Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 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_ ports further south, such as Dnnedin 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 le<aves 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 he exchanged 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 denendencies, is now well over one million. Tn Tune. 1008. the estimated population of London was 4.705.757. The rateable value of property in England and Wales has risen each year since 1874. The figures are as follows:— Tn 1874, £115.646.631. Tn 1888. £145.527.044. Tn 1804. £161.130.575. Tn 1008, £212, 757. 450. The total rateable value in 1874 represents an average of £4 17s 6d ner head of population, while in 1908 the nverasre was £6 per head. People are puzzled to know what is meant by occasional references, in discussions on naval armaments, to the Gorman Naval Law. The German Navy Law of 1007 provides for the laying down in ench rear from 1008 to 1011 of three battleships and one armoured cruiser: also in ench year from 1012 to 1017 of one battleship ami one armoured cruiser: nlso in ench vonr from 1008 to 1917 of two protected cruisers and one destroyer.

New Zanlnnd's public debt at 31st March. 1910. amounted to £70.938531. the incrcnoo for the twelve months immediately preceding having been £4.4R4.f537. Of this amount £1.200.000 was raised by way of public works. £1.048,800 under the Advances to Bottlers and Workers Act. and -£1.(100.000 linger the Wellincton mnd Mannwntn Railway Purchase Act. -P 250.000 was raided under +iic T,onn.c tn Loc.nl Bodie= Act. nTid £211.495 under the Land for Settlements Act.

Orent Britain's National Debt', on 31st March. 1009. stood at £754.121300. being a. decrease of £5.704.742 bv comparison vn'fli tbp firm res for the year immedh'at'olv preceding. Acrainst thic were set down assets totalling £37.160.000. the principal item holnor +Tio estimated market vnlue of the Suez Canal shares owned by Great Britain (£32.000.000). AGE OF nnPRFS AS FmwWN BY THEIR TEETH. A fowl of six months has mx grinders in each jaw, three on ench side: also six nippers of front teeth, with a cavity in each. At the ace of one year, he loses the first milk winders above and below, and front teeth have their cavities filled up alike to teeth of horses of eiVht years of nge. At a<re of two <and n half to three years, he casts his two front uppers, and in a short time after f.Tin +to next. A + asfe of four vears. prindpr*; are six and at about four 'and n-h"lf his nippers are all permanent ones, by the renlacrnf of remaining two corner teeth: tushes + I,n n appear, and he is no longer a colt At five a has tushes, and there is a black-coloured cavity in centra of il? V* Irnrer nipne-rs. \ + mV fMs hlnck envitv |o obliterated in t T >e two front lower nippers. At" seven the cavities of the -"ert •frrr, fire fitTnr? nr> nnd filches Mnnted : Jind at ei'dit +he of the tiro comor teeth firn filled up. TTors'e ~nav now be said to he need. He rifles in runners of upner jnw are not obliterated until the horse iq A on r/N«ir« Tvlt'nT l ta'lT T»y|>n'nrc project and change their surface. TO ASCERTAIN TRW WETOHT OF CATTLE. Take tb'A measurement cf fJie "jrth where it is smallest (close behind the shoulder) and the length of the animal from the front of the shoulder to the junction of the tnil. Mu'finlv thl'e <3of fI, P Gfirth in feet «vnd inches bv tbo lencrth in feet, nnd multinlv the product by .23, .24, .26. .28, or .30. according' to the fatness of the the result trill frive the weight in imperial stones. For instaneo. if the mrth of an lafimnl in moderate conditioin be 6ft, the leu fth sftr 4in. then 6 t 6—36 y 51-3—192 x .24—47.08 stones. The foregoing is th« carcase weight of the animal. The weight of the carcase wooild be about fof the liVe weight for cattle; for sheep, from 1-3 to f; and for a pig, frtrni J to f the live weight.