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Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 February 1916, Page 4

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• FOR READ* JIEFERENCE. 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 a tart in the morning, ascertain leading dir ections before starting, and be certain to understand them thoroughly, as time thus spent is not lost on a long day'b journey. Should you lose your way, ,and know of any habitation withio reach, a mile or two is not lost d leaking enquiries there regarding vou> road. Never travel without matches. N«vsr take 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, should you know a point , guide yourself by it, and embrace every chance of a clearance ot the flying mist, however slight, to discern a known object to guide your path. Should you miss track, return at once without fail to the point at which you lost it, and make a fresh start on the right track. If compelled to camp out overnight, i choose a sheltered spot before darkness • sets in, giving yourself sufficient time to complete all possible arrangements for personal comfort under suich unto- | ward circumstances in the way of gathering fire material, grass tor bod, which place in rear of a flax bush. If raining, tie the ends of the Max to tussocks around, so as to from a gentle awning to cover the body and throw the ram off. This, with tussocks to fill up the gap® in the flax covering, will make not such uncomfortable quarters for the night as many suppose. STAMP DUTIES. Agreement of Memorandum of Agreement, Is 3d with letters, etc., attached, Ss. Appraisement ot Valuation where the amount does not exceed £20, Is.; exceed £20, does not exceed £50, 2s tid, exceed £100, and does not exceed £2)U 10s, £200 and does not exceed £s'}o 15s, exoeeds £500 20s. Award, same as Valuations, except «xoeeds £500 but not £1000, 20s; exceeds £1000, 355. P.n'a. not exoeeding £25 ttd, exceeds £25j 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 | singly, for any amount not exceeding | £50, Is; every additional £50 or part I fii £50, Is.; if drawn in a set, such I tAUtm upon each bill of the set as to make ' up the same duty as it a single nil w ere drawn for the amount. —Conveyance on t>ale : For every £50 -or part of £50 of tiio amount of the consideration for sale 7a 6<i.'

* Anj) instrument whereby any property is legally or equitably transferred to or vested in any person tor a nominal consideration or wiiare no consideration pas&ttf* for wery £50 or part of ££30 : of the amount or value oi the property conveyed o® transferred or assessed under "The Property Assessment let, 1885,'' or amy Act amending tlie 'ame at the date jvhen such instrument take& j .effect, 10b. | Promissory .Notes.—Payment on dei mand 2d. Payable otherwise than on | demand: For every sum not exceedJ ing £25, 6d,; exceeding £25 and not exceeding. £60, Is.; every additional £60 or part of £50, Ib. Duplicate or counterpart of any instrument chargeable with duty, where ;Suoh duty does not amount to 3s, •the same duties as the original mstrurinaent; in any other case 3s. Jjand Transfers.—Generally speaking, thptwne duties as would have been payable .on a conveyance. JjgiMOT, or Agreement to Leaee, without aupj consideration by way of premium ; .Where rent doee not exceed £oi) 3e tot <trery additional £50 or part of £5Q 3a. For 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 VjT lineal descendant or ancestor.

ONIOW OULTURB. Ailsa Craig, if of a good strain, <s, the best of the large sorts—a ahape y, oltan-looking bulb* and keeps longer thaw tilin Rocoas. Brown Globe, Gulden GHobe, James's Keeping, and Bro* n Spanish aire all excellent late keepers. None of the white-skinned vvidtiw are worth growing, except lor pickling. Piokling-ooions are obtained by sowing

seed of White yueen or c-ouie i-ui I, a'.', i i the middle tsf Novum be.*.' '1 ho ioil should be pour, ami .njnio Linn; thickly, and du iml ihm tne plant* WOltfcLlilkS' hi W bLUNGiS. - borough Councils are empowered by Ihe Municipal Corporations -Vet to erect for ihe occupation of workers employed or resident in boiouglis any buildings suitable for worker;,' av\ eilings, or iuay acquire buildings by purchase or othervise, and render them suitable lor the same purpose, the kiting to be iu the hands of the Council. By section 52 oi' the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, IUI3, Council* are I'urthor empowered in regard to workers' dwellings. 'J'lie section provides that a Council may (1) let land to a worker lor the purpose oi' creeling a worker's dweiiius.^; (-) advance money to a. woiKer to enable him to acquire land and build a worker's dwelling thereon; (3) sell to a worker" :>ny separate worker's dwelling. Provision is made for tho repayment oi advances and the payment of advances and the payment of purchase-money by instalments. THE FENCING ACT. J&REOTION OF FENCES. A fence of any of the kinds mentioned iu the Second Schedule is a hutlicient fence within ilio meaning oi it-e Fencing Act (5.7). The occupiers of adjoining lands no' divided by a sufficient lenre are li;i!j e to join iu or contribute iu wikhl pro portions to the erection of u ienee o-; tweeu such land.;, such So no

