Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 July 1910, Page 1

Useful References

—~— —« FOR TRAVELLERS AND STAY-AT-HOME PEOPLE. Steamers leave Wellington for Christchurch practically every evoking in the week. Afternoon trains from Levin/ connect with them. There are frequent trips to ports further south, such afc Dunedin amid Tlie Bluff. Steamers leavo Wellington for Sydney direct on Friday of every week, and anyone who finds that day inconvenient may get to Sydney from Auckland, whence a. steamer leaves every Monday, after having voyaged up from Wellington via Napier and Gisborne. The.inward steamers from Sydney to Wellington go on 1 to southern ports, and from Tho Bluff 'tlhey steam up to Melbourn'o and laiter on to Sydney. As a means of enabling the sender of a letter addressed to a place abroad to prepay tho postage on a reply, the Department issues reply coupons on payment of a fee of Id. These coupons may be exchanged for n postage stamp of the value of 2£d. in any country which adopts tho scheme. New Zealand's population, ineluding that of the Cook Islands and other dependencies, is niow well over one million. In June, 1908, the estimated population 'of London was 4,795,757. The rateable value of property in England and Wales has risen each year since 1874. The figures art ns follows:— Tn 1874, £115.040.631. Tn 1888, £145.527.944. Tn 1894, £101.139,575. In 1908, £212, 757, 450. Th'e total rateable value in 1874 represents an average of £4 17s Od per head of population, while in 1908 the average was £0 per head. People are puzzled to know what is meant by occasional references, in discussions an naval armaments, to the German Naval Law. The German Navy Law of 1907 provides for the laying down in each rear from 1908 to 1911 of three battleships and one armoured cruiser; also in each year from 1912 to 1917 of one battleship and one armoured cruiser: also in each vear from 1908 to 1.917 of two protected cruisers and one d'estrover. New Zealand's public debt at 31st March. 1910, amounted to £70,938534. tlhe increase for the twelVe months immediatelv preceding having been £4.484.037. Of this amount £1,200.000 was raised by way of public works, £1.048,800 under th'e Advances to Settlers and Workers Act. and £1 000,000 under the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Purchase Act. £250,000 was raised under the Loans'to Loral Bndie-n Act, and £211.495 under the Land for Settlements Act. Great Britain's National Debf. on 31st March, 1909, stood at £754.121309, being a decrease of £5,704,742 bv comparison with the figures for '+/li© t year immedliatelv prece<lung. Aorainst this were set down assets totalling £37.100,000. the principal item bping the estimated market vnlim of the Snez Canal shares owned by Great Britain (£32,000,000). AGE OF HORSES AS SHOWN BY THETR TEETH. A fowl of six months Jios six 1 grinders in each jaw, three on each side ; also six nippers of front teeth, with a cavity in each. At the age of one year, lie loses the first milk grinders above and below, amd front teeth have their cavities filled up aliko to teeth of horses of eight years of age. At age of two and a half to three years, he casts his two front uppers, and in a short time after the two next. At acre of four vears, grinders are six unon each side, and at about four and a-half his nippers are all permninent ones, by the replacing of remaining two cornet teeth: tushes then appear, and he is no longer a colt At five a horse has tushes, and there is a black-coloured cavity in centre of all his lower nippers. At six this black cavity is obliterated in the two front loweir nippers. At seven the cavities of the next. f "-o are filled up and tushes blunted : and at eirxht the cavities of tho ■Hro corner teeth are filled up. mav now be said to be aged. Cavities i" nippers of upper jaw to not obliterated until the is ten voars "old, after which tushes becrvm»' round, and nippers nroiect and ebanore their surface. TO ASCERTAIN THE WEIGHT OF CATTLE. Take the measurement of the <rirth whore it is smallest (close behind the shoulder) and the length of the animal from_ the_ front of the shoulder to the junction of the tail. Multiply thhe square .of the girth in feet nm.d "inches _by the length in feet, and multiply the product by .23, .24, .20, .28, or .30, according to the fatness of the animal, and the result will give the weight in imperial stones. For instance, if th'e girth of an animal in moderate conditioin be oft, the length sftr 4in, then G x o—3o x 51-3—192 x .24—47.08 stones. The foregoing is the carcase weight of the animal. The weight of the carcase would he about fof the live weight for cattle; for sheep, from 1-3 to and for a pig, frtom £ to 3 the live weight.