Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 September 1910, Page 1

Useful References

FOR TRAVELLERS AND TAY

AT-HOME PEOPLE,

Steamers leave Wellington for Christchurch practically every evening in the week. Afternoon trains from Levin connect with them. There are frequent trips ports further south, such as Dunedin and Tho 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 np from Wellington via Napier and Gisborne. Tlie inward steamers from Sydney to Wellington go on to southern ports, and from The Bluff they steam up to Molbonrnb and laier on to Sydney. As a means of enabling the sender of a letter addressed to a place abroad to pre-pay the postage on a reply, the Department issues reply coupons on payment of a fee of Id. These coupons may be exchanged for a postage stamp of the value of 2kl in any country which adopts tho scheme. New Zealand's population, including that of the Cook Islands nnd other dependencies, is now well over one million. Tn June, 1908. the estimated population of London was 4,795,757. Tho rateable value of property ill England and Wales has risen each year since 1874. The figures are as follows: — Tn 1874, £115,64(7,631. Tn 1888, £145,527,944. Tn 1894, £161,139,57-5. Tn 1908, £212, 757, 450. The 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 armaments, to tho German Naval Law. The German Navy Law 'of 1907 provides for the laying down in each year 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 year from 1908 to 1917 of two protected cruisers and one de«strover.

New Zealand's public debt at 31st March. 1910, amounted to £70,938531. the increase for the_ twelve months immediately preceding having been £4.484,037. Of this amount £1.200,000 was raised by way of public works. £1.018,800 under the Advances to Settlers and Workers Act, nnd £1,000,090 under the Wellington and Mnnawntu Railway Purchase Act. £250,000 was raised under the Loans to Local Bodies Act, and £211,495 under the Land for Settlements Act.

Great Britain's National Debt, on 31st March, 1909, stood at £754,121309, being a decrease of £5,?04,742 bv comparison with the- figures for the year immediately prececMng. Against this were set down assets totalling £37,100,000, the principal item being the estimated market value of the Suez Canal shares owned by Great Britain (£32,000,000).

AGE OF HORSES AS SHWWN BY THEIR TEETH. A foal of six months has six grinders in each jaw, thre« 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 ahove and below, and front teeth have their cavities filled up alike to teeth of horses of eight years of age. At age of two «nd a half to three years, he casts his two front uppers, and in a short time after the two next.

At .age of four years, grinders are six upon each side, and a.t about four and a-half his nippers are all permanent ones, hy the replacing of remaining two corner teeth; tushes then appear, and he is no longer a colt

At five a horse has tushes, and there is n black-coloured cavity in centre of all his lower rappers.

At six this black cavity is obliterated in the two front lower nippers.

At seven the cavities of the next two are filled up and tushes blunter! : and at eight the cavities of tho two corner teeth are filled up. Horse may now be said to he aged. Cavities in nippers of upper jaw aro not obliterated until the horse is about ten years old, after which tushes become round, and nippers project and change their surface.

TO ASCERTAIN THK WEIGHT OF CATTLE. Take tho measurement of the girth where it is smallest (close behind the shoulder) and the length of the animal froai the _ front of the shoulder to the junction of the tail. .Multiply thlie square of tho 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 conditioin be 6ft, the length sftr 4in, then 6 x 6—36 x 51-3-192 x .24-47.08 stones. Tho foregoing is tho carcase weight of the animal. The weight of the carcase would be about fof the live weight for cattle; for sheep, from 1-3 to §; and for a pig, from J to 3 the live weight.

The tobacconist had a cough so had, He looked as pale as death; His "pipes" were stuffed, he only "puffed," Could scarcely "draw" a breath. He looke da "weed' '"cut up," indeed, And thought he'd soon be "clay," But Peppermint Cure, that remedy pure, Drove ills and doubts away.