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Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 September 1910, Page 1

Usefuf References

—.—« FOR TRAVELLERS AND kTAY-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 to_ ports further south, such as Dunedin and The BlufF. Steamers leave Wellington for Sydney direot on Friday of every week, and anyone who finds that day inconvenient may gel to Sydney from Auckland, whence a steamer leaves every Monday, a.fter 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 tfhey steam up to Melbourn'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 0 reply, the Department issues reply coupons on payment of a fee of Id. These coupons may be exchanged for a postage stta.mp of the value of 2}d in any country which adopts the scheme. Now 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 value of property in England and Wales has risen each vear since 1874. The figures are as follows| In 1874, £115.646.631. Tn 1888. £145.527,944. Tn 1894, £161.139,575. ! Tn 1908, £212, 757, 450. : The total rateable valua in 1874 represents an average of £4 17s Gd per head of population, while in 1908 the average was £6 per head. Ppople are puzzled to know what is meant by occasional references, in discussions on naval armaments, to the German Naval Law. Tlio German Nayy Law of 1907 provides for the laying down in each vea.r from 1908 to 1911 of three battleships and one armoured cruiser; also in each year from 1912 to 1917 of one battleship and one armoured rruisnr: also in each rear from 1908 to 1917 of two protected cruisers and one destroyer. New Zealand's public debt at 31st M.nrch. 1910, amounted to £70,938534, the increase for the twelve months immediately preceding having been £4.484.637. Of this amount £1,200.000 wns raised by way of public works. £1.018.800 under th'e Advances to Settlers and Work»rs Act. and £1.000.000 undor the Wellington and Manawatu Railway P'trchato Act. £250.000 was rnis"d un<H® tlio Therms to Local Bodies Act, a«t £211,495 under the Land for SeflSbments Act. Great Britain's National Debt, on 31st March, 1909, stood at £754,121309, being a decrease of £5,704,742 hv comparison with the figures for tilia year immediately premfy'ng. Against this were set down assets totalling £37.160,000, the principal item being the estimated market value of the Suez Oanffl shares owned by Great Britain (£32,000,000). AGE OF HORSES AS RHwWN BY THEIR TEETH. A foal of six_ months has grinders in eaoh jaw, thr'ee on each side; nlso six nippers of front teeth, with a cavity in oach. At the age of one year, ho loses the first milk grinders above and below, a.nd front teeth have their cavities filled up alike to teeth of horses of eight years of age. At ago of two and a half to three years, ho caste his two front uppers, and in a short timo after the two next. Ai . age of four years, grinders are six upon each side, and a.t about four and n-half his nippers are all permanent ones, by the replacing of remaining two corner _ teeth : tushes then appear, and he is no longer a coJt A/t fire a horse has tushes, and there is a black-coloured cavity in centre of nil his 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 eight the cavities of the •two corner teeth are filled un. Hors'e mav now be said to be aged. Onrities in nippers of upper jaw *re not obliterated until the horse is «bont ten years 'old, after which tushes become round, and nippers project a-id change their surface. TO ASCERTAIN TTTW WETGHT •P CATTLE. Take the measurement of the girth wheri it is smallest (close behind the shoulder) and the length of the animal froai the front of the shoulder to th'a junction of the tail. Multiply thhe souare of the seirth in feet aind inches hv the length in feet, a.nd multiply the product by .23, .24, .26, .28, or .30, according to the fatness of the animal, the result will give the weight in imperial stones. For instance, if the firth of an animal in moderate conditioin be 6ft. the IVmp-tli sftr 4in. then 6 x 6—36 x 51-3-192 x .24—47.08 stones. The foregoing is the carcase weight of the animal. The weight of the carcase woaild he about |of the IIVO weight for cattle: for sheep, from 1-3 to J; and for a pig, from \ to 3 the live weight.