RAIN AND FOG.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 243, 11 October 1916, Page 6

RAIN AND FOG.

OH liAHD AXDSEA. \\ SHIPPING DELAYED. \ Siioce Sanday night last until thi* V morning a practically continuous rainfall has been recorded, and this has been - accompanied by one of the heaviest fog»~ t ". on the sea ..that. coastal maete»vh»T?'"""iever experienced. Mr Burnett,theGovern ' ment meteorologist, reports the following" fi rainfall figures for the first ten days of ■" this month:—October 1, .31; October \2j:"'"- :- ---.15; October 4. .20; October 5, .01 r Orto- ' her 9, 2.16; October 10, ..77. The three; oversea liners in port, the Vermont, the Booral and the Turakina, in addition to; .... several coastal-steamers, Had to lay ■idle... " during yesterday owing 'to' the heavy -'■ rain. The Rimu at Onehunga could not leave for Raglan and Xawhia until thie .' afternoon owing to-the delay "to fer unloading consequent uppn the weather.;' The waterfront was busy this morning;' all the steamers making an effort to gain . lost time, and hasten departure. -i,]| The Northern Company has had to re-:. vise its time-table." and the Ngatiawa, which -waa expected this afternoon, ha» not yet been signalled. She was reported to be bar-bound at Opotiki " "'■:■- i The Euddart- Parker steamer Victoria ■ was Jcopsiderably .delayed by thejteavy; ;; fog, and did not arrive here until' noon v to-day. She will now leave for Duneditt :'-'■' and East Coast ports at 3 vjm, to- .' morrow. . * • ' The mission steamer Southern CroS-S which came into port this morning. *« . in the fog since Saturday laet. Captain. Burgess reported it as the heaviest fog" ne has ever seen. In several suburbs tlicre were large paddocks and iow lying areas inundated, ■;■; and miner subsidences "are reported from, various places. The embankment on the -Lake Eoad near the racecourse subsided ; yesterday, and it was found neceettrr ♦ S™* a feice for tne p-6tectibn of ■ ~, , The continued rain resulted in t "J*^ s1 * i » ki »g--pT»ee at Bayewateri about seven o'clock last evening. About HSy* o ** ot e*»h fell from the cliff. V oeaind the engine-house of the Takapuna Tnim and Ferry Compa-nv near the wharf. The line ■was blocked, ana one trip had to be missed, but a gang of men / _ p romptl y pnt onj with S th o Ttßoit :. : Sj!,* l - obstruction was quickly : snovelled away.

A party of 36 men, formerly belongiMf to the Field Artillery Reinforcemente, arnved at Auckland this morning from leatherston, having been io tne Reinforcement draft for the Ten- ; nexung Engineer*, now in training at > arrow Keck. It is -nndeietood *hat <ie ? en f . a « m »*Jy from the Tweaty-fiwt «*ft, the artillery branch of vMcb.bu oeen much reduced owing to the lea«n«4 war Office lately drew Mr. Allen's «tt» t*-«y, ha-nn* been iroeiuated to do so.