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Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 December 1915, Page 4

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EOU 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 start in the morning, ascertain leading directions before starting, and be certain to understand thorn thoroughly, as time thus spent ie 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 matking 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 Ithe direction for which you are making. If overtaken by fog, should you know a point guide yourself by it, and embrace every chance ol a clearance of the flying mist, however slight, to discern a known objeot to guide your path. Should you misa track, return at once without fail ta the point at which you lost it, and make a fresh 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 such untoward circumstances in the way of gathering fire material, grass tor bed, which place in rear of a flax bush. If raining, tie the ends of the flax to tussocks around, so as to from a gentle awning to oover the body and throw the rain ! off. This, with tussocks to fill up the I gaps in tie flax covering, will make not such (uncomfortable quarters for the night as many suppose. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION FOlt ACCIDENTS. Employers are made responsible for accident to workmen uiider 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 £500. An employer not to be liable in respect of an injury which is proved to be directly attributable to the serious and wilful inisconduot of the worker, STAMP DUTIES. Agreement of Memorandum of Agreement, Is 3d with letters, etc., attached, 3s. Appraisement ol Valuation wliere the amount does not exceed £20, Is.; exceed £20, does not exceed £50, 2s (id, exceed £100, and does not oxceed £2'JO 10s, £200 and does not exceed £5(70 15s, exceeds £500 20s. Award, same as Valuations, except exceeds £500 but not £1000, 20s; exceeds £1000, 355. P.n's. not exceeding £25 6d, exceeds £25, and not exceeding £50 Is, every additional • £50 or part of £50 Is. 10s. Bills of Exchange. Oon demand 2d; otherwise than on demand, if running si ugly j for 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 tho same duty w it a single bill were drawn for the amount. Conveyance.—Conveyance on sale: I"'or every £50 or part oi £50 of the amount of the consideration for sale. 7s (3d. Any instrument whereby any property is legally or equitably transferred to or vested in any person tor a nominal consideration or where no consideration passes, for eveo-y £50 or part of £50 of the amount or value or the property conveyed or transferred or assessed under "The Property Assessment Act, j 1885," any Act amending the i ame at the date when such instrument takes eifect, 10s. Promissory Notes.—Payment on demand 2d. Payable otherwise than on demand: Eor 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, wliere such duty does not amount to 3s, the same duties as the original instronient; 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 £50 3b for every additional £50 or part of £50 3s. Ear any instrument affecting a partition of lands upon any consideration exceeding £100. , Soldiers' estates are exempt from all duty up to £5000 in respect to every succession by lineal descendant or ancestor. UNCLAIMED MONEYS Every company (including banks, life insurance offices, and firms acting as agents or private banker* 'for individuals or companies) must yearly register all unclaimed moneys in the oolony in an account which has not been opor a ted on for six or more years; such register to be open lor inspection cu payment of a fee; register to be published in the New Zealand Government Gazette annually; notice to be sent to last known add rest 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. Ailsa Craig, if of a good strain, is, the best of the large sorts—a ahape'y, cltan-looking bulb, and keeps longer than the Roccas. Brown Globe, Golden Globe, James's Keeping, and Brow n Spanish are all excellent lat« keepers. None of'the white-skinned wiatiea are 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 should be ; poor; and made firm; wjw thickly, and do not thin the plants, WORKERS' DWELLINGS. Borough Councils are empowered by Ihe Municipal Corporations Act 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 the hands of the Counoil. By section 52 of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Aot, 1913, Council* aa-e further empowered in regard to workers' 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 dotween suoh lands, although Buch fence may not extend along the wTiole boundary line. But no occupier is liable to contribute to any fence which is not, m fa* M praoti«»hU, coatinaoas throughout its length. THE RULES OF THE xtf)AD. The Rule of the Road is a paradox quite; For in driving your carriage along, If you bear to the left you are «iure to go right, If yoa turn to the 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 ffho 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 40s; in th ecase of gold coins for any amount, unless coined prior to the reign of Queen Victoria (83' 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 TJME. As compared with— Adelaide 10 0 a.m. Aden 3 81 a.m. Alexandria 2 28 a.m. Amsterdam 0 50 a.m. Berlin 1 23 am. Borne 1 0a m. Bombay ...' 