Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 September 1910, Page 1

Useful References

FOR TRAVELLERS AND LTAT-AT-HOME PEOPLE.

Steamers leave WelKngton for Ohristchurch practically every evening in the week. Afternoon trains from Levin coifneet with them. There are frequent trips to port.* further south, such ns Dnnedin and The Bluff. Steamers leave Wellington for Sydney direct on Friday of every week, and anyone who finds that day inconvenient may eet to Sydney from Aucklnnd. whence a steamer leaves every Monday, after having voyaged up from Wellington via Napier nnd Qisborne. The.inward steamers from Sydney to Wellineton go on to southern porta, and from The Bluff they stenm tip to Melbourne end later on to Rvdney. As a means of enabling the sender of a letter addressed to a place abroad io prepay the postage on n reply, the Department issues reply coupons on payment of a fee of Id. These coupons may be exohanged for a postage stamp of the value of 2id in any country which adopts the scheme. New Zealand's population, inolndine that of the Cook Island? nnd other denpndenciefl, is now wel 1 over one million. In Tune. 1908. the Mima+ed pontilation nf London was 4.795.757. The rateable vnlne of property in England and Wale/> has risen each year since 1874. The figures arfr as follows:-— Tn 1874, £115.f14fi.fi31. Tn TfiRR, £74/5.527.944. Tn 1894. £lfil.ia9.n7o\ In 1908, £212, 757, 450. Th'e itotal rateable value in 1874 repr«unvt« an a vera ore of £4 17s 6d npr bead of population, while in 1908 thfl avpraee v?ns £fl tter head. People are piißJilpd to know what is mwint by occasional references. in discusßions on naval armaments. to the German Navnl Law. The (Wman Navy Law of 1907 prn. vides for th*» laying down in each vear from 1908' to 1911 of Ihrop battleships : and one armonrecT orui.«er; also in eneh year from 1912 to 1917 of one battleship and one j»htiou' , < m ' mils'" , : also in each rear from 1908 to 1917 of two protected Timer* and one deetrover. New Zealand's public debt at, 31 st March. 1910. amounted to £70.938534. the incronup for the twelve months immediatelv preceding having been £4.4R4.637. Of this amonnt £1,200.000 was rnispd by wav of public works. £1.048.800 nndpr the Advances to Settlers and Workpr« Act. and £1 nnn.OOO the Wellington and Manawatn Railway Purchase Act. £250.000 was rwod nndpr f'p Lonns to Locnl Bodips Act, and £211.495 under the Land for Rettfemenfa Act.

Gr<>nt Britain's Nationnl T)pbi. on Slrt Mnreh, 1009; stood at £754,121309, neinp ft decrease of £.5.704.742 bv comparison • with the fiernw for tJhe m year immeoMatelv' precedent:. Aanunet thin wprp set down assetc totalliusr £37.160,000. the principal itpm hfj'Tiw the pstimntpd market vfllne of the Sneis'Canal sharps owned by Grent Britain (£32.000,000). AGE OF TTOttSTCR AR RTTwWN UY THEIR TEETH. A fowl of six months hne sir erinders in each jaw, three on each side: nlso six nippers of front teeth, with ft cavity in PBrh. At the nee of onn year, ho loses tin* first milk grindprs nhnve and below, and front teeth have their parities, filled tip alike to teeth of horses of eijrht years of age. At acre of two mud n. hnlf to ihrcfi 'TM«, }\(t cj»«tfl his tvro front nppera, and in a short time aftet thn +wo ne*t. At- nge of four venr*. privfam are six upom «?j"»1» and at ebon-f four and fl-hnlf his nippers are all permanent onee. by the rpnhrivv of remeininp! two comer t«eth: tushes appear, and he is no longer a colt Ait five a Tinrep bns tushes, a**! thWe in « binok-ooloured oflvity in oentrp of j»11 bin lower nipnors. A+- sit +bis blnok oavitv is in the two front lowor nipp*ro. , At seven the cflvitips of tbp •noxt two nr» filled nn nnd tushes blunted ; and at the oflvitips of tho Itto eornpr topfb nr« filled up. Honte mav now be said to be atwl. OnvitiVa in nipppra of upper jaw are not obliterated until the horse is abonf +pri v<»n r s 'nM. p r *-"T wb'p^ tllJ»b<H« bPfOTTto TOUT*''. «T"1 ninnnre project a.nd change their surface. TO ASCEHTATV THW WETGHT OP CATTLE. Take +bo mpaßnrpment />f the «ir+n wber<» it is smallpst Mose b«>bin/1 the shoulder) and tbp lencrtb of tn« «»iimfll from the front of tih<» shonMpr to tb'« fanp+ion "f |be +ail. \f-n"-inlv +Wia isniiorp nf i^P Mirth in fwt and incbw bv tbp in fp«t. fnd multiply $be nrodnof by .23, .24, .26. .28. or .SO. nwnrAmp to tb'n fatnpfis of the animal, and the result will give tbp weight in stones. For innt.B"',',. if tb'ft '"'t-b'nf •>'> nf'Tial ; n moderatp conditim'ti be 6ft, the toiP+h fiftr 4?n. fit fi—S« v n 1-3—192 t .24—47.08 stones. The foreaoine is tbft caronse weiebtt of the Wiimfll. The weiebt of tbe earC(W»« would hf ab6nt fof tbe liVe trwebt for cnttl<»: for sheep, from 1-8 to-I: and for a pig, from \ to \ ihe live weight.