THE WEATHER.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13161, 7 July 1908, Page 11

THE WEATHER.

*—_— r Daring Sunday night and yaaterday very heavy rain. fell, persistently. Th*\ moisture that has fallen in the laaa ' throe weeks will be much appreciated "by fanners in those distatiota vixen the. soil received such a thorough parohinc last summer and autumn. - The fall at Chrktchu«3i ac regiefcered - by the rain gauge at the office of "H>» Press" for tao twenty-four hour* ending 2 b.m. to-day was .742 inch. Tbe - r-ainrall at Kaiapoi for the twenty-four hours ending 9.30 a.m. yesterday mm .28 inch. The the fink, fire days of July has been 1.09 iiH^m*Thero was a light frdsfc at Aebbur- ' ton yesterday morning. The weather was raw and cold wp till shortly after *noon, when a steady rain set in. The weather at flanmex during Hlw past few days has been changeable (writes our correspondent). Friday and Saturday were beautiful days, - with ©were frcete following, and on Sunday it commenced to snow. On ' Saturday morning at 7.46 tho thermometer outside registered 17 degrees of froet and inside 6 degrees, and on Sanday morning 10 degrees were registered j outside. Our Cheviot oorjTspondent writes:~» The weather hero is very wintry, rain falling in a doivnoour nearly every day. Tite ground ie so completely saturated that much enrface water is lying tiboiit. At time of writing there TCrouo indications of tibe weather clearing up. • (PRESS ASSOCIATION TKLEOKAIO.) ATTCKI.AND, July 6. A heavy cale blew all Sunday nighi afc Auckland, and the weather conditions are still Very stormy, causing much delay to shipping. A telegram from Paeroa states v that the river is bank high, and all low-lying land fc flooded. HASTTNOS, July <L Torrential rain fell at Hastings during the early hours of this morning. And by six o'clock the lower parts 3 tho town were flooded. In Heretaunga strent, near thd Princess Theatre, t£e roadway and footpath were submerged, and vehicles plied carrying people across tho flood. The waters are now subsiding very rapidly, and it ie not thought that serious damage will resol t. The weather is now fine. NAPIER, July ft. An oxtremely heavy downpour or rain, fell at Napier last night, but no danvape is reported. At Waipawa inoeamtt rain during the last twenty-four houm caused a flood in the river and the lowlying country to be submerged. Miner damage to bridges it also reported. The weather is now clearing.