1874'. The figures are ns follows:— In 1874, £115,846,631. In 1888, £143,527,944. In 1894, £161.139,575. In 1908, £212, 757, 459. IW© (total rateable value in 1874 represents an average of £4 17s 8d ner 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 armaimemta, to the German Naval La;w. The German Navy Law of 1907 provides for the laying down in each veair from 1908 to 1911 of three battleships and one armoured cruiser; also in each year from IHI2 tn WIT" of on« "bnt+WKip aw* orto frnis<*r; pJao fn v/>ar from 1908 to 1917 of two T>rocruisers and one d'estrovor. New Zp>alnmd's public deibt at 31st March. 1910, amounted to £70,938534. tlie increase for the twelVe months immediately preceding having heen £4.484.637. Of this amount £1,200.000 rrns raised by way of pnMie works, £1,048.800 under th!e /"dvances to Settlers and Workers Act. and £1.000.000 rnidor the Wttllington and Manawatu Railway Purchawa Act. £950,000 was raised und«r tho Losnsfto Local Bodies Acffi, mid £911,495 under tk'e Land for Settlements Act. Great Britain's National Debt, on 31«b March, 1909, stood nt £754,121309. being a decrease of £5,7Q4.742 Jiv oompariVvn WWi the figures for flhe year immedliatelr preceding. Affainßt thio w<*re set down assets £37,160,000, the principal item being the estimated mark'et value of the Suez Oanal shares owned by Great Britain (£32,000,000). AGE OF HOUSES AS SHttWN BY THEIR TM7TH. A foal of six month's has feii* grinders in each jaw, three on eaeh side; also six nippers of front teeth, with a cavity in each. At the age of one year, he loses +<b« first milk crrinders above and below, and front teeth have their cavities filled up alike to teeth of horses of eight years of age. At ase of two and a half to three years, he casta his Wo front uppers, and in a short time after the /two next. At age of four years, grinders are six upon eaeh and at ah'out four and a-half liia nippers are all pormament ones, by the replacing of remaining two cornerr teeth ; tushes then appear, and he is no. longer a colt Alt five ft horse has tushes, and IMi'ere fa a hlaok-coloured oavity in centre of al? his lower nippers. At six this blaek cavity is obliterated in the two front loweir nipAt seven the cavities of the next two ar« filled up and tushes blunted : Bind at eisrht the cavities of the ■two comer teeth are filled up. Horsle may now he said to be aged. Ofl.ritiefl in nippers of upper jaw are not obliterated until the horse is sheu't tew years Wld, after which tushes Vecome round, and nippers project a*J efcange their surface. TO ASCERTAIN TWJG WEIGHT •F GATfLffl. Tak« (Hib Measurement ef the nrirth wher® ft is smallest (close behind 'file shoulder) kuJ the length of the animal frote tte front oi tfie shoulder to the Junction of the +wfl. Multiply +hh« win are of +ih? stirth ia feet o/nd feoh'ets hv the lenrth in feet, and multiply thf product by .23, .24, .26, .28, or .30, according to ttfi'e fatness of thf animal, and the # resnUt will give thf weight in imperial stones. For instance, if the frirth of an animal in moderate conditioin he 6ft, th< Tengtih sftr 4in, then 8 x 6—36 3 51-3—192 x .94—47.08 stones. ThV foregoing is the caroase weight ol Ithe animal. The weight of the carcase would he about fof the lto w«ight for cattle; for slheep. fron 1-3 to and for a pig, from \ to 1 the live weight. ■WW—