ni&y not extend tii-e whole* boundary line. Hut no cwupittr is ualne to contribute to U-uco wbicil js not, as i.'u' z& ••..• thlougUout iU iiV.;:,:::. THE ItlJLiui 0: TUK n-.<Al>. The Rule of tlio iiimt ta a pp.ru ;,. (juite; For in driving your i arriuge along, If you boar to the kst you ure jure to if you turn to ;:x uyut you vv wrong. Bui. in w&lkiny; l- i < - .h a .i/i fereut ; To the rin-it it . ..;ot wuu mo iH; steer, On (bo Jeii *hur.(d b.f kt"t ttiwisgii ot clear For tlit> iu-ojj''- v" «wn vo vv:".!!i there. legal tf 'louder of woitew «."»>• legally lu» made —iu the cas »;<»i i>rttisso comtt, J'or auy amount not exc.-..-d;:i£ l.s; in the eas-j of silver coin:-,, not exceeding 10s; i:; th oea.so ol ji/.iia .'om.s lor <>ny amount, unions voir.*-*! prior i.o the reign of Queon ri:■_ i;nd 3J Vic. c. 30, sec. 4, and Jtioyal Proclamation 22, Nov., . Dank notes an; now legal lender in New Zealand and «j e »ti)l a Jirst cllflVge on llir U.--K !. •! ill" OS ktuo ("Hnnk XoU« i.-Miu Aet, IHUo TWELVE O'CI.OCX AT V.K;X N V, 51.KAN « As compelled wi'.i; Adelaide ... .. ... It l 0 a. in. Aden ... .. . . i? 31 i.iii. Alexandria . . ... 7, A.m. Amsterdam ... 0 <>L) i; m. Berlin .1 Vli .i in Borne -■ ... 1 0 :i. in. Bombay * >'! .n.-ii. Boston ... .7 1(5 p m Brindisi . i -!'2 .» m. Brisbane 1(1 30 a ui. Brussels ... .. 6 2i i «i. LAVING DOA i•A \V N. When it is Jcmi. -u i«»ru» •< i,i.vu. the groiind ..r.-ncii-. o a.;, di toe tod ior i■ ■ ■.' it;.. ./.udeii i-.ny tiiiio iho a-.-'ii-.t:. -11 thv can be pii|jaiid ..: r.S,uvJt, .-,-r.j-.>n tray bo gained Ly Mut.ipg the seed dining thai mo.-db ; the .--u;i'.u:o must bo ii..;i t >!:;;!i!\ pi:! \ ~nd trodden down firu.ly. ■ ; 'e following is a :j:ixls. 1\ , il ;n view! .iiio: - Crested Dog-tail, 2i5«.; {''coluca teiiuifolia, 4 lbs; i'cstuiM v - f : i•i;s( mi] a ? 2it)s, Loliuni '.'ha rviiiio. "2(Jibs; White clover .211«.; 'i riloiiiim minor, 811lS; l'oa Neniuruli;, :u:d Sei:iper','i:'eijs Jibs ui eaefi. i his u.i\tnre will uifice for ball' an iuto. aad will form it 7ery good lawn, aiui ii kept out ;do.-;e answers most iSfcoiai ,mixtu..«> for laying down luwns may be cut! from any .wdsnmn. of .>ur native poarf and wtlx's' «o-«ld answer a<iiiurably i«.t !aua puiyo.jys. .It the ground i.s oi ti-Leu live uaL-iro, sowing the seed.-s no dtd'ei red til! August- Coiiiiiieuco to en I 'at, .-.ooii as tbo machine will aet. Soiin: prefer the scythe for the iir.*t time of cutting. Koll i)ie'.lu!i. I.i niouiag: this v.'iil save Lhu kninv; u i tbo mou'er.

IMPOUNDING CATTI.Ii, L'lO. All irospas.-nni, wti t!«> may b<> im pounded by tfio wcrjibr oi' the land on wliick tho.v art- i--io m the csibo c!' Uiui'iK''. -i iaiid, thv 4«ca pier is ij"i entiticu 1;; ciailli ;sv dam ages exwpt f*es for driving, or foi giving noti-.! cf t't.> iiu'iiu ui' na-li cattle, ut_; proiHß-J ';i Lln> Second Schedule. dKKLNS REQUIRED TO SOW AX liarley. 2J to 7-1 bu.ibcl.s; boan*. 2 to 2J bushels; bu<'kwii<";t, or brank, 1J bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to transplant, 1 lb; canary, ;i pligs ; evrot in drills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, * . to 17 lbs; furze or for fred. I'o to 2-1 bs; do. for single-lino fencing, to sovr one tnile, 3 to i lbs; kolil rabi (t-uruip-rocted cabbai;*). to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled. 4 lbs; .linseed. for (lav, 2i bnaheii?; linseed. for ise-ed, 1 i buph?Ls , lucerne, broadcast. -0 lk;; do., drilled, 15 lbs; mustard, white 1. pkt; mangold wurtzel, 5 Hi.-.; ••■lti-.. 3to S busb-l?; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape <>r cole. 1 ptft; rye, 2J to 3 bushels; rye grass (if drilled, one-fourth lees). U to 2i bushels; sainfoin, giant-. >3 bushels; tares, winter, 2i bushels; cio-, spring, 2to 2} huehols; trifoliuin iiicarnatum, 34 lbs; turnip, 2 to 8 lbs; turnip stubble, 4 .lbs; wheat- 2i to 2J Luishals.