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Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 December 1915, Page 4

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EOR READY REFERENCE.

HINTS TO TRAVELLERS

IN OPEN'COUNTRY

If unknown ground is to be traversed and a long day's .journey lies before you, be careful to make an early atart ia the morning, ascertain loading directions before starting, and be certain to understand them thoroughly, as time thus spent is not 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 n 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, sliould 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 once without fail tj the point at which you lost it, and make a fresh start on the right track.

If compelled to camp out overnight, chocse a sheltered spot before darkness sets in, giving yourself sufficient time to complete all possible arrangements for personal comfort under such untoward circumstances in the way of gathering fire material, grass for bed, which place in rear of a flax bush. If raining, tie the ends of the flax to tußsocks around, so as to from a gentle awning to cover the body and throw tie ram off. This, with tussocks to fill up ihe gaps in tie flax covering, will make not such uncomfortable quarters for the night as many suppose.

WORKMAN'S COMPENSATION FOR

ACCIDENTS.

Employers are made responsible for accident to 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 bo a weekly payment not less than £1 a week, and total liability of employer not to exceed £600. . An employer not to be liable in respect of an injury which is proved to bo directly attributable to the 6enous and wilful inisconduot of the worker.

STAMP DUTIES

Agreement of Memorandum of Agreement, Is 3d with letters, etc., attached, as.

Appraisement ol Valuation where the amount does not exceed £20, Is.; exceed £20, -does not exceed £50, 2s (3d, exceed £100, and does not exceed £200 10s, £200 aud does not exceed £S'JO 15s, exceeds £500 20s.

Award, same as Valuations, except exceeds £500 but not £1000, 20s; exceeds £1000, 355.

P.n's. not exceeding £25 (3d, exceeds £25, and not exceeding £o0 Is, every additional £50 or part of £50 Is. 10s.

Bills of Exchange. Oon demand 2d; otherwise than on demand, if running singly, lor any amount not exceeding £50, Is; every additional £50 or part of £50, Is.; if drawn in a set, such sum upon each bill of the set as to make up the same duty as ir a single bill were drawn for the amount.

Conveyance—Conveyance on sale: For every £50 or part ot £50 of tiio amount of the consideration for sale. 7s (3d.

Any instrument whereby any- property is legally or equitably transferred to or vested in any person for a nominal consideration or where no consideration passes, for every £50 or part of £50 of the amount or value ol the property conveyed or transferred or. assessed under "The Property Assessment Act, 1885," M any Act amending the «auie at the date when such instrument take& effect, 10s.

Promissory oSlotes.—i y aymerit on demand 2d. Payable otherwise than on demand: For every sum not exceeding £25, (id,; exceeding £25 and not exceeding £50, .Is.; evory additional £50 or part of £50, Ib.

Duplicate or counterpart of any instrument chargeable with duty, wliero such duty does not amount to Ss, the same duties as the original instrument; in any other case 3s. Land Transfers.—Generally speaking, the same duties as would have been payable on a conveyance. Lease, or Agreement to Lease, without any consideration by way of premium : Where rent does not exceed £od 3;: for every additional £50 or part of £50 3s. For any instrument affecting a partition of lands, upon any consideration exceeding £100. Soldiers' estates are exempt .from all duty up to £5000 in irespect to every succession by lineal descendant or ancestor.

UNCLAIMED MONEYS Every company (including banks, lifo insurance offices, and firms acting as agents or private banker* for individuals or oompanies) must yearly register all unclaimed moneys in the oolony in an account which has not been opar ated on for six or more years; such (register to be open tor inspection cu payment of a fee; register to be published in the New Zealand Government Gazette annually; notice to be sent to last known addresa of person in ■■ whose name money stands; and money not claimed within two years or such notice is to be paid over to the Colonial Treasurer. ONION CULTURE. Ailsa Craig, if of a good strain, .6, the best of the large sorts—a ahapey, clt an-looking bulb, and keeps lonse' than the Roccas. Brown Globe, Gulden Globe, James's Keeping, and Brov 11 Spanish are all excellent lat® keepers None of the white-akinned ?».•[«tie* are worth growing, except lor pickling. Pickling-onions are obtained by sowing

seed of White Queen or some sort, at out the middle of November. The soil should be poor, and made tirmj.iow thickly, and-do not tliin the plants. WORKERS' DWELLINGS. Borough Councils are empowered by Ihe Municipal Corporations Aot to erect for 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 them suitable for the same purpose, the letting to be in tiie bauds of the Council. By section 52 of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Aot, 1913, Councils axe further empowered in regard to workers' dwellings. The section provides that a Council may (1) let 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; (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-money 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 to join in or contribute in equal proportions to the erection of a fence oetween such lands, although such fence may not extend along-the whole boundary line. But no occupier is liable to contribute to any fenoo which in not, m far as pr&otieable, ooatinaons throughout its length. THE RULES OF THE UGAD. The Rule of the Road is a paradox quite; For in driving your carriage along, If you. bear to the left you are dure to go right, If yoa turn to the ri/*ht you go wrong. But in walking the streets 'tis a different case; To the right it is right wou should steer, On the left should be left enough of clear space Foi the people *ho wish fco walk there. LEGAL TENDER. Tender of monew may legally be made—in the cas eof bronze coins, for any amount not exceeding Is; in the case of silver coins, uot exceeding 10s; in th ecase of gold coins for any amount, unless coincd prior to the reign of Queen Victoria (33' and 34 Vic. c. 10, sec. 4, and Royal Proclamation 22, Nov., 1890).

