UNSETTLED WEATHER

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 92, 15 October 1913, Page 8

UNSETTLED WEATHER

Very dull and misty weather, with rain, and fog in most parts of the country, is the prevailing condition, to-day, though iin Wellington there riavß been occasional •gleams of sunshine. Tho barometer is j still falling, und there aro vi»riablf> winds, ■"northerly to easterly breezes ruling. Tho barometer is likely to fall considerably. The chief of tho Weather Bureau stales that a. storm area appears Vj bo ocvdloi.ing' this afternoon, and that tho conditions are likoly to be unsettled for several days. ____________

The New Zealand branch of the British Parliamentary Association, of which Mr. A. S. Malcolm, M.P., is local secretary, has arranged to entertain Mr. L. S. Amery, member of the House of Commons for Birmingham South, at lunch when he arrives in Wellington next Friday. Mr. Amery, who is to be the guest of the Governor during his stay in Wellington, will lunch with the Hon. James Allen on Saturday, and on Monday he will be entertained at luncheon by the New Zealand Club. An elderly man, 88 years of age, and a highly-esteemed resident of Waverley, has just suffered a terrible affliction On Saturday morning, it appears, he coitld not understand why it remained dark so \ong, and /ambling round he secured a match with tho object, of ascertaining the time. When lie struck the lucifer. however, he realised the cause of the intense blackness, for hi 6 eyesight had departed from him. while lie slept. He is now quite blind.