Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 June 1911, Page 1

Useful References

FOR TRAVELLERS AND fIT-AT-HOME PEOPLE. Steamers feave WelHngfoft far ChristchnrcK practically every *T«»ing in the week. Afternoon train* from Levin connect witfi them. There are frequent trips porta further south, such as Dunedfn amd *Rie Blnff. Steam ere leave W«!Kngton for Sydnsy direct on Friday of every week, and anyone wno finds that day inconvenient may get to Bydney from Auckland, wfieno® a steamer leaved erery Monday, after having voyaged op from Wellington via Napier and wfaGorne. The inward steamers fro® Sydney to Wellington go on to oonffiern porta, and from The Blnff tftiey steam np to Melbourne and 1 artier en to Sydney. As a means of enabling the «wi«er of a letter addressed, to * place abroad to prepay the postage on * reply, the Department sssue# reply coupons on payment of S f©* of Id. These coupons may fce «ra*nged for a postage stamp of tfhe value of 2sd in any country wHci adopts the scheme. New Zealand's popnliWon, Including thai of thfc Cook Islands and other dependencies, is now well over one million. In June, 1803, the esttmaWl population of London was ?,7f8,787. The rateable value of property hi England and Wales fiaa rise® eccfc year since 1874. The Igureß ftfe as follows: — In 1874, £!Ii,BIMII. In 1888, £148,517,844. In 1894, £181,181,578. In 1908, £515, 757, "450. Th'e total rateable value in 1871 represents an average of £4 17s od per head of population, while m IWo the average was £8 per bead.