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Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 November 1915, Page 4

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I'OK LlEAin itiil-'JiUENCE. HINTS TO TItAVELLERS JN OPJSN COUNTRY. li' uuknowu ground is to be traversad and a long day's journey lies before you, be careful to'make an early "start ia the morning, ascertain leading directions before starting, and be certain tJ understand them thoroughly, as tiuio thus spent is uot lost on a long day's journey. Should you lose your way, and know of any habitation within reach, a nrilo or two is not lost n making enquiries there regarding vouv road. Never travel without matches Never take a suort cut over swampy or unknown gi'ouud. Always follow sheep or cattle tracks iu tho direction for -\vhicli you are making. If overtaken by fog, sliould you know a point guide yourself by it, and embrace every chance ot a clearance of the Hying mist, however slight, to discern a known object to guide your path. Should you miss track, return at once without fail Lo tne point af which you lest it, and make a fresh start on the rigiit track. ! It compelled to catnp out overnight, choose:a sheltered spot before darkness sets in, giving yourself sufficient time to complete all possible arrangements for porsonal comfort under such untoward circumstances in the way of gatnering fire material, grass lor bed, which place in rear of a flax bush. If raining, tie the ends of the tlax to tussociss around, so as to from a gentle awning to cover the body and throw the rain off. This, tussocks to fill up tfie gaps in the flax covering, will make not such uncomfortable quarters for the night as many suppose.

WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION ifOR AOCJiJDENTS.

Employers are made responsible for accident to workmen under certain conditions. Limit of liability whore death results, £50, bub 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 uot less than £1 a week, and total liability ot employer not to exceed £500. An employer not to be liable in respect ot an injury which ia proved to be directly attributable to the serious and wilful misconduct of the worker.

STAMP DUTIES

Agreement of Memorandum of Agreement, Is; with letters, etc., attached, 2a <Jd. Appraisement oi Valuation where tbo amount does nob exceed £20, Is.; oxceed £20, does not exceed £50, 2e (id, exceed £50, does not exceed £100, os; exceed £100,15s; exceed £500, 20s. Award, eamo as Valuations, except exceeds £500 but nob £11)00, 20s; exceeds £1000, 3os. Mills of Exchange.—Uu demand, id.; otherwise than on demand, if runmug singly, for any amount not exeeediuji 100, Is; every additional £50 or part of £50. l≤.; if drawn in a set, such sum upon each bill of the set as to make up iho same duty ae a a single uill were drawn for tlic amount. Conveyance.—Conveyance on sale; For every £50 or part oi £50 of tiio amount ot : the consideration for salo 7s (3d. Any instrument whereby any property is legally or equitably transferred to or vested in auy person tor a nominal consideration or where no consideration passes, for v\aiy £50 or part of £50 of the amount or value or the property conveyed or transferred or assessed under "The Property Assessment Act, i«bs," or any Act amending the mine at tlio date when such instrument takes lifect, 7s Ud. I'jomissory Notes. —L'ayuient on demand, Id. I'ayablo otherwise than .hi. demand : For every sum not exceeding £'25, od,; exceeding £25 and not exceeding £00, is.; every additional -USO or part of £50, Is. , . Duplicate or counterpart of any instrument chargeable with duty, where Kiich duty docs not amount, .to 2s lid., tlio same duties aa the original instrs*inent; iu any'other case, '/$ (id. Land Transfers.— Uener ally speaking, ihe same duties as would have beeu payable on a conveyance. l*'oreclosuro order, 10s, Lease, or Agreement to Lease, without any consideration by way of premium: Where rent does not exceed £60 2s (3d,; for every additional £50 or part of £50, 2s 6d. For any instrument affecting a partition of lands upon any consideration exceeding £100 by way of equality, lUi

UNCLAIMED MONEYS livery company (including banks, ltro insurance offices, and urins acting as agents or private bankers for indivi'liiaU or companies) must yearly register all unclaimed moneys in the colony iu an account which lias not been opov ated ou for six or more years; such register to bo open ior inspection u. payment of a fee; register to be p'.llished in the New Zealand Goyerjimeu; Gazette annually; notice to be.eeat to last known add rest of person, in whose name money stands; and money not claimed within two years of Buch notLf.v is to bo paid over to the Colonial Treasurer.

