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Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 December 1915, Page 4

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FOR 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 atari ia the morning, ascertain leading 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 Iβ not lost n making enquiries there regarding vour. road.

Never travel without matches. Never take a snort cut over swampy or unknown ground.

Always follow sheep or cattle tracks in iJie direction for which you are making.

If overtaken by fog, snould you know a point guide youxeelf 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 ij the point at which you lost it, and make a fresh start on the right track. ■

it compelled to eainp out "overnight, chocee a skeltered spot before darkness sets in, giring yoarseli: sufficient time to complete all possible arrangements for personal comfort undei* such untoward circum&tancea 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 tiax to tuesooks around, so as to from a gentle awning to cover the body and tiirow the rain off. This, with tussocks to fill up +.he gaps iu the flax covering, will make not such uncomfortable quarters for the night as many suppose.

WORKMEN'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 aflect employers' ordinary civil liability. Where total or partial incapacity for work results from the injury, compensation to be a weekly payment not lees than £1 a week, and total liability 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 wiilul uiisconduot of the worJcei*.

STAMP DUTIES. Agreement of Memorandum of Agreement, Is 3d with letters, etc., attached 3s.

Appraisement oi Valuation where the amount does not exceed £20, Is.; exceed £20, does not exceed £00, 2s lid, exceed £100, and does not exceed £200 10s, £200 and does not exceed £6'JO iuts, exceeds. £500 20s.

Award, same as Valuations, oxcepl exceeds £500 but uot £1000, 20sj exceeds £1000, 35a.

I'.n's. not exceeding £25 Cd, exceeds JJ2S, and not exceeding" &50 Is, every additional £50 or part oi' £50 Is. 10s.

Bills of Exchange. Oon demand 2il; otherwise than on demand, if running singly, for any amount not exceeding toll, Is; every additional £50 or part uf £50, Is.; it drawn m a set, sucu sunn upon each hill of the set as to m-dke up tho same duty ae n a single bill were drawn for the amount. Conveyance—Conveyance on salo: i'or every £50 or part or £50 of tiie amount of tho consideration for sale l& Od. Any instrument whereby any property is legally or equitably transferred to or vested in any pertson tor a nominal consideration or where no consideration parses, i'or waxy £50 or part of £o0 ui the amount or value ot the property conveyed or transferred or assessed under " Kho Property Asseesmeut Act, I ititiu," #1 any Act amending the >ame at tiie daLo when such instrument takei effect, 10s. i'roinissory iNutes.—i'ayiuent on doinand 2'd. Payable otherwise than on demand: I'or every sum not exceeding L2by (id, \ exceediug V2o and notexceeding £50, is.; every iulditkm-il £50 or part of £50, Is. Duplicate or counterpart of any instrument chargeable with duty, whertj such uuty does not amount to 'is, tho same duties as the original instrument; m any other case 3a." Laud Transfers.—Uenerally speaking, the same duties ae would have been payable on a conveyance. Lease, or Agreement to Lease, without any consideration by way of premium : Where rent' does not esceed' iJo\) 3s 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 a'l duty up to £5000 in respect to every succession by lineal descendant or ancestor.

UNCLAIMED MONEYS Every company (including banks, life insurance offices, and turns acting as agents or private bankers for indiviiuals or companies) must yearly register all unclaimed moneys in the colony in an account which has riot been opor ated on for six or more years; euoii register to be open ior inspection ci. payment of a fee; register to be published in the Now Zealand Government, Gazette annually; notice to be sent to laet known address of person in whose name money stands; and money not claimed within two years ot auoh notk'a is to be paid over to the Colonial Treasurer. ONION OULTI/RB.

Ailsa Craig, if of a good strain, i&, the best of the large eorte—a shape'j, c!t an-looking bulb, and keeps longer than" the Roccas. Brown Globe, G. , !- den Globe, James's Keeping, and Brow n Spanish are all excellent lat« keepers. None of the white-ekinned v%;iatiea are •worth, growing, except tor pickling. Piokling-onione are obtained by sowing

seed of White Queen or eoine sort,, afcoLi ' the middle'of VNo vein tier.- ! The soil should be poor, and'made linn; &o\v thickly, and do not thin the plants.