Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 January 1911, Page 1

Useful References

FOR TRAVELLERS AND TAY-AT-HOME PEOPLE. Steamers leave Wellington for Christ church practically every evening in the week. 'Afternoon trains from Levin connect with them. 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 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 Wellington go on +o southern port?, and from The Bluff they steam up to Melbourne and later on to Sydney. A? a means of enabling the vendor of n letter addressed to a place nbroad to nrcp-iv the postage en a reply, thf Department issues replv "mipons on • payment of a fee of Id. These coupons may be exchanged for a postage .«tamp of the vnlne "»f 2&d in any country adopts scheme. New Zealand's population, including "that of tho Cook Tslands nnd ofhnr dopmirtanc; ■><;. is now well over "ne million. Tn .Tune. 100 ft. the estimated population of London was 4.795,757. TVio HfpnW" rnlvin of prfvpprty IT England and Wales has risen e<aoh vear since 1874. The figures are ns follows:— Tn 1874, £118.848,851. Tn 1888, £145.527.944. Tn 1894, £161,139.878. In 1908, £212, 757, 450. The total rateable valne 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 armaments. +o the German Naval Law. The German Navy Law of 1907 provides for the laying down in each vear 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 vear from 1908 to 1917 of two protected cruisers and one d'estrover. New Zealand's public debt at 81st March. 1910, amonnted to £70,988534. "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 nnder the Advances to Settlers and Workers Act, arid £1.000.000 under tho Wellington and Man aw at n Railway Purchase Act. £250.000 was raised under the Loans to Local Bodies Act. and £211.495 nnder 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 hv comparison with the figures for the year immediately preceding. Against this were set down assets totalling £37.16.0,000, the principal item being the estimated market value of the Suez Canal shares owned by Great Britain (£32,000.000 V AGE OF HORSES ASSHWWN BY THEIR TEETH. A foal of six months has lax grinders in each jaw, three on each side; also six nippers of front teeth, with a cavity in each. At the age of one year, he loses the first milk grindeTS above and below, and front teeth have' their cavities filled np alike to teeth of horses of eight years of age. At age of two and a half to three years, he casta his two front uppers,, and in a short time after the two next. At age of fonr years, grinders are six npon each side, and at about four and a-half his nippers are all permanent ones, by the replacing of remaining two corner teeth": tushes then appear, and he ™ t.o longer a colt At fifo a florse has tushes, and there Is a black-coloured cavity in centre of all his lower nippers. At six this black cavity is obliterated 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 the two corner teeth are filled up. Horse may now he said to he aged. Cavities m nippers of upper jaw are not obliterated hntil the horse is about ten years old, after wEich tushes become round, and nippers project and change their surface,