ONION CULTIJRE. Ailsa Craig, if of a good strain, «a. the best of the largo sorts—a shapey. clt an-looking bulb, and keeps lon<?r' than tho ltoccas. Brown Globe, 0.-l den Globe, James's Keeping, and Brown Spanish o.re all excellent late keepers None of the whiie-ekinnod vviatioa are ixorth growing, except for pickling. Picklfng-onions are obtained by sowrag

seed of White Queen or some sort, aHtt the middle of ftoveinuer. The soil should be poor, and made firm; &ow thickly, and do uot thin the plants. WORKERS 1 DWELLINGS. Uorough Councils .are* empowered by Iho Municipal Corporations Act to erect for the occupation of workers employed 01 resident in boroughs any buildings Suitable for.workers' dwellings, or may acquire buildings by purchase or otherwise, and render them suitable, for. the same purpose, > the letting to be in the hands of the Council. 13y section 52 of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, ; 1913, Councils are further empowered in regard to Avorkers' dwellings. The section yruvidea that a Council may (1) let land tD 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 .-my separate worker's dwelling. Provision is made for the repayment of advances and the payment of advances and; the payment of purchaee-money by instalments.

THE FENCING ACT,

ERECTION OF FENCES. A fence of any of the kinds mentioned in the Second Schedule, is a eufficient fence within the meaning of the Fencing Act (e.7). The occupiers of-adjoining lands not divided by a sufficient fence.are liable to join in or contribute in equal proportions to .the erection;.of a.fence Dβ-. tween such.lands,, although such fence may not extend along,theiwhole .boundary line. But no occupier is liable to contribute to. any , fence which. Ie not; u far u praoti»*ble, ooatinnoes throughout ite length.

THE ROLES OF THE *a)AD

The Rule of the Road ie a paradox quite; For in driving yoar carriage along, If you boar to the left you ere -wire to go right, If yoa turn to the rn*ht you go wrong. But in walking the etroets 'tie a different > case; ,:. To the right it is right wou ehoald eteer, On the left .should bo left enough of clear space Foi , fhe people #ho wish to walk there.

LEGAL TENDER.

Tender of monew may legally be made—in tfie cas eof ..bronze coins, for any amount not exceeding Is; in the case of silver coins, not exceeding 10s; in th ecase of gold coins for any amount, unless coined prior to the leign of Queen Victoria (33' and 34 Vic. c. 10, sec. 4, and Hoyal Proclamation 22, Nov., 1890). Bank notes are now legal tender in New Zealand and are still a first charge on the assets oi the bank of :.s«i/e ("Bank Note Issue Act. 1893 " TWELVE O'CLOCK AT NOON N Z MEAN TIME. As compared with — Adelaide ... v - 10 0 a.m. Aden 3 31 a.m. Alexandria 2 28 am. Ameterdam 0 50 a.m. Jjorliu 1 23 am. Heme 1 °» m iiombay 5 21 a.m. Uueton ? 4G P ni - Brindisi • • 1 42 am. Uritsbane 10 30 am. Brussels 6 24 * in. LAVING DO\V>: A LAWN. \Ma«u it is deriired tu form a ia vn, ih«.' giound siiuuk! bo trcnclioil na linx-U'd for Ihc vegftiiDU' ganli'M iimu ilie-'aiii niiiii. If the |>10l '•iiu ho pri'piued in M.iich, a seajo'i .i us be tjaiiii'd b.\ sowing the ;',rn>s M.-t'il dining Itiiit iiiotit'ii; tlio Mirf-icn iiii.-at bii tl.ioroi!j;lily piilvi'ri.MMl .ui>l iro<JJ. M down iiruily. - Iho following i.s a goi»il mixturo, it procurable:— CiX'ati-! iJJIjfH; I'Vstuca ■teii'iifolia, • 41!#s ; Kestuca durusciily, 21bs ; l.tiljiini tvuiiifulia porounc, 20lbs; White ulovur .L'lbs; Trifulium iiiitur. -•1!)S| I'oa Neuioia.'is and Sempervirens libs of vaJi. Tlim mixture will uf!ut for lialf an iirre, and will foriu a rery good l.v.vn, uml if kt-pt cut close answ'Ts most soihs. Special mixtures i'oi Ifiying down lawns may altio be nad from tiny BU'idsman. isomo of aur native pons and other grasses would answer admirably lor lawn purposes, il the ground is of a reteutive uatare, sowing the soods should be deferred till August. Commence, to cut as soon ae the machine will act. Some prefer the scythe for the first time of cutting. Roll previous- to mowi.ig; lliis v\ill save the knives of the mo.var.

