RAIN MAKING.

Feilding Star, Issue 352, 24 August 1907, Page 3

RAIN MAKING.

THE EXPERIMENTS ABANDONED* Eras run assocutioh.j Oamaru, August 23. Recently what is known as the rain making oommittee here raised £200 locally which the Government subsidised with £200 for the purpose of experimenting with explosives for rain making. The Government sent the Rev. D. C. Bates of the Meteorological Department to report and four members of the Submarine Corps fo- prepare bombs of dynamite, guncotton and powder. The experiments have now been abandoned, is having been demonstrated that the explosion of high or low explosives had no effect on the clouds. On Monday last a number of bombs were exploded on high land about 18 miles frpm Oamaru qnder favorable conditions but there less rain fell than in any part of the district. On Thursday the demonstration was on a larger scale, three points having been selected for the purpose. The conditions were again favorable, but the explosions had not the slightest effect on the clouds, which were laden with moisture, ana the commiti tee decided to abandon the experi- . ■ meats. Since the experiments rain, I: . which is general over the greater part of the South' Island, came in from the east and has been falling steadily since a late hour last night, and apparently with every prospect of continuing. A motor oar in which Mr Joseph \ Loiter had four guests, Mr and Mrs W. J. Davis andltr and Mrs George Leander, plunged into a mad-hole in .trying to avoid some waggons near GanneHon, Indiana. The couples had only been married a month, and ; were on their way from Louisville to spend the fourth of July with Mr Ziogler in Illinois. Mr Lederer's arm* were lacerated, and the other oooupant* of the oar escaped with only a shock. Wade's Worm Fig*— Wonderful "■■ Worm Women, It. \ fc.:W' . .. ■'■ - . ' '