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Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 January 1916, Page 4

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| FOR READY REFERENCE. i HINTS TO TRAVELLERS IN OPEN COUNTRY. I If unknown ground is to be traversed 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 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 ib not lost n making enquiries there regarding "our load. Never travel without matches. Never take a snort cut over swampy or unknown ground. 'Always follow sheep or cattle tracks in the direction for which you are making. If overtaken by fog, siiould 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 oamp out overnight, choose a sheltered spot before darkness sets in, giving yourself sufficient time to complete all possiblo arrangements for personal comfort under suich untoward circumstances in the way of gathering lire material, grass tor bed, whioh 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 throw 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 TOR 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 ot employer not to exceed £500. An employer not to be liable in respect pi an injury which is proved to be directly attributable to the serious and wilful misconduct of the worker, STAMP DUTIES. Agreement of Memorandum of Agreement, is 3d with letters, etc., attached, 3s. AppiaisemenL ol Valuation where the amount does not exceed £20, Is.; exceed £20, does not exceed £50, 2s lid, exceed £100, and does* not exceed £2 )0 10s, £200 and does not exceed £600 las, exceeds £500 20s. Award, same as Valuations, except exceeds £500 but uot £1000, 20s; exceeds £1000, 355. t'.n's. not exceeding £25 Gd, exceeds £25, and not exceeding Juso Is, every additional £50 or part of £50 Is. 10s. Bills of Exchange. Oon demand 2d; otherwise than on demand, if running auigly, for any amount not exceeding 1.50, 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 it a single bill wore drawn for the amount.

Conveyance—Conveyance on sale: For every £50 or part ox £50 of tiio amount of the consideration for sate 7s 6d.

Any instrument whereby any property is legally or equitably transferred to or vested in any person tor a nominal consideration or where no consideration pass.es, for every £50 or part of £50 of the amount or value oi the property conveyed or transferred or assessed under "The Property Assessment Act, i.885/' or any Act amending the 'anie at the date when such instrument takes effect, 10s. - *

Promissory Notes.—l'ayment on demand 2d. Payable otherwise than on demand: For every sum not exceeding £25, 6d,; exceeding £25 and not exceeding £50, Is.; every additional £50 or part, of £50, Ib.

Duplicate or counterpart of any instrument chargeable with duty, wliers such duty does not amount to 3s, 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 £o0 3c for every additional £50 or part of £50 3s. lor any instrument affecting a partition of lands upon any oowiiden&tion exceeding £100. Soldiers' estates are exempt from all duty up to £5000 in respect to every succession by lineal descendant av ancestor.

UNCLAIMED MONEYS lvvery company (including banks, iii a insurance oflicos, and tirms acting as agents or priva+a bankers for indivi'i • uals or companies) must yearly register all unclaimed moneys in the colony in an account which has not been opor a ted on for six or more years; such register to be open tor inspection ti. payment of a fee; register to be published" in tbe New Zealand Government, Gazette annually; notice to be sent to last known address of person in whose name money stands; and money not claimed,svifcbin two years ot such notion is to be paid over to the Treasurer. ONION CULTURE. Ailsa Craig, if ot a good , strain, tbe best of the large eorta—a ahapey, cUan-looking bulb, and keeps loni*r than the Roccas. Brown Globe, O.'lden Globe, James's Keeping, and Bro* n Spanish aire all excellent late keepers. Noae of the .white-skinned rv-fstie* .are worth growing, except tor pickling, i Pickling-opiona are obtained by sowing

of White Queen or some sort, about

the middle of November. The soil should be poor, and made lirin; s»ow thickly, and do not thin the plants, WORKERS' DWELLINGS. Borough Councils are empowered by Ihe Municipal Corporations Act to erect tor the occupation of workers employed or resident in boroughs any buildings suitable for workers' or may acquire buildings by purchase or otherwise, and render them suitable for the same purpose, tie letting to be in the hands of the Council. By section 52 of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1913, Councils aire further empowered in regard to workers' dwellings. The section provides) tfrat a Council may (1) let land to a worker lor the purpose of erecting a worker's dwelling; (2) advance money to a worker to enable him to acquire laud and build a worker's dwelling thereon; (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 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 between such lands, although such fence may not extend along the wbole bouuline. But no occupier is liable to contribute to any fence which is not, m far m practicable, ooetinuo«s throughout its length.

THE RULES OF THE tfOAD. The Rule of the Road is » paradox quite; For in driving your carriage along, If you bear to the left you are dure to go right,

If you turn to the rijrht you go wrong. But in walking the streets 'tis a different case;

To the right it is right wou should steer, On the lefc should be left enough of clear space Foi tho people /vho wish to walk there. LEGAL TENDER. Teuder of monew may legally be wade—in the 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 reign of Queen Victoria (33' and 31 Vic. c. 10, sec. 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 oi the bank of •ssue ("Bank Note 7.« sue 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 -. 1 0 am. Bombay ... .. ... 5 21 a.m. Boston . . ... ... 7 46 p.m. Brindisi ... ... ... 1 42 am. Brisbane 10 30 am. Brussels ... 6 84 *m. LAYING DOWN A LAWN.

When it is desired to form a the ground should be trenched as directed lor tho vegetable garden eny time during the autumn. If the plot can bo prepared in March, a season nay be gained by sowing the grass seed during that month; the surface must be thoroughly pulverised ~iid trodden down firmly. The following is a good mixture, if procurable:— Crested Dog-tail, 21 be; Festuca tenuifolia, 41bs; Festuca duruscula, 21bs; Loliuin tenuifolia perenne, 201bs; White clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, tilbs; Poa Nemoralis and Sempervirens Jibs of each. This mixture will 'uflice for half an acre, and will form a v'oi'y good lawn, and if kept cut close answers most soils. Special mixtures r lajiiig down lanus may also be nad ironi any seedsman. Some of our native pons and other grasses wo-ild answer admirably tor !avvn purposes. If tho ground is of a retentive nature, sowing the seeds should be deferred till August. Commence io cut as ssoon as the machine will act. Some >reler the scythe for the first time of cutting. Roll previous to mowing; this will save the knives oi the mowar.

IMPOUNDING CATTLE, 810. All trespassing, cattle way be im pounded by the occupier of tbe land on whicfc they are x trespassing; but m the rase of 'infenced land, the occj pier is not entitled to cinim any damages except fees for dririjig ( or foJ giving notice of the detention uf vjcb cattle., as providod in the Second Schedule. SKEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN A ORB. tJarley, 2| to sf| bushels; beans, 3 to 2$ bushels; buckwheat, or brank, 1J bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to transplant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; ow.-rot in drills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, I. eo 17 lbs; furze or gorse, for feed, 20 to 24 be; 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, 2§ bushels; linseed, for seed, 1J busbala; lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled, 15 lbs.; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold wurtzel, 5 lbs; oats, 3to 4 bushel.'; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or cole, 1 pat; rye, to 8 bushels; »ye grass (if drilled, one-fourth lees), 2 to 2J bushels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, winter. 2i bushels; do., spring, 2 to 2} bushels; trifolium incarnatum, 34 lbs; turnip, 2 to 3 lbs; turnip stubble, 4 lbi; wheat' 2i to 2} bushels.