Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 January 1911, Page 1

Useful References

FOR TRAVELLERS AND PAY-AT-HOME PEOPLE. Steamers leave Wollin prion for Christchnreh practically every evening in the week. Afternoon trains from Levin connect with ths?m. There are frequent trips to ports further south, such ns Dunedin an<l The Bluff. Steamers leave WellvnKton for Sydney direct on Friday of every week, nnd anyone who. finds t'vit d.iv inconvenient nifl.v urn f to Sydney from Auckland, whence a stt'fHKo'r leaves prory Monday. after having voyaged up from Wellington via Napier and Qisborno. The inward steamers from Sydney to "Wellinsrt.on ffo on *o southern ports, srnd from The Bluff thev pteam up to Melbourne ond la+er on *-0 Rv' ! ri"v. As n rrnarp of enabling thp condor ■>f a 'offer .iddrp.s'od to n nlnep ■•broad M prepuy the pashf)<rp op a -•epiy. f l !' -, TVp->rhnppf issues .reply fon pons on pavmoit of * f f -o "f 1 rl. These coupons may be exchmri-<-d fnr ,n flt:imp of the value of 2Jd in any conntry which adop A 5 fho schoiiiH. Non- ZonlnrfTp T>npnl fi iim. W"ludins that of the Hook Islands Tpd '•■'■lior fVT , n r ''p.i'icT-*vß. is now well over "no TT'i'l'on. Tp Tntm. IPOB, fh« ost-iTDfltpd nopnlntion of T,o7irlon wns 4-.7P c > 757. TVio mfptiMo mint* of proppr+v iti Pin eland nv'l Wale hns rispn renr since 1874. Tlih fiTnros arc ns follows:— Tn 1874. €115.RW.RSI. Tn 1888. £145.fi27.044. Tn ISP4. fiiei.l3n.s7R. Tn 1908. €212, 757, 450. The total rateable value in 1874 rep-rpso-nts an average of £4 17s M per bead of population, while in 1908 the average w<l a £fi per head. People are puzzled to know what is meant by occasional references, in discussions on naval flmiamppts. to the German Naval Law. Tho German Naw Law of 1907 provides for tho laving down in onoh vear from 1908 to 1911 of *.hm» battleships apd armonred cruiser; also in each y«ir from 1912 to 1917 of ore battleship and one cruiser : also in enoh vear from 1908 to 1917 of two protected cruisers and one destrover. New Zealand's public debt at Slst March. 1910, amounted to £-70,988534. tihe increase for the twelve months immediatelv precodinc having been £4,484.637. Of this nmount £1,200,000 was raised by wbv of public works, £1,048.800 nnder th'o Advances to Settlers and Workpr.o, Act, and £1.(100.000 nndor thn Wellinsrton and Manawatu Railway Purchase Act. £250.000 was raised nndor thp Loans to Local 'Bodi'p o Acft, and £211.495 under the Land for . Shipments Act. Groat Britain's Nfltionnl Dp-bi, on •list March. 1909. stood at £754.121309. being a decrease of £5.704.742 hv pompnrison with +ho fimiros fo r the year prpopdiino;. Against this wore set down assets j totalling £37.1fi0,000. the principal item bpi'ne the ostimmted market value of the Suez Canal sb'arps owned by Gront Britain (£32.000.000 V AGE OF HORSES AS BWWN BY THETR TEETH. A foad of sTx months hee isax grinders in each jaw, three on each side; also six nippers of front teeth, with h cavity in each. At the age of one year, he loses the first milk irrinders above and below, a.iid front teeth have their cavities filled np alike to teeth of horses of eight years of affe. At age of two and a half to three years, he casts his two front uppers, and in n short time after the two next. At age of fonr years, grinders are six upon each side, and at about fonr and a-half his nippers are all permanent ones, by the replacing of remaining two corner teeth: Pushes then appear, and he *« r:o longer a colt Ait fiVw a Tiorse has tushes, and tnere fs « black-coloured cavity in centre of all his lower nippers. At six this black cavity is obliterated i<n the two front lower nippers. At seven the cavities of the next two are filled up and tushes blunted ; amd at eight the cavities of the two corner teeth are filled np. Horse may now be said to be aged. ■ Cavities in nippers of upper jaw are not obliterated until the norse is about ten years old, after wEich tushes become Tound, and 'tripjpers i project and change their surface.