SEVERE WEATHER.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 255, 21 July 1908, Page 6

SEVERE WEATHER.

. • : -O — .... SNOW IN CANTERBURY. '' -GREAT LOSS OF SHEEP. ' (UT TEI.EGItArn.—SI'KCIM, CORIIKSrOS DEMT,) Chrlstchurcif, July 20. No rain has fallen for tho past forty hours, but tho weather continues cold, and is. apparently not at all settled. So far no reports liavo come, to hand of .any serious -'damage having resulted; down on tho plains from tiie v recent heavy rains. Deep snow is reported to bo lying on tho country at the; back of Mount Sonicrs, and the severity of the frosts may bo gauged from tho fact that l.*st week a mob or 1000 sheep was driven across t-lio ico on Maori Lake, some twenty miles inland from Mount Somers. The recent fall of snow is likely to bo more serious than was ,at first anticipated. In tho Mackenzie country, runbolders are. employing men at great to save as -many sheep as possible, but it is' stated, that where hundreds wcro lost after tho great snowstorm, somo few years back, tho loss this time will run into thousands. , Dunedin, July 20. Tho railway lino between Oturchua and ltanfurly is, still impassable, owing to frozen snow. It is impossiblo to plough after 3 p.m., owing to tho frost. Very little progress lias been -made, though two ploughs are at work. Th'o District Engineer is still unablo to return to Dimed'u.