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Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 November 1915, Page 4

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h'Oii READY REFERENCE. HINTS TO TRAVELLERS IH OPEN COUNTRY. - It unknown ground is to bo traversed and a long day's journey lies before you, bo careful to wake an early start ia the morning, ascertain leading directions before starting, and bo certain to understand them thoroughly, as time thus spent is nof lost on a long day's journey. Should you lose your way, and know of any habitation within reach, a mile or two is not lost a making enquiries there regarding vour road. Never travel without matches Never take a short cut over swampy or unknown ground. Always follow sheep or cattle tracks in the direction for which you are making. If overtaken by fog, siiould you know a point guide yourself by it, and embrace every chance of a clearance of the flying mist, 'however slight, to discern a known object to guide your path. Should you miss track, return at ouco without fail to tiie point at which you lost it, and make a frosh start on the right track. If compelled to camp out overnight, choose a sheltered spot before darkness sets in, giving yourself sufficient time to complete all possible arrangements for personal comfort under sucii untoward circumstances in the way of gathering fire material, grass lor bed, which place in rear of a tlax bush. If raining, tie the ends of the iiax to tussocks around, so as to from a gehtlo awning to cover the body and throw the rain off. This, with tussocks to fill up +he gaps in the flax covering, will make not such uncomfortable quarters for.the night' as many suppose.

WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION FOR ACCIDENTS.

Employers are made responsible tor accident u> workmen under certain conditions. Limit of liability where death results, £50, but nothing in Act to affect employers' ordinary civil liability. Where total or partial incapacity for work results from the injury, compensation to be a weekly payment not less than £1 a week,-, and total liability ol employer not to exceed £500. An employer -not to be liable in respect of an injury which k proved to be directly attributable to the serious and wilful uiisconduot of tho worker.

STAMP DUTIiiS. Agreement of Memorandum of Agreement, Is; with letters, etc., attached, 2s (id. Appraisement ot Valuation•whore the amount does not exceed £20, Is.; exceed £20, does not exceed £60, 2s 6d, exceed £50, does not exceed £11)0, 0s; exceed £100, 15s; exceed £500, 20s. Award, same as Valuations, except exceeds £500 but not £1000, 20s; exceeds £1000, 355. Hills of Exchange.—<Jn demand, id.; otherwise than on demand, if running sillily, for any amount not exceeding t.50, Is; every additional £50 or part ut £50, is.; if drawn in a set, such siim upon each billot the set as to make up die same duty as H a single bill were drawn for the amount. Conveyance.—Conveyance on sale: i-'or every £50 or part ol £50 of tiio amount of the consideration for sate 7s Ud. Any instrument whereby any properly is legally or equitably transferred to or vested in any person tor a nominal consideration or whore no consideration passes, for every £50 or part of £50 ul the amount) or value ol the property conveyed or transferred or assessed under "The Property Assessment Act, 1885," or any Act amending the same at the date when such instrument takes olfeot, 7s Od. Promissory Notes.—Payment on demand, Id. Payable otherwise than on demand: l°or every sum not exceeding £25, (id,; exceeding £25 and not exceeding £50, is.; every additional £50 or part of £50, is. Duplicate or counterpart of any instrument chargeable with duty, where isuch duty does not amount to 2s (3d., the same duties as the original ment; in any other case, 2a od. Land Transfers.—Generally speakiug, tiie same duties as would have been payable on a conveyance. "* foreclosure order, 10s. Lease, or Agreement to Lease, without any consideration by way of premium : Where rent does not exceed £50 2s Od,; for every additional £50 or part of £50, 2s 6d. i''or any instrument affecting a partition of lands upon any consideration exceeding £100 by way of equality, i 0,3

UNCLAIMED MONEYS Every company (including banks, liia insurance oiheos, and farms acting as agents or private bankers for individuals or companies) aiust yearly register all unclaimed moneys in the colony in an account which has not been opov ated on for six or more years; such [register to bo open tor inspection ii. payment of a fee; register to be published in the New Zealand Government Gazette annually; notice to be sent to last known add res* of person in whose name money stands; and money • not claimed within two years of such notice is to be paid over to the Colonial Treasurer.

ONION CULTURE. Aiisa Craig, if of a good strain, >!>. the best of tlio large sorts—a shape''.?. <:li an-lookiug bulb, and keeps lon?*' than the Roccas. Brown Globe, (.Video Olobe, James's Keeping, and brow n Spanish aire all excellent late keepers None of the white-ekinnedv*.-; Mies arc worth .growing, except for pickling. Pickling-onions are obtained by sowing

Seed'of "White Queen or some sort, about the middle of November. The soil t should be poor, and made linn; &ow thickly, and do not thin the plants.

WORKERS' DWELLINGS.

.Borough Councils are empowered by the Municipal Corporations Act to erect lor the occupation of workers employed or resident in boroughs any buildings suitable for workers' dwellings, or may acquire buildings by purchase or otherwise, and render thorn suitable for the same purpose, the letting to be in the hands of the Council. By section 52 of the Municipal (Corporations Amendment Act, 1913, Councils are further empowered in regard to workers' dwellings. The section i»rovides that a Council may (1) lot land to a worker for the purpose of erecting a worker's dwelling; (2) advance money to a worker to enable him to acquire land and build a worker's dwelling thereon j (3) sell to a worker any separate worker's dwelling. Provision is made for the repayment of advances and the payment of advances and the payment of purchase-mouey by instalments.

