WET AND COLD.
|8y TELKGHArH. — SrECIAI, TO The POST.] CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Most parts of Cantsrbury have been visited by welcome rain which will do incalculable good to crops that were suffering severely from the effects of a long spell of hot dry weather. fn South Canterbury thero has been a considerable fall of rain, but much escaped, all but the fringe of it, and the northern district was less favoured than the south. With the change tba weather has become cold, remarkably cflld for the time of year, and in (some parts of south and mid-Canterbury enow ,19 to be seen a long way down the hills. At a station n«ar Methven, which stands at a considerable altitude-, over forty new.ly-shorn sheep succumbed to the cold and wet on Monday night, and it is feared that other stations have also suffered considerably.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 137, 9 December 1908, Page 3
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143WET AND COLD. Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 137, 9 December 1908, Page 3
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