5 21 a.m. Boston ... ... ... 7 46 pm. Brindiai ... 1 42 am. Brisbane 10 30 am. Brussels 6 24 am. LAYING DOWN A LAWN. When it is desired to form a la;vn, the ground should be trenched' as directed for the vegetable garden any time during the autumn. If the plot can be prepared in March, a season may be gained by sowing the grass seed during that month; the surface must be thoroughly pulverised .aid trodden down firmly. The following is a good mixture, if procurable:— Crested Dog-tail, 21Bis; Festuca tenuifolia, 41bs; Festuca duruscula, 21bs; Lolium tenuifolia perenne, 201' os; White clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, 81bs; Poa Neinoralis and Sempervirens 41bs of each. This mixture will "-uffice for half an acre, and will form a very good lawn, and if kept cut close answers most soils. Special mixtures for laying down lawns may also be nad from any seedsman. Some of our native poas and other grasses would answer' admirably lor !awn piirposes. If the ground is of a retentive nature, sowing the seeds should bo deferred till August. Commence to cut as soon as the machine will act. Some orefer the scythe for the first time of cutting. Roll previous to mowing; this will save the knives ot the mower. IMPOUNDING CATTLE, EIC. All trespassing cattle may be im pounded by the occupier of the land on whicli they are trespassing; but iu the case of unfenced land, the occupier is not entitled to claim any damages except fees for driving, or for giving notice of the detention of such cattle, as provided in the Second Schedule. HEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE. tSarley, 21 to Sj bushels; beans, 3 to 21 bushels; buckwheat, or brank, 11 bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to transplant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; ovrot in drills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, I, to 17 lbs; furze or gorse, for feed, 20 to 24 lbs; do. for single-line fencing, to sow one mile, 3to 4 lbs; kohl rabi (turniprooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, 4 lbs; linseed, for flax, 21 bushels; linseed, for seed, 1$ bushels; lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled, 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold wurtzel, 5 lbs; oats, 3 to 4 .bushels; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or oole, 1 pst; rye, 21 to 8 bushels; rye grass (if I drilled, one-fourth lees), 2 to 2J Vushels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, winter, 21 bushels; do., spring, 9 to 2J bushels; trifolium incamatum, 14 lbs; turnip, 2 to 8 lbs; turnip stubble, 4 lbs; wheat* 2$ to 2}i bushels.

ARB YOU RUN DOWN? Awaken to the danger and aid the ■weakened kidneys. Kidney sickness often runs you down to the verge of collapse betore 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 is time to ask yourself this: "Are my kidneys working right?" The answer may be easily foundi, Weak kidneys slacken their filtering work, and the uric acid circulates with the blood, in many cases attacking tiie brain, nerves, muscles and vital oigans. Don't wait for the serious trouble. Begin using Doan's Backache Kidney Pills when you feel the first backache or first notice urinary disorders. This remedy has given new life and strength to thousands. Read this case Mrs iMcMillan, c/o 98, Rangitikei street, Palmerston North, says:—"For years i 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 mo to take these pills and it was a real friend's advice. They gave me ease almost immediately and by continuing their use for a few weeks a perfect cure was effected; the pain in my Back has completely gone and I have uo sign of rheumatism. People suffering from these ailments cannot do better than take Doan's Backache Kidney Pills. What this remedy has done for me it will dio for others." Doan's Backache Kidney Pills are sold by all chemists and storekeepers . at 3s per bottle (six bottles 16s 6d) or will bo posted on receipt of price by Foster-McClellan Co., 7ti Pitt-street. Sydney. But, bo sure you get DOAN'S.