Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 January 1911, Page 1

Useful References

FOR TRAVELLERS AND TAY-AT-HOME PEOPLE. Steamers leave Wellington for Christchurch practically every evening in the week. Afternoon trains from Levin connect with them, ihiere are frequent trips to ports ! further south, such as Dnnedin and The Blnfl. Steamers leave Wellington for Sydney direct on Friday of every week, and anyone who finds that day inconvenient may gel to Sydney from Auckland, whence a steamer leaves every Monday, after having voynged up from Wellington via Napier and Gisborne. The inward steamers from Sydney to Wellington go on +-o southern ports, and from The Bluff thev stenm up to Melbourne and later on to As a means of enabling tbe sender of a lptter addressed to a place abroad f o prepnv the postage on n reply, the Departmput issues reph coupons on mvment of n fee of Id. These coupons may he pxcbnnc pd for a postage stanrn of the vslm of in any country which adopts the scheme. Npw Zpalnnd's population, including fh;it of the Cook Island;. r»rid otbor dpp' i rirlenpt--v!, is now wpl l over o-no million. Tn .T'ino, 1908, the estimated nonulntion of Tjondfin was 4,795,75? Tbo ra+pablp vnlue of in England and Wales has risen each year since 1874. The figures are ns follows:— In 1874, fillS.flflJ.flSl. Tn 1888, £145.527,944. Tn 1894, £161.139,575. Tn 1908, £212, 757, 450. The total rateable value in 1874 represents an average of £4 17s 6d per head of population, while in -1908 tbe average was £fi per head. People are puzzled to know what is meant by occasional references, in discussions on naval armaments, to the German Naval Law. The German Navy Law of 1907 provides for tbe laying down in each veair from 1908 to 1911 of three battleships and one armoured orniser; also in each year from 1912 to 1917 of one battleship and one nrmourpd cruiser: also in each year from 1908 to 1917 of two protected cruisers and one destroyer. New Zealand's public debt at 81st March, 1910, amounted to £70,938534, the increase for the twelve months immediatelv preceding having been £4.484.637. Of this amnunt £1,200,000 was raised by way of public works. £1,048.800 nnder the Advances to Settlers and Workprs Act, and £1.000.000 under tbe Wellington a.nd Man aw atu Railway Purchase Act. £250,000 was raised nndpr Loans to Local Bodies Apt, 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 bv comparison with tbe ficures for tbe vear immediately precednncr. Aorainst this were set down assets totalling £37.160.000, tbo principal item bpinc tbe estimated market value of the Suez Canal shares owned by Great Britain (£32,000,0001 AGE OF HORSES AS RTTwWN BY THETR TEETH. A foal of six months has ht grinders in each jaw, three on each aide; also six nippers of front teeth, with a cavity in each. At the age of one year, be loses tbe first, milk grinders above and below, and front teeth have their cavities filled np alike to. teeth of horses of eight years of ae«. At aw of two and a half to three years, be casta his two front uppers, snd in a short time after the two next. At nge of four years, grinders are six upon eaoh side, and a.t about four and a-half his nippers are all wprma.nput ones, bv the replacing of remaining two corner teeth: +-ushes then appear, and he no longer a colt At firo a Ttorse has tushes, and there is a black-coloured cavity in centre of all bis 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 np. Horse may now be said to be aged. Cavities in nippprs of upper iaw I are not obliterated until the horse is about ten years old, after which tushes become ronnd, nnd nippers project and change their snrface.