Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 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 ports further south', such as Dunedin svnd 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 Welliwrton go on to southern ports, and from The Bluff they steam up to Melboum'e and 1 alter 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 2id 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. Tho rateable vnlne of property 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 an average of £4 17s 8d per 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 (Wmnn Naval Law. Tho German Navy Law of 1907 provides for the laying down in each rear 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 roar from 1908 to 1917 of two protected cruisers and one dest rover.

New Zealand's public debt at 31st March. 1010. 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 the Advances to Settlers and Workers Act. and £1.000.000 under tho Wellington and Manawatu Railway Purchase Act. £250.000 was raised under the Loans to Local. Bodies Act, and £211.495 under the Land for Settlements Act. ■ Great Britain's National Debt", on 31st March",.l9o9. stood a.t £754.121309, being ft decrease of £5.704.742 bv comparison with the figures for ft/he year immediately prece&'ng. A pain st this were set down assets totalling £37.160.000. the principal item beinc? the estimated market value.of the Sues! Canal shares owned by Great Britain (£32,000.000). AGE OF HORSES AS RTTttWN BY THEIR TEETH. A fonil of six months hna sir grinders in each jaw, on each side; also six nippers of front teeth, with a cavity in each. At the a ere of one year, be loses the first milk frrinders above and below, and front teeth have their cavities filled up alike to teeth of horses of eight v<*ars of age. At aee of two and a half to three years, be casta bis two front uppers, and in a short time after the two next. At age of four veara. errindcrs are six upon each side, and at about four and a-half his nippers are all permanent ones, by the replacing of remaining two corner teeth: tushes tJ>»n appear, and he is no longer a colt Aft five a hnr.co has tushes, and fhWe is n black-coloured cavity in centre of h?« lower nippers. At six fh?s black cavitv is obliterated in the two front lower nippers.

At seven the cavities of the next t*ro am filled up and fnshes blunted : and at. eiVht +he oavitiea of the two corner teeth are filled up. Horse rnav now he said to be Cavities in nippers of upper jaw are not obliterated until the horse is niton* +pn rears old, which tusboo hpnnmo round, ind nipnors project and change their surface.

TO ASCERTAIN THW WEIGHT OF CATTLE. Take the mpnsuremenf of the onr+h where it is «mnllosi> Mose hphind the and the length of tbe animal from the front of ■fcTio shoulder to th'<» junction of -Hie tail. Mii'H'n'v thhn jsni"<»rp of th<> girth' in feet and inches by the lenpth in feet, and multinlv the product by .23, .24, .26, .28, or .30, nccrvrdi'nor +e the fatness of the animal, and 'the result will give the vroieht in imperial stones. For instate. if the cirth of - n n n^'ma l in moderate conditioin be 6ft, the Ton orf/h fiftr 4in. then fit fi—RK t 51-3—192 x .24—47.08 stones. The foregoing is weigWt of 'the animal. The weight of the carcase would be about- Jof the liVe weight for cattle: for sheep. from 1-3 to f; and for a pig, frtan \ to J the lire weight...