Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 September 1910, Page 1

Useful References

FOR TRAVELLERS AND STAY-AT-HOME PEOPLE.

Steamers leave Wellington for ChristchurcK practically every evening in the week. Afternoon trains from Levin, connect with them. There are frequent trips to t ports fnirither south, such as Dunedin nmd 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 tlhey steam up to Melbourne 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 tho value of 2Jd in any country which adopts tho scheme.

New Zealand's population, including that of the Cook Islands and other dependencies, is n'ow well over one million.

Tn Tune. 1908, the estimntwl population of London was 4,795,757. Tho rateable value of property in England and Wales has risen each year since 1874. Tho figures artsis follows:—

In 1874, £115,848,631. Tn 1888, £145.527,944. Tn 1894. £161.139,575. Tn 1908, £212, 757, 450. Th'o (total rateable value in 1874 reprpsfln+s an 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 navnl armaments, fo the German Naval Law. The German Navy Law of 1907 provides for tlio laying down in eaoh vear from 1908' to 1911 of thro* battleships and one armoured cruiser: also in each year from 1912 to 1917 of one battleship ami one armoured cruiser: also in each year from 1908 to 1917 of two protected cruisere and one d'estrover.

Now Zwilnnd's public, debt at 31st Mflrch. 1910, amounted to £70,938534. t'hp for fn'p twelv'o months immediately preceding having been £4.484.637. Of this nmount £1,200,000 was raised by wny of public works, £1.048,800 under th'o Advances to Settlers and Workers Act. and £1.000.000 under th'o Wellington and Man.awatu Railway Purchase Act. £250.000 was raised under the Loin?'to Local Rodipq Acit, and £211,495 under the Land for Settlements Ad.

Great Britain's National Debt, on 31st March, 1909, stood at £754.121309, being a decrease of £5,704,742 by comparison with th'o figures for Mie year inrmedh'ately preceding-. Against this were sot down assets totalling £37.160,000, Ihe principal item beinc: the estimated market value of -the Suez Oanal shares owned by Gront Britain. (£32,000,000). AGE OF TTOKETCS AS BTtoWN BY THETR TEETH. A fonfl of six months has S«V grinders in each jaw, three on «ieh side; also six nippers of front teeth, with n cavity in each. At the age of one year, ho loses the first milk jrrindeTS above and below, a.nd front teeth have their cavities filled up nlikft to teetK of horses of eight years of age. At aae of two and a half to three years, he casts his two front upper?, and in a. short time after the two next. At age of four years, grinder's are six upon each side, and at about four and a-balf his nippers are all permanent ones, by the replacing of remaining two comer teeth"; tushes th»n appear, and he is no longer n colt Alt five a h'orso has tushes, and ffch'ere is a black-coloured cavity in centre of all his Tower nippers. At six this black cavity is obliterated in the two front lower nippers. At seven the cavities of the next two are filled no and tushes blunted ; and at eight the cavities of the ■two corner teeth are filled up. Tfors'e may now be said to be aged. Cavities in nippers of upper jaw nre not obliterated until the horse is about ten years 'old, after which tushes become Tound. and nippers project and change their surface.

TO ASCERTAIN TJTtt WEIGHT OF CATTLE. Take t«he measurement of the inVf.h wher*> it is smallest (close behind the shoulder) and the length of the mnimal frow the front of t!h" shoulder to the junction of "the to 1'!. MulHplv thhe snnaxe of the £*i v th in feet and inches by the le"eth in feet, a.nd multiply the iWno* by .23, .94, .26, .28, or .30. according to the fatness of the animal, and the resuTt will give the weight in imperial stones. For instance, if the orfriii of *vi animal in moderate conditioin be 6ft, the I'enrfh sftr 4in, them 6 x 6—36 x fi 1-3—192 x .24—47.08 stones. The foregoing is the carcase weighlt of Me animal. The weight of the carcase woiild be about fof the live weight for cattle: for sheep, from 1-3 to f; and for a pig, from \ to f the live weight.