MILD WEATHER

Evening Star, Issue 17393, 1 July 1920, Page 6

MILD WEATHER

CAUSES A THAW AND THREATENS THE TAIERI, BUT THERE IS NO ARARAT. The sky .signs at sunset, yesterday proridod a -puzzle. The very light breeze -was from the north-west, and warm : bub in the south-w-esfc the cloud? were banking no and looking like the advance . guard of the cyclonic disturbance that is said .to be approaching. As a fact, nothing broke upon ub all night, nor up to 5 p.m. to-day. The Routh-westerly threat vanished, and the wind continued warm. This, of course, melted the snow on the mountains, thui* causing -the streams to run high, and people' were wondering whether the Taieri would rise to such a height as to endanger the plain. Interviewing Air B. B. Con-ton, the Taieri County engineer, after lunch, he said: “ Aly advices are up to 12 o’clock. The creeks wore then high at Middleraarch, but the river there was not_ unduly Irgh; at Hindon the river was not high: at Outran! the river was low. These are coed reports: but, remember, I am speaking of 12 o'clock, and I am not too optimistic.” Mr AV. D. Mason wired from Middlemarch at 12.13 :■ —“ The thaw is general, but the creeks are now failing. The Taieri River may rise to-night, but not dangerously.”