SUCH LUXURIES.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8433, 19 March 1896, Page 1

SUCH LUXURIES.

We had a great time laßt weak (writea bhe Melbourne correspondent to the Hob irt Mercury) when on two succeeding days the thermometer went up to llOdeg and 109deg m tho shade, and seemed to stop there all night. Going into the city at 7.30 on one of those eveuings I looked at the glass on the railway station, and ib stood ac 99deg. I was theatre-bound, and, O, ye gods, how we leaked and trickled, till we had no tears for Mrs Ebbsmith, because of the escape which converted onr spinal column courses Into young irrigation channels. How we longed for a change, and next day we got, when ib rained without a minute's Intermission from early morn to Bloppy cave. The city was a swamp : the peop'e a multitudinous mass of sodden and washed out humanity ; and the odour of dripping umbrellas, and web mackintoshes was, if anything, a little bib worse than the Hobart livulet. Since then wo have been scorched and drenched alternately. Tho persisting rainfall ab the end of the week washed aU interest out of the intercolonial cricket nutch. So ble»k was the weath. r on Sa'urd<y thab the men played m thick woollen jerseys. Certainly na resident of Melbourne need travel for change of climate.