1M roI; N , DING..C.\IT LE, BIC.

All .ircypn&sitij; rattle maj' bo in , pounded by the wen pier of iliu (and ■in which thi'.v an> tres- pausing; but in i.hi. , ca>o <>l iirid'tM'i'd l.iri'i. the Occu p.in , is "ii"t Hiititlnl mi '.-laiin luiy 'lain .a#\s exwpt fees lor driving, or ♦<>' _,ivii:j.; [iiitics til tin , detention nf Mien tatl.lu, a* ■ provul*s.i in th« Second .-tbcclule. ssEEDSIIEQDIRED TO SOW A\ A CUE. liarley, 2j| to 2| buohcls; beane, 2 to 2J bushels; buckwheat, or brank, 1J bushels; cabbage (druii.head), to tvans- , plant, 1 ib; canary, 3 pkgs; o-;rot in ■■'.rills, 8 to 12 lbs; clovor, '. «o 17 lbs; I'iiizc or gorsi. 1 , for Wvd, -') to 21 'jr; do. for single-line iencinj;. t«i sow one iiiilo, ;l to 1 lbb; k>.hi tali (tur.iip-tor-ic<l rabbag?), In transplant, 1 Ib; do'., drilled. 1 lbs, linseed, for-flas. 2J b'ifho's; linsfd; for soed, li bushels. luccrsio, br.op.tl'.-ast. 30 lbs; do., drilled, -15 It's; Ri'isinrd, -.rliito. 1 p_kt; mangold 5 lbs ; oats, 3 in 4 bushel?; parsnip, 10 lbs; rapo or cole, 1 pet; rye,' 2] to 3 'bushels; rye grass (if drilli'd. ono-fpurth tec-a), 2 to 2} Sushoh; s«inf<\in, giant. 5 bushels: tares, '.vipter, 2} bnshels; /J0... spring, 2 to 'i\' btishols; Irifolinin incarnatuinj 24 !!'s; turnip. 2 to 3 lbs; turnip stnbble, 4 lbs; whoat. 2i toj2i bushels.

jTEADFAST CONFIDENCE

(Jouldl btrongor pi'ool' ol Uio liior.L oi any product bo dcoiaii Li.an tlic .sta'.oiiionts ol gnilcl'ul eudcrsuis who s;i.v tluir confidence has ben ntidiminisned by the lapse-ol limoP These are tlie kind of stateinente that arc appearing m your local papers tor Doan'a Backache Kidney Pills. They aro twice-told" and confirmed witli new er.thußiasin. Can any reader doubt the following! , Mr J. W. Do Blois, Raufurly-strent., Palmerstcn North, Bays:—loan's backache Kidney Pills are a line remedy for rheumatism. i Have proved this, anil am sure, from my experience, that they are quite as good as they are claimed to be. 1 suffered from rhe.imatism for years, and one day a lnoiul who had heard ol a cure by D-:: Backache Kidney Tills, advised me to try this remedy. i got some \vitii'>;U delay, and used them with very satisfactory results. 1 can faithfully recommend Doan's Backache Kidney Pill;to any other sufferers." Twelve months later Air 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 kidneys, for ii 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 storokeepars at 3s per bottle (six bottles 16e (3d), or will be posted on receipt of price I. by Foster McOlellan Co., Hi Pitt-.streot, Sydney. [ But, be siiro you get DOAN'S.