Bank notes are now legal tender in New Zealand and are still a first charge on the assets of the bank of 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 81 a.m. Alexandria 2 28 a.m. Amsterdam 0 50 a.m. Berlin 1 23 am, Borne 1 0 am. Bombay ... 5 21 a.m. Boston . . ... ... 7 46 p.m. Brindisi 1 42 am, Brisbane 10 30 am. Brussels 6 24 * oi. LAYING DOWN A LAWN. When it is desired to form a la.vn, the ground should be trenched aa directed for the vegetable garden p.ny time during the autumn. If the plot can be prepared in March, a scujon may be gained by sowing the ;?i".iss seed during that month ; the surfaco must be thoroughly pulverised .m<( trodden down firmly. The following is a good mixture, it procurable:— Cresto"' Dog-tail, 211jf>; Kestuca ten<iifolia, 41bs; Festuea duruscula, lilbs; Lolium teuuifolia perenne, 201bs; Wbite clover ,2lbs; Trifolium minor. 81bs; Poa Nemoralis and Semper vir ens libs of eacl). This mixture will uffico for half an acre, and will form a very good lawn, and if kept cut close answers rnoit soils. Special mixtures for laying down lawns may also be aad from any seedsman. £ouie« of .jur native puns and other grasses wo-ild answer admirably lor lawn purposes. 11 tin? ground is of a retentive nata.ro, sowing the seeds should De deferred til! August. Commence to cut as soonas tho machine will ■act.-. Some •>re■fer the scythe for tho first timo of cutting. ltoll previous to mowing; this will save the knives ot the tnowdr.

IMPOUNDING CATTLE, EIC. All trespassing cattle inaj be im pounded by the occupier of the (and on ivhicVthey are trespassing; but in the case of unfenced land, the occu p:er is .not entitled to ciaim any . damages, except fees for driving, or for giving notice of the detention uf «uch cattle, as provided in the Second Schedule. SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE. tiarley, 21 to 2J bushels; bean#, 2to 2J bushels; buckwheat, or brant, 1J bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to tranfrplant, 1.1b; canary, 3 pkgs; ovrot in drills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, I. eo 17 )bs; furze or gorse, for feed, 20 to 24 : bs; do. for single-line fencing, to sow one mile, 3 to 4 lbs; kohl rabi (turniprooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, 4 lbs; linseed, for flax, 2J bushels; linseed, for 6eed, 1J bushals, lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled, 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold wurtzol, 5 lbs; oats, 3 to 4 bushels; parsnipj ,10 lbs; rape or cole, 1 pst; rye, 2J to 3 bushels; rye grass (if drilled, one-fourth'less), 2. to 2J bushels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, winter, 21. bushels; do., spring, 2 to 2$ bushels; trifolium incarnatum, 34 lbs; turnip,. 2 to 8 lbs; turnip, stnbbl«, 4 lbs; wheat- 2J to 21 bushels.

ARB YOU RUN DOWN? —- 9- — Awaken to tho danger and aid the weakened ..kidneys. Kidney sickness of ten runs you down to the verge of collapse before you know the cause. When, you seem unable to pin your mind to any task, your back aches and you cannot do an ordinary day's work, it ie time to ask yourself this: "Are my kidneys working right?" The answer may he easily found. Weak kidneys slacken their filtering work, and the uric acid circulates with the blood, in many cases attacking tiie brain, nerves, muscles and vital o; - gans. Don't wait for the serious trouble. Begin using Doan's Backache Kidney Pills when you feel the hrst backache or first notice urinary disorders. This remedy has given new life and strength to thousands. Read th<s case

Mrs McMillan, c/o !)«, Kangitikei street, Pahnerston North, says:—"For years l was a great sufferer from backache and rheumatism, but although 1 tried numerous remedies - nothing gave me relief until 1 usedi Doan's Backache Kidney Pills. A friend advised mote.- take these pills and it was a real friend's advice. They gave me ease almost immediately and by continumg their uso for a lew weeks a perfect cure was effected; the pain in my Back has completely gone and I have no sign oJ rheumatism. People suffering from these ailments cannot do better than take Doan's Backache Kidney Pills. What this remedy lias done for mo it will dio for others."

Doan's Backache Kidney Pills aiv sold by all chemists and storekeepers at 3s per bottle (six Bottles 16s 6d) or •will be posted on receipt of price bv Fosfcer-McClellan Co., 7(i Pitt-street. Sydney.

But, be sure you get DOAN'S