THE FENCING ACT. ERECTION OF FENCES. A fence of any of the kinds mentioned in the Second Schedule is a sufficient fence within the meaning of the Fencing Act (5.7). The occupiers of adjoining lands not divided by a sufficient fence are liable bo join in or contribute in equal proportions to the erectiou of a fence oetween such lands, although such fence may not extend along the whole boundary line. But uo occupier is liable to contribute to any fence which in not, a» far as practicable, continuous throughout its length.

THE RULES OF THE KOAD

Tbe Rule of the Road is a paradox quite; For in driving your carriage along, If you bear to the left you are «jure to go right, If you turn to the ripbt you go wrong. But in walking the streets 'tis a different case; To the right it is right won should steer, On the left should bo loft enough of clear spaco Foi the people #ho wish to walk there.

LEGAL TENDER. Tender of monew may legally be made—in the cas oof bronze coins, for any amount not exceeding Is; in the case of silver coins, not exceeding 10s; in th cease of gold coins for any amount, unless coined prior to the reign of Queen Victoria (33 and 3-1 Vic. e. 10, sec. 4, and Royal Proclamation 22, Nov., 1890). J3ank notes are now legal tender in New Zealand and are still a first charge on tbe assets ol the bank oi issue ("Bank Note Issue Act, 1893 " TWELVE O'CLOCK AT NOON N Z. MEAN TIME. As compared with—Adelaide 10 0 a.m. Aden 8 SI a.m. Alexandria 2 28 a.m. Amsterdam 0 50 a.m. Berlin 1 23 a in. Berne .. 1 0a in Bombay 0 21 a.m. Boston ... •• ■'•■ 7 46 pin. Brindisi ..." 1 42 a tn. Brisbane 10 30 am. Brussels 6 24 4 in.

LAYING DOWN A LAWN. When il is desired to form a \axn, (ho ground should bo trenched as directed for the vegetable garden any time during the autumn. If the plot can bo prepared in March, a season tray be gained by sowing the grass seed during that month ; the surface must be ' thoroughly pulverised <uul trodden down firmly. The following is a good mixture, il procurable:— Crested Dog-tail, 21 bs; tfestuca teuui folia, 41bs; -Kestuca duruscula, 21bs; Lolium tenuilolia perenue, 20Ibs; White clover ,21 lis; Trit'olium niiujr. Bibs; Poa Nemoralis and Sempervirens llby of each. Thus mixture will ulfiee for half an acre, and will form a very good lawn, and if kept, cut close answers most soilb. Special mixtures for laying donn lawns may alio be (ia.il from any seedsman. (Some- of our native poas and other grasses would answer admirably lor lawn purposes. 11 ihe ground i.s of a retentive nature, sowing the seeds should be deferred till August. Commence to cut as rfoon as the machine will act. Some prefer the scythe for the iirst time of cutting, Koll previous to mowhig; this will save the knives ol the mo.vai.

IMPOUNDING CATTI-E, El'O.

All tret-passing cattle may be ini pounded by the occupier of the lane: on which they are trespassing; but in the case of unfeneed laud, the ocen pier is not entitled to cinim any dam ages except fees. lor driving, or *<>' giving notice of the detention of vieh cattle, a«.. provided in the Second Schedule.

HEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN 'ACRE. ' rtarley, 2J to 1\ bushels; beans, 2 to 2i bushels; buckwheat, or brank, 1J bushels j cabbage (drumhead), to tvansplant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; ovrot in drills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, 1. co 17-lbs; l'uize or guise, fo; Feed, 20 to 24 bs; do. for single-line fencing, to sow one to 4 lbs;' kohl rabi (turniprooted _ cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, 4 'lbs, linseed, for flax, 2i bushels; linseed", for seed, r"J bushals, lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled, 15 lbs; mustard, white. 1 pkt; mangold ivnrtzcl, 5 lbs; -oats, 3 to 4 bushel?; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or cole, 1 put; rye, 2$ to 3 bushels; rye grass Of drilled, one-fourth less), '2 to 2J Vjshols; sainfoin, giant. 5 bushels; tares, winter, 2J bushels; do., spring,. 2 to 2J bushels; trifolium iucarnatum, K lbs: turnip, 2 to 8 lbs; turnip stubble, i lbs; wheat. 21 to 2J bushels.

JTEADFAST CONFIDENCE

Couldi stronger proof of the merit of any product be desired than the statements oi grateful endorsers who say thuir confidence has been undiminished by the lapse oi time? Theee are the kind of statements that are appearing in your local papers for Doan's Backache Kidney Pills. They are twice-told and confirmed with new enthusiasm. Can any reader doubt the following? Mr J. W. De Blois, Ranfurly-streot, Palmerston North, says:—Dean's Backache Kidney Pills are 1 a fine remedy for rheumatism. I have proved this, and am sure, from my experience, that they are quite as good as they-are claimed to be. I suffered from rheumatism for years, and one day a friend who iiad heard oi a cure by Doun - b Backache Kidney Pills, advised me to try this remedy. i got some without delay, and used them with very satisfactory results. 1 can faithfully recommend Doan's Backache Kidney Pills to any other sufferers." Twelve months later Mr De Blois says:—"My cure has proved a permanent one, no sign of rheumatism having returned since it was effected about two years ago.'' Don't neglect your kidneye, for il you keep your kidneys.well they will keep you well. Doan's Backache Kidney Pills keep the kidneys-well. "A word to the wise is enough." For sale.-by all chemists and storekeepers at 3s per bottle (six bottles 16a 6d), or will be posted on receipt of price by Foster McOlellan Co., Yo Pitt-street; ..Sydney. , But, bo sure you get DOAN'S.