Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 September 1910, Page 1

Useful References

FOR TRAVELLERS AND TAY-AT-HOME PEOPLE. Steamers leave Wellington for Christchurch practically every evening in tho week. Afternoon trains from Levin connect with them. There are frequent trips ports further south, such as Dunedin and The Bluff. Steamers leave 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. Tho inward steamers from Sydney to Wellington go on to southern ports, and from The Bluff they steam up to Melbourne and later on to Sydney. As a means of enabling the oender of a letter addressed to a place abroad to prepay the postage on a reply, tho Department issues reply coupons on payment of a fee of Id. These coupons may be exchanged for a postage stamp of the value of 2Jd in any country which adopts tho scheme. New Zealand's population, including that of the Cook Islands and other dependencies, is now well over one million. Tn Juno, 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 arf ns follows:— Tn 1874, £115,64(5,631. Tn 1888, £145,527,944. Tn 1894, £161,139,575. In 1908, £212, 757, 450. Tho total rateable value in 1874 represents an average of £4 17s 6d per head of population, while in 1908 the average was £6 per head. People are puzzled to know what is meant by occasional references,

in discussions on naval flrmamemta, to tho German Naval Law. The German Navy Law of 1907 proF,iik§.J? r ,e down in each , cruiser; also in eacti~"year 'from 1912 to 1917 of one battleship and , ono armoured cruiser: also in each year from 1908 to 1917 of two protected cruisers and one destroyer. New Zealand's public debt at 31st Maroh, 1910, amounted to £70,938531. the increase for the_ twelve months immediately preceding having been £4.184,637. Of this amount £1,200.000 was raised by way nf public works. £1.048,800 under tho Advances to Settlers and Workers Act. and £1.000.000 under the Wellington and Manawatn Railway Purchase Act. £250,000 was raised under the Loans to Local Bodies Ar-t, and £211.495 under the Land for Settlements Act. Groat Britain's National Debt, on 31st March, 1909, stood at £754,121309, being a decrease of £5,704,742 hv comparison with the for the year immediately prece<ftng. Against this were set down assets totalling £37,160,000, the principal item being the estimated market vnlne of the Suez Canal shares owned by Gront Britain (£32,000,000). AGE OF HORSES AS SHwWN BY THEIR TEETH. A foal of s/ix months has six 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, he loses the first milk grinders above and below, and front teeth have their cavities filled up alike to teeth of horses of eight years of age. At age of two and_ a half to throe years, he casts his two front uppers, and m a short time after the two next. . At age of years, grinders are six upon each side, and a,t about four and a-half his nippers are all permanent ones, by the replacing of remaining two corner teeth; tushes then appear, and he is no longer a Ait five a horse has tushes, and -there is a black-coloured cavity m centre of all his lower nippers.^ At six this black cavity is obliterated in the two front lower nipP ers - . At seven the cavities of the next two are filled up and tushes blunted ; and at eight the cavities of the two corner teeth are filled up. TTors.o may now be said to be aged. Cavities in nippers of > upper jaw are not obliterated until the horse is -about ten years old, after which tushes become round, and nippers project and change their surface.

TO ASCERTAIN THE! WEIGHT OF CATTLE. Take the measurement of the girth 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 thlie square of the girth in feet and inches by the length in feet, a.nd multiply the product by .23, .24, .26, .28, or .30, according to the fatness of the animal, and the result will give the weight in imperial stones. For instance, if the girth of an animal in moderate conaitioin be 6ft, the length sftr 4in, then 6 x 6—36 x 51-3—192 x .24—47.08 stones. The foregoing is tho carcase weightt of the animal. The weight of the carcase would be about fof the live weight for cattle; for sheep, from 1-3 to f; and for a pig, from 5 to i the live weight.