ICE ON LYTTELTON HARBOUR.
HALF AN INCH THICK.
Residents at Lyttelton were greatly surprised yesterday morning to fiud that the outer harbour from Officers' Point, across to Ripa Island and Diamond Harbour, and up to Governor's Bay was frozen over with a sheet of ice fully half an inch thick. The report was scarcely credited at first, but seeing was believing, and numbers of people went down to view tbe unusual spectacle, such a thing being unknown in the previous history of the port. Several persons amused themselves by throwing stones on to the ice. Small stones, however, though thrown with a good force, failed to penetrate the ice, and went skimming away across its surface. As the sun got up the ice thawed rapidly, and by noon it was practically ail gone.
It was found on the s.s. Ruapehu going out into the fairway yesterday morning, the surface of the water was a complete sheet of ice, and as the vessel ploughed her way through it those on board the vessel could hear the grinding of the ice on the vessel's side.
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Press, Volume LII, Issue 9155, 12 July 1895, Page 6
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