Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 February 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. There are frequent trips to ports further south, such as Dunedin and The 81116. 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 Gisborno. The inward steameife from Sydney to Wellington go on t-o southern porta, and from The Bluff tlhoy steam up to Melbourne and Initer on to Sydney. As a means of enabling the sender of a letter addressed to ft place abroad to prepay the postage on a reply, the Department issues reply coupons on paymenit of n, foe of Id.- These coupons may be exchanged for a postage stamp of the value of 2Jd in any country which adopts the soheme. New Zealand's population, including that of the Oook Islands and other denendenciM, is now well over one million. In June, 1908, the estimated population of London was 4.795,757. The rateable vnlne of property in England and Wales has risen each year since 1874. The figures are as follows:— In 1874, £115,643,681. In 1888, £145,527,944. In 1894, £161,139,578. In 1908. £212, 757, 450. Th'e total rateable value in 1874 represents an average of £4 17s fid per head of population, while in 1908 the average was £8 per head. People are puEzled 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 the laying down in ©fioh year 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 year from 1908 to 1917 of two protected cruisers and one destroyer. New Zealand's publio debt at 81st .March, 1910, amounted to £70,988534, the increase for the_ twelve months immediately preceding having been £4,484.687. Of this amonnt £1.200.000 wae raised by way of public works, £1,048,800 under the Advances to Settlers and Workers Act, and £1.000.000 under the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Purchase Act. £250,000 was raised under the Loans to Bodies Act, and £211,495 under the Land for Settlements Act. _ Great Britain's National Debt, on 31st March, 1909, stood at £754,121809, being a decrease of £5,704,742 bv comparison with the for tfhe year immediately precedSng. Against this were set down assets totalling £37,160,000, the principal item being the estimated market value of the Suez Oanal shares owned by Great Britain (£32,000,000). AGE OF HORSESAg gH«WN BY THEIR TRUTH. A fowl of iSx > months has six grinders in each jaw, three on each side; also six nippers of front teeth, with a cavity in eacb. At the age of one year, he loses the first milk grinders a.bove and below, and front teeth have their cavities filled up alike to teeth of horses of eight years of "age. At age of two and a half to three years, he casts his two front uppers, and in a short time after the two next. At age of fonr ( years, grinders are six upon each side, and at about four and a-balf his nippers are all permanent ones, by the replacing of remaining two comer teeth: tushes then appear, and he i« no longer a colt At fivo a Tiorse has tushee, and there fs a 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 blnnted; and 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 horse is about ten years old, after which tushes become round, and nippers' project and change their smrfeoe.