Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 September 1910, Page 1

Useful References

FOR TRAVELLERS AND LTAY 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 smith, such as Dunedin and The Bluff. Steamers leave Wellington for Sydney direct on Friday of overy 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 steam up to Melbourne and 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 be exchanged for a postage stamp of the value of 2Jd 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 ponnlation of London was 4.795,757. The rateable value of property in Encrland and Wales has risen each year since 1874. The figures are fifl follows:— In 1874, £115.646.631. Tn 1888, £145.527.9-14. Tn 1894, £161.139,575. In 1908,- £212, 757, 450. Tho total rateable value in 1874 represents an average of £4 17s 6d ner bead 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 armaments, to the German Naval Law. The German Navy Law of 1907 provides for the laying down in each ve.i.r from 1908' to 1911 of throp battleships and one armoured cruiser; also in each year from 1912 to 1917 of one ha.+ Mcsliin ono pvuwiirn.rt rrMiPT: fiUo in pn<'h venr from 1908 to 1917 of two protected "'misers n nd one destrover.

NW Zen 1 awl's public <Tebt nt 31st March. 1010, amounted to £70.938•'534. the increase for the twelve months immediately preceding having heen £4.484.037. Of this amount £1.200.000 was raised bv way of public works. £1.048.800 "nudcr the Advances to Settlers and Work- <""* Act. and £1 000.000 un'W the Wellington and M.nnawatu Railway Purchfsp Ar-t. £250.000 was misr>d iuh&w + I, f Loe.il Rn<lic<r. Art. nM. £211.405 under the Land for Settjlemonts Act.

Oi-p.ni Britain's National Debt, on 31st March, 1000. stood at £754.121300. being a decrease of £5,704,742 hv comparison with tho figures for the yo.nr inime.cTliate.lv preceding. Against tbi« wpro cot down assets totalling £37.1(50,000. the principal item being the estimated market v!>lu» of tlie S"pz Onn.nl sharps owned by Great Britain- (£32.000,000). AGE OF TORSES AS STwWN MY THETR TEETH. A of six months h«s six grinders in each jaw, three on each side; also six nippers of front teeth, with n cavity in each. At the age of one year, he loses t.lip f irs t milk grinders nhovo and below, a.nd front teeth have their cavities filled up alike to teeth of horses of eight years of age. At acre of two >nnd n half to three years, he casta his two front uppers, and in a short time after the two next. At age of four Years, grinders are six upon each Ride, and at .about four and a-half his nippers are all permanent ones, hv the replacing of remaining two corner teeth : tushes thpn appoar, and he is no longer a colt

A4> five a horso has tushes, and there' is a black-coloured cavity in centre of nil bis lower nippers.

At six this black eavity is obliterated in the two front lower nippers.

At seven the cavities of the next two are filler! up and tushes blunted : awl at eight the cavities of the hvo corner teeth are filled up. Torso tnnv now be said to he a god. Cavitjps in nippers of upper jaw »r» not obliterated until the borsp is About ten years old, after which tushw? become round, ond nippers project and change their surface.

TO ASCERTAIN TT~ WETGHT

0F CATTLE

Tak» fih» mensnroment of the orJr+h whpr#> it. i* smallest (closp hpliiiac? th» shoulder) and the lenfrth nf tha <nnim»l frosi the front of the shoulder to th« ,pinotion of the tail. Mnltiplv thhe Ronare if tho airth in feat ami inches bv the length in fpet. nnd mnltinlv the product hy .23, .24, .26, .28. or .3D. nccordinjr to tJie fatness of thp animal, and the result will five the weight in imperial stones. For inqtpiT»«. if fl'A fir+h nf «»i 'n modprnto eonditiein he" fift. flip lontrth Sftr 4in. thAn fi y 6—36 v 51-3—192 x .24—47.(18 stones. Tim is the carcase wet'eht of the animal. Tlip weight nf the nrease would he about fof the live weiVht' for cattle: for sheep, from 1-3 to nnd for a pig, from J to 5 the lire weight.