SUNSHINE AND RAIN.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 54, 27 November 1907, Page 2

SUNSHINE AND RAIN.

IN THE BUSH DISTRICTS. It seems as if the southern portion of tin North Island' cannot very well do withoui rain for more than a week. "With four 01 live days of real summer weather, oho notice: •in aspect of gloom upon the face of tin dairy-farmer, writes our AVairarapa corre spondent, and there are. murmurings tlia tlio country is becoming parched. This, not withstanding that we may have experiencec the wettest, winter and sjiring on record In Kkotahuiia it is supposed to rain ever; day in the week, except Sundays and statu tory holidays, but Jupiter Pluv'ius sometime; takes a spell, to the great disappointmen of the dairyman. : > There has just been sucl a spell in tlint district—a matter of about ■ mouth—and theu; there was a fall' of' rail which lasted for'two days.; "Ifmeans fill bucketsrUgain, • howeveiy' skid a big' Swcdisl farmer, '! aridwo are satisfied." Kaiporori seems to liave received a special dispensatioi in the way of rain',' according to tile state ment of one'rc-sident of that place, who say: that the fall there for the past two month: has been forty-four inches.