Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 January 1911, Page 1

Useful References

FOR TRAVELLERS AND TAY-AT-HOME PEOPLE. Steamers leave Wellington for Ohrifltchtirch 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 <ret 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 they steam up to Melbourne and later on , to Sydney. As a means of enabling the «endor of a letter addressed to a place abroad to prepay the postage on « reply, the Department issues reply coupons on payment of n fee of Id. These coupons may be exchanged for a postage stamp oMhe value of 2 l ,f\ in any country which adopts the scheme. New Zealand's ponulntinn, including that of the Cook Islands and other dependencies, is now well over one million. In .Tune. 1908, the estimiated population of London was 4.795.757 The rateable value of property in England and Wales has rhem each year m'nee 1874. The figures arc na follows:— In 1874, £115.64tt.631. In 1888, £145.527,944. In 1894, £161.139.575. In 1908, £212, 757, 450. The total rateable value in 1874 represents 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 naval armamentfl. to the German Naval Ln.w. The German Navy Law of 1907 provides for the laying down in each vear from 1908 to 1911 of three battleships and o«e 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 Zeal awl's public debt at 31st March, 1910, amounted to £70.938534, Wie 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 nnder the Advances to Settlers and Workers Act, and £1.000,000 under the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Purchase Act. £250,000 was raised under the Loans to Local Bodies Ac*, and £211,495 under the Land for Settlements Act. .Great Britain's National Debt, on 31st March, 1909. stood at £754.121309, being a decrease of £5,704,742 bv comparison with the finrnres for tih© year immedb'at'ely preceding. 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 HOMBB ABBHWWN BY THEIR TEETH. A foaJl of tfx months has six grrlnders in each jaw, three on each aide; also six nippers of front teeth, with a cavity in eacb. At the age of one. year, he loses the first milk frind-era above and below, arad front teeth hav* their CRvitiefl ftTl»d up alike to teeth of horse* of eight rears of age. At *><■?<• of two and a half to three years, he casts his two front uppers, and in a short time after the two next. At age of fonr years, grinders are six upon each side, and at about four, and n-balf his nippers are all permament ones, by the replacing of remaining two comer teeth: tushes then appear, and he i« r,o longer a colli At frfw a norse has tushes, and tnere Is a black-coloured cavity in centre of all his lower nippers. At six this black oayity is obtiterafied in .-the two front lower nippers: At seven the cavities of the next two are filled up and tushes blunted ; and at eight the cavities of *he two corner teeth aTe filled up. $Rorfei may now he said to be aged. Cavities in nippers of upper jaw are not obliterated until the Horse ten years'old, after which become Tetrad, arid ■nippers project and change their surface.