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Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 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 titart ia the morning, ascertain leading directions before starting, and be certain to understand them thoroughly, ae timo thus spent ie not lost on a long day's journey. Should you lose your way, and know of any habitation withia reach, a mile or two is not lost n making enquiries there regarding voar road.

Never travel without matches. Never take a Bhort cut over swampy or unknown ground. Always follow sheep or cattle tracks in the direction for which you are making.

If overtaken by fog, sJiould you know a point guide yourself by it, and embrace every chance ot 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 oamp 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 gatnering nie 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 cover the body and tlwow the rain off. This, with tussocks to fill up the 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 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 be a weekly payment not less than £1 a week, and total liability oi employer not to exceed £500. An employer not to bo liable f in respect of an injury which in proved to be directly attributable to tho serious and wilful misconduct of the worker.

STAMP DUTIES

Agreement of Momorandum of Agreemoiit, Is 3d with letters, etc , ., attached, 3s.

Appraisement ol Viiluation where tho amuunt does no I exceed £20, Is.; oxceed Jb2o, does nul exceed £50, 2s tid, exceed £100, and does not exceed £2')o 10s, £200 and doos not exceed £"S'JO 15s, exceeds £500 20s.

Award, same as Valuations, except exceeds £SUO but not £1L)OO, 20s; exi:oeds £1000, 355.

i'.n's. not exceeding £25 (3d, oxceeds £125, and not exceeding £o0 Is, every additional £50 or part of £50 Is. 10a.

liills of Exchange. Oon demand 2d; otherwise than on demand, if running 'singly, for any amount not exceeding £50, Is j every additional £50 or part of £50, Is.; if Uraivn in a set, sucli yuan upon each bill of the set as to make up the same duty as iu single bill waro drawn for the amount.

Conveyance.—Conveyance on sale; i ( 'or every £50 or part oi £50 of tiie amount of tho • consideration for sale, 7s Gd.

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 evmy £50 or part of £5U of tlie amount or value ol the property conveyed or transtenred or assessed under Property Assessment Act,. 1885," el any Act amending the 'aiue at the date when such instrument takes, effect, 10s.

Promissory Notes.—l'ayment on demand 2d. Payable othorwise than on demand: For every suni not exceeding i>2s, (id,; exceeding £2o and noi> exceeding £50, Aβ.; every additional £50 or part of £50, Is. Duplicate or counterpart of any instrument chargeable -with duty, wheresuch uuty does not amount to 'is, the same duties as the original instrument; in any-otuer case 3a; 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 : Whore rent does not exceed £6i> 3c for every additional £50 or part oi : £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 irespeot to every succession by lineal descendant or ancestor. UNCLAIMED MONEYS

Every company (including hanks, life insurance offices, and linns acting as agents or private banker* for individuals or companies) must yearly register all unclaimed moneys in the colony in an account which haa not been opor ated on for six or more years; such register to he open lor inspection tu payment of a foe; register to be published in the New Zealand Government Gazette annually} notice to be sent to last known address 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 OULURB. Ailsa Craig, if of a good strain, is, the best of the large Borte—a shape'j, cU an-looking bulb, and keeps longer than the Roccas. Brown Globe, Gulden Globe, James's Keeping, and Bro* n Spanish are all excellent late keepers None of the white-skinned v*.-teties are worth growing, except lor pickling. Piofeling-onions are obtained by sowing

seed of White Queen or some eort, afcoi.t the middle of November. The soil should be pocu , , and made nrih; iow thickly, and do not thin tho plants.

WORKERS' DWELLINGS

Borough. Councils are empowered by the 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 Oounoil. By section 52 of the Municipal (Corporations Amendment Act, 1913, Council* axe further empowered in regard to workers' dwellings. The Bectiou i>ru- j vides that a Council may (1) let land i to a worker for the purpose of erecting' a worker's dwelling; (2) advance money to a worker to enable hini to acquire land and build a worker's dwelling thereon j (3) sell to a worker n-ny 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(s.7). The occupiers of adjoining lands not divided by a sufficient fence are liaole to join in or contribute in equal proportions to the erection of a fence ue~ tween such lands, although eucli fence may not extend along the whole boundary line. But no occupier is liable to contribute to any fence which ifl" not, u far u prtotitahtej, owatinuoas throughout ite length. THE RULES OF THE IiOAD. The Rule of the. Road is a paradox quite; For in driving your carriage along, If you boar to the left you are jure to go right, If you turn to the ripht you go wrong. But in walking the streets 'tis a different ouse; To the right it is right wou should steer, On the left ehould bo left enough of clear space For the people ffho wish to walk there. LEGAL TENDER.

Tender of inonew niay legally be made—in the cas eof bronee coins, for any amount not exceeding Iβ; in the ca6e of silver coins, not exceeding 40s; in th ecase of gold coins for any amount, unless coined prior to the reign of Queen Victoria (33 and 34 Vic. c. 10, eec. 4, and Royal Proclamation 22, Nov., 1890). Bank notes are now legal tender in Now Zealand and are still a first charge on the assets ot 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 ■• 3 31 a.m. Alexandria 2 28 a.m. Amsterdam ... 0 50 a.m. Berlin •■• 1 23 am. Berne 10 am. Bombay ... 521 a.m. Boston' 7 4(3 p.m. Briudisi '■ 1 42 am. Brisbane 10 30 am. Brussels 6 24 *m. LAYING DOWN A LAWN. When it is desired to form a la.vn, tho ground should be trenched aa directed for the vegetable garden any time during the autumn. If the plot can be prepared in March, a season iray be gained by eowing the grass seed during that mouth; the surface must be thoroughly pulverised .uui trodden down firmly. The following is a good mixture, if procurable:— Crested Dog-tail, 21b"s; Festuca teuuifolia, 41bs; Feetnea duruscula, 21bs; Lolium tenuifolia perenno, . 201bs; White clover ,2Jbs; Trifolium minor, 81bs; Poa Nemoralie and Sempervirens 41bs of eacfi. . This mixture will suffice for half an acre, and will form a very good lawn, and if kept cot 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 lawn purposes. If the ground is of a retentivo nature, sowing the seeds should Do deferred till August. Commence to cut as noon as the machine will act. Some oreI'er the scythe for the first time of cutting. Roll previous to mowing; tJiie will save the knives oi the mo war.

IMPOUNDING CATTLE, EiU. All trospqesing cattle may be im pounded by the occupier of the land on whicli they are trespassing; but xu the case of unfenced laud, the ocoapier is not entitled to claim any damages except fees for driving, or for giving notice of the detention uf such cattle, as provided in the Second Schedule. SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE. liarley, 2J to Si bushels; beans, 2 to 2J bushels; buckwheat, or brank, li bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to transplant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; ovrot in drills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, 1. to 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 seed, 1J bushflls; lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled, 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold wurtzel, 5 lbs; oate, 3 to 4 bushels; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or oole, 1 put; rye, 2J to 8 bushels; rye grass (if drilled, one-fourth less), 2 to 2J >>ushels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, winter, 2J bushels; do., spring, 2 to '2} bushels; trifoliuim incarnatum, 24 2 to 8 Ibe; turnip stubble, 4 lbs; wheat. 2J to 2J bushels.