WINTER COLD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 64, 13 February 1936, Page 7

WINTER COLD.

HEAVY FROST AT HOME. HIGH SEAS RUNNING. (British Official AVireless.) RUGBY, Feb. 11. The spell of severe cold which began over the week-end continues. The temperature in Loudon this morning was three to four degrees lower than yesterday. There have been several cases of collapse from the cold, and two deaths are reported. Frost during last night, which was tlie coldest of the present winter, has left roads in many districts dangerous or impassable. In the Thames Estuary the water is frozen for about a mile out form the shore.

Although the gale of yesterday has moderated a number of ships sent out calls for help to-day in the high seas still running all along British coasts. In tlie Irish Sea the 3019-ton motor vessel Innisfalien, engaged tn the passenger service between Cork and Fishguard, went to the assistance of the Daunt lloak lighship, which was adrift, but was later taken in tow by the destroyer Tenados. The Folke-stone-Dunkirk service was again cancelled this morning. Air services are running late. ■ There is little likelihood of a substantial change in the weather yet. South Coast towns felt tlie force of yesterday’s winds, and many small vessels were in distress. Considerable damage was done by wind inland, and near Exminister a slip of a seawall occurred necessitating the closing of a section of the Great Western Railway arid the diversion of trains by another route.