Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 September 1910, Page 1

Useful References

FOR TRAVELLERS AND STAY AT-HOME PEOPLE.

Steamers leave Wellington for Christchurcii practically every evening in the week. Afternoon trains frmn Levin; connect with them. There tiro frequent trips to ports further south, such as Dunodin and Tho Bluff. Stoamcrs leavo Wellington for Sydney direct on Friday of every week, and anyono whn finds that day inconvenient may get to Sydney from Auckland, whence a. steamer loaves 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, mid from Tlio Bluff tlhey steam up to Mclhonrn'o and 1 alter on to Sydney. As a means of enabling the sender of a. letter addressed to a place abroad to prepay tho postage on a reply, tho Department issues reply coupons on payment of a feo of Id. These coupons may be oxohangc<l 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. In Juno, 1908, the ostimnted ponulation of London was 4.795,757. Tho rateable value of property in England iand Wales has risen on oh year since 1874. The figures are sis follows:— Tn 1874, £U8.fi4fi.631. Tn 1888, £145,527,044. Tn 1894, rfilfil. 139,575. In 1008, £212. 757, 450. Tlio itotal rnteahlo value in 1874 reproscmts an average of £4 17s Gd per head of population, while in 1908 the average was £G per head. People are puzzled to know what is meant by occasional references, in discussions on naval nrma.me.Tits. to the Oermnn Nnval Law. The Gorman Navy Law of 1907 provides for tbp laying down in each yea.r from 1908 to 1911 of throe battleships and one armoured cruiser; also in each year from 1912 to 1917 of ope battleship and on? nrmonrrv? orm'ppr: niso in each venr from 1908 to 1917 of two protected cruisers and one destroyer.

New Zealand's public debt at 31st March. 1910, amounted to £70.938531. ihp increase for the twelve months immefliat.plv preceding baring been £4.484.(537. Of this amomit £1.200.000 was raised by way of public, works. £1.018,800 'under the- Advances to Settlers and Workers Act. and £1.000.000 under the Wellington and Mnnnwatu Railway Purchase Act. £250.000 was rnispfl under t-hp Lopns to Local Bodies Act. nM £211 .'195 under the Land for Sefljjemp-nta Act.

Great Britain's National Debt, on 31st March, 1909, stood at £754.121309, being a decrease of £5,701,742 bv comparison with tho ficures for ; tihe _ year immecfliatrcly preceding. Against tin's were set down assets totalling £37.1(50,000. the principal item being the estimated market value of it.lie Suez Canal sharps owned by Grent Britain (£32,000,000). AGE OF HORSES AS RHWN KY THEIR TEETH. A of six month* has mx grinders in each jaw, three on oaeh side; also six nippers of front teeth, with a cavity in each.

At the ngp of one year, ho loses the first milk Grinders above and boTow, a.n>d front teeth havo their cavities filled up alike to teeth of horses of eight years of age. At age of two and a half to three years, be casts his two front uppers, and in ia. short time after the two next.

At ago of four years, grinders are six unon each side, and at .about four and a-half his nippers are all permanent ones, by the replacing of remaining two corner teeth; tushes then appear, and he is no longer a colt

Aft five n horse has tushes, and ft bore is ei black-coloured cavity in centre of all bis 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 : flinid at eight the cavities of the ■two corner teeth are filled up. Horso m«iv now be snuVl to be aged. Cavities in # nippers of upper jaw are not obliterated until the horse is lahout ten years old. after which tushes become round, and nippers project a>nd change their surface.

TO ASCERTAIN TTTK WEIGHT

OF CATTLE

Take the measurement of the <?irth where it is smallest (close behind the shoulder) and the longtn of the animal from the front of tli'e shoulder to the junction of the tail. Multiply thhe smuare of the girth in feet aind inches by the leneth in feet, and multiply the product by .23, .24, .26, .28, or .30, according to the- fatnvss of tho animal, and the result will give the weight in imperial stones. For instance, if the- n'r+h of nn animal in moderate eomTitioin be 6ft, the Teno-fch sftr 4in. them 6 x 6—3fi x 51-3-192 x .24-47.08 stones. The foregoing is the carcase weight of the animal. The weight of tho carcase would be about |of the live weicht for cattle; for sheep, from 1-3 to I; and for a pig, from 5 to f the live weight.