Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 September 1910, Page 1

Useful References

FOR TRAVELLERS AND STAY-AT-HOME PEOPLE.

Steamers leave Wellington for ChristchnrcK 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 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 Gisborne. The inward steamers from Sydney to Wellington go on to southern ports, and from The Bluff tihey steam up to Melhourn'e and latter 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 2|d 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 June, 1908, the estimated population of London was 4,795,757. The rateable value of pmp&rty in England and Wales has risen each year since 1874. The figures are as follows:—

Tn 1874, £115.646,631. Tn 1888, £145.527,944. Tn 1894, £161.139,575. In 1908, £212, 757, 450. Th'o total rateable value in 1874 represents a.n average of £4 17s 6d 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 on naval armaments, to the German Naval Law. The German Navy Law of 1907 provides for the laying down in each year 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 cruiser: also in each year from 1908 to 1917 of two protected cruisers and one destroyer.

New Zealand's public debt at 31st March. 1910, amounted to £70,938534. the increase for the twelVe months immediately preceding having been £4.484.637. Of this amount £1,200.000 was raised by way of public works. £1.048,800 under th'e Advances to Settlers and Workers Act, and £1.000.000 under the Wellington and Ma.nawa.tn Railway Purchase Act. £250,000 was raised under the Loans 'to Local Bodies Aclt, and £211.405 under the Land for Settlements Act.

Great Britain's National Debt, on 31st March, 1909, stood a/t £754.121309, being a, decrease of £5,704,742 by comparison with the ficures for it/ho year immediately precocfo'ng. Against this were set down assets totalling £37.160,000, the principal item being the estimated market value of <the Suez Canal shares owned by Great Britain (£32,000,000).

AGE OF HORSES AS SHwWN BY

THEIR TEETH

A foal of six months has si* grinders in eaoh jaw, thr'ee on each side; also six nippers of front teeth, with a cavi'tv in each.

At the age of ono year, he loses the first milk grinders above and below, and front teeth have their cavities filled up alike to teeth of horses of eight years of age. At age of two find a half to three years, ho casts his two front! uppers, and in a short time after the two next.

At > age of faur_ years, grinders are six upon each side, and at about four and ex-half his nippers are all permanent ones, by the replacing of remaining two comer teeth"; tushes then appear, and he is no longer a colt

Alt five a horse has tushes, and th'ere is n, black-coloured cavity in centre of all his lower (nippers. At six this black cavity is obliterated in the two front lower nippers.

At seven the mvities of the next two are filled up and tushes blunted ; and at eight the cavities of the ■two corner teeth are filled up. Hors'o mav now be said to be aged. Cavities in _ nippers of upper jaw are not obliterated until the horse is about ten years old, after which tushes become -round, and nippers project a ( nd change their surface.

TO ASCERTAIN TTTM WEIGHT

OF CATTLE,

Take the measurement of the eir+h whero it fa smallest (close behind the shoulder) and the length of the animal from the front of tho shoulder to the junction of the tail. MulUnlv thhe smiare of the girth in foet and inches by the length in feet, and multiply the oroducf by .23, .24, .26, .28, or .30, according to th'e fatness of the animal, and the result will give the weight in imperial stones. For instance. if th'e firth of "n animal in moderate conditioin be 6ft, the length sftr 4in, then 6 x 6—36 x 51-3—192 t .24-47.08 stones. The foregoing is the carcase weight of Ithe animal. The weight of the carcase would be about fof tho hVo weight for cattle: for sheep, from 1-3 to |; and for a pig, from } to | the live weight.