A Severe Winter.
j_ Exchange.] 3 TTbafiNew Zealand is just now experiencing an abnormally severe winter is made slain by tidings on all sides. We m, Wanganui are enjoying vfroßtß,| both li aiV and sleet, and cold winds' which" find out all our little rheumatic weaknesses, and tendencies to Inmb^go. 80 far as show is concerned, we are content, to Vfaz^ at it afar off on the top of Mount Kuapehn, or hear of it on the Murimotu Plains. In the Seventy Mile Bush there has.. been the very unusual occurrence of snow storms,' and I a gentleman who caoie through, from Hawke's Bay to Wanganui on. Monday/ ua that between Makatoku (the present railway terminus) and Danevirke the snow felLheavily, covering the ground and trees. At t^e, latter'eettletnent, where the bush is more open, an|d' the climate warmer, the snow dwindled Hown into sleet, .but the who'e journey by coach was strongly ; suggestive of travelling m England m the good old JlWgst. *->--:q-- ■'^■■■■'' --- '■ ';■:■'>!'■■■ :■'
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 167, 20 June 1883, Page 3
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164A Severe Winter. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 167, 20 June 1883, Page 3
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