Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 31 January 1911, Page 1

Useful References

FOR TRAVELLERS AND TAY-AT-UOME PEOPLE. Rteamera lenve Wellington for Christ church practically every evening in the week. Afternoon tiams from Levm <rith them. There are frequent trips to_ ports further south, such as Dunedin and The Hluff. Steamers leave Wellington for Sydney direct on Friday of every week, and anyone who finds that day inconvenient may get to Svdney from Anckl«nd. whence a steamer leaves every Monday, after having voyaged up from Wei li-'Ston via Napier nnd Gisborne. T'-e inward steamers from Bydney to Wellington go on +o southern p<Tts, and from The Hlnff thev st'-im up to MelKourne and later on to A- a me"'"." of enabk'ng the oonder of & letter «''dressed to a pla'-e abroad f o prejw +he p-svige on a reply, th- DepK- + >»-""t i-ues rep'\ coupons or oaymei" o' a fee of Id. These conj "•"■<» he evrh ««■"(, cd for a postagfc .-•■""■n of the of 2Jd in any countrj »hiih ndopt> the scheme. New Zealand's population, inoh''in" t'-t o' ,v> * C'-'V. Islands and other is vwv we" over one million. Tn .'me. 190!-. the esti'ra+e' : ' noon!."iion of 1 otil'"m was 4,?P0,75? The rnitenblo fnlno of property in England nm\ Wales hfta risen e«cii vear since 1874. The figures are as follows:— In 1874, £115.64H,f181. Tn 1888, £145,527.944. Tn 1894, £161.139.57.*!. In 1908, £212, 757, 450. The total rateable value in 1874 represents an average of £4 17s fid 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 paval armaments, to the German Naval Law. The German Narv Law of 1907 prorides for the Inving down in each vea.r from 1908 to 1911 of three battleships and one armoured cruiser; also in each year from 1912 to 1917 of one battleship nnd one armoured cruiser: also in ench 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 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 Manawatn Railway Purchase Act. £250,000 was raised nnder the Loans to Local Bodies Act, 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 for the year immediately preceding. Against this were set down assets totalline_ £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 TTORRE9 AS SHWWN BY THETR TEETH. A foal of dix months has Sax grinders in eaoh 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 grinders above and below, and front teeth hare their cavities filled np alike to teeth of horses of eight years of af«. At acre of two and a half to three years, be casts his two front uppers, snd in a short time after the two next. At age of fonr_ years, grinders | are six upon each side, and at about four and m-half his nippers are all permanent ones, bv the replacing of remaining two corner teeth:-tushes thpn appear, and he *" r.o longer a colt At fivo a Tiorse has tushes, and there Is a blaek-eolonred_ cavity in centre of all Mr 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 he said to be aged. Cavities in nippers of upper jaw are not obliterated until the horse is about ten years old, after which ■ tushes become round, and nippers • project .and ohange their surface.