THE WEATHER.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 149, 20 December 1907, Page 7

THE WEATHER.

6 WELCOME RAIN. [By Telegraph.— Special to The Post.] DUNEDIN, This Day. Light rain fell in Dunedin throughout yesterday. From Central Otago comes welcome news that rain commenced on Wednesday morning and continued incessantly till yesterday afternoon, the register showing that up till noon threequarters of an inch had fallen. Old residents of Alexandra declare that it is the heaviest fall since the 1878 flood. [BT TEU/JF.ArH. — rRESS ASSOCIATION J MASTERTON, 19th December. Rain commenced to fall late this afternoon, with heavy showers at intervals. It, will bo very beneficial lo the crops. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Heavy rain commenced to fall yesterday afternoon, but the weather cleared at midnight. The rain will do immense good to the country, but there must be a much heavier fall soon if the harvest is to be up to the average. CARTERTON, This Day. The prolonged drought here broke yesterday; when heavy rain fell continuously for several hours. The country was greatly in need of the rain. The milk supplies at the factories were falling considerably, crops were drying up, and the prospects generally wore bad. Rain fell yesterday after many weeks of dry weather. It lnd been threatening for days. Strong N. and N.W. ■ winds had been blowing for a week before, and the uplands around Wellington city had been mibt-eovorod, but there was no rain. Tanks were running low, and tlie supply in tho Zvawi reservoir was diminishing. The rain In the city yesterday was not continuously heavy, being for the most part a heavy Oregon mist, with intermitteuD showers of some severity; but it was sufficient to fill up domestic tanks and add a little to Karori rcsorvoir, although it did not raise iho level there an inch. In some of the suburbs the fall seems to have been heavier. Gardens look nil the brighter for the rain, and much of the accumulated dusl in tho street sido channels has been swept into the sewers and been carried out to sea.