Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 January 1911, Page 1

Useful References

FOR TRAVELLERS AND PAY-AT-HOME PEOPLE. Steamers leave Wellington for Christchurch practically every evening in the week. Afternoon trains from Levin connect with them. There are frequent trips to ports further south, such as Dunedin and The Bluff. Steamers leave Wellington for Sydney direct on Friday of every week, and anyone who finds that <\r.v m<.'<>nv«vnV:if, tikiy <zA to Sydney from Auckland, whence a steamer len res every Monday, after having voyaged 'ip from Wellington via Nnpier and Gisborno. The inward steamers front Sydney to Wellington sro on +-o southern ports, r>K(\ from The PUnff they .".team np to Melbourne and later on to Sydnev. As a means of enabling the «wTH'H j r of a h-itor atlclrwed +on place fib road t<> preTviv th° post-rigs on » reply, tho T>pp':r + mpnt issues reply coupons on pnymrvt of ? fee. of Id. These coupons m.iy be exchnngArl for n poetrxje ftfinrn of the ralnp of 2|d in' any country' which ndop+s the scheme New Zonlnnd's including th.it of r- 1 ? Cook [stands r>nrln + her fW.f< fM> <•'»■>.<;. is now Wf>" over one ?nil'ion. Tn .T'in-v, itW. th(-> vsti'mmied nonnlntion of Lon'inri wns 4.7Q-R.757. The rn+wihip vnlno of propprtv in Fn?rlflnd flnd W'llos bns m'spti t'flch venr since 1874. The fisurer; arc iis follows:— In 1874, £n5.64ff,fi81. Tn 1888. £14«,fi57.944. Tn 1804. £161.13f1.578. Tn 1908, £212. 757, 4RO. The total rateable, value in 1874 represewte an avennee of £4 17s M per head of population, while in 1908 the average was £6 per hend. People are puzzled to know what is meant by occasional references, in discussions on navnl firmaments, to the German Naval Law. The German Now Law of 1907 provides for the lnvinp: down in each vea.r from 1908 to 1911 of battleships and «rmonre<T cruiser; also in each ycmr from 1912 to 1917 of one battleship and one armoured crui.spr ; also in eneh year from 1908 to 1917 of two protected cruisers and one destroyer. New Zealand's public debt at 31 st March, 1910, amounted to £70,958534, the increase for the twelve months immediately preeedinc: having been £4,484,857. Of this amonnt £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 Wellinctfon and Mnnawntu Railway Purchase Act. £250.000 was raised under thsLonnß to Local Bodies Act, and £211,495 nndar the Land for Settlements Act. Grwvt Britain's National Debt, on 31st March, 1909, stood at £754,121309, beine; a. decrease of £5,? 04.742 bv comparison with the figures for the year immedliately Against this wero set down assets totalling £37.160,000, the principal item beine the estimated market value of the Suez Cinnl shares owned by Grent Britain (£32,000.000). AGE OF HORSTSS ABJWWN BY THETR TRftTH. A foail of six months hee sax grinders in each jaw, three on each side; also six nippers of front teeth, with n, cavity in encb. At the agre of one year, he loses the first milk Tinders abovo and below, and front teeth have their cavities filled alike to teeth of horses of eic;ht years of age. At age of two land a, half to three years, he caste his two front uppers, and: in a short time after the two next. At age of four years, grinders are six upon each side, and at About four and m-balf his nippers are all permanent ones, by the replacing of remaining two corner teeth '. +nshes then appear, and ho i< , t.o longer a colt At fi>w a norse has tushes, and tfiere 1s n black-coloured cavity in centre of all his lower nippers. _ At six this black cavity is obliterated, rn the two front lower nippers. At seven the cavities of the next two are filled np and tushes blunted ; aind at eight the cavities of *he two comer teeth are filled up. Horse may now be said to be aged. Cavities in nippers of upper jaw are not obliterated until the horse is about ten years old, after wEich tushes become Tound, and nippers project and change their surface.