DISTANCE TABLE.

New Zealander, Volume XXI, Issue 2222, 13 September 1864, Page 6

DISTANCE TABLE.

Miles. From Auckland to London ... ... 16.000 „ Sydney 1,315 „ Melbourne 1,650 „ Adelaide ... ... 1,800 Hobarton ... ••• 1,300 „ Napier, about 350 „ New Plymouth, about 180 „ Wellington ~ 500 „ Nelson „ 520 „ Canterbury (Lyttelton) 680 „ Port Chalmers (Otago) 870 From Sydney to Manukau ... ... 1,200 „■ Nelson... ... ... 1,180 „ Bluff Harbour ... 1,100 „ Port Chalmers ... 1,230 From Melbourne to Manukau ... ... 1,440 „ Nelson ... ... 1,410 „ Bluff 1,202 Port Chalmers .. 1,300 From Napier to Wellington ... ... 200 From Wellington to Canterbury ... 170 From Canterbury to Otago ... ... 200 From Otago to Southland ... ... 130 From Manukau to Raglan ... ... 70 „ Taranaki ... ... 140 From Taranaki to Nelson ... ... 142 „ Wanganui ... ... 100 From Wanganui to Wellington... ... 98 From Nelson to Wellington, direct by French Pass ... 112 From Nelson to Picton by French Pass 87 From Picton to Wellington ... ... 50

SAXBY’S PREDICTIONS FOB 1864 AND 1865 List of days on which the weather may reasonably be suspected as liable to change, most probably towards the winds or lower temperature, being especially periods of atmospheric disturbance. September 2nd; 9th ; 15th ; 22nd ; 29th. October 6th; 13th to 15th; 19th; 26th. November 2nd and 3rd ; 9th ; 15th; 23rd; 30th. December 6th, 13th; 20th; 27th. 1865.—January 3rd ; 9th; 16th; 24th; 30th. February sth; 13th; 20th; 26th. N.B.—February 26th is likely to be a dangerous period, with probably a high tide. March sth; 12th ; 19th; 26th. N.B.—March 26th will probably be a dangerous period with high tide. November 6th; 13th ; 20th ;727th. December 3rd ; 10th: 18th; 24th; 31st. The preceding apply to all parts of the earth’s surface—(iren (in a diminished degree) tel het2 trade belts. N.B.— If the day marked proved oalm and still, distrust the. day .after,-and.especially the second day after.: The changes vary -iri.intfensity, but even at. quiet periods they may be plainly traced in the scud flying with a velocity totally, atvarianoe with the state of the air at the earth s surface, and the clouds at such times generally have a liny or stratified appearance, which usually indicates approaching rain. . . N.B —As a general rule, electric agency is feeble in May, June, and July, as compared with other months if, therefore, any, changes take place in those months, they will most likely happen on some of the days marked. My own impression is that the winters of 1864 and 1865 are more likely to prove frosty than windy. In bringing the above to the test of experience, a few memoranda may prevent unintentional injustice towards the system : 1. Do not consider the prediction a failure if the weather prove moderate. .The above days are dates of change, not, of necessity periods of bad weather. 2. 'VVateh for changes of wind at such times, and what sailors call, its uneasiness—flying about from point to point with unsteadiness. 3. A characteristic of these lunar periods, (when they prove quiet) is fog and haze, very often setting in the day before or a few hours before the date given. 4. When the mercury falls for a day or two before a lunar day, expect its effect to.last just about so long afterwards ; the lunar periods being the middle of the time of disturbance. 5. The barometer is not always affected by those lunar periods —but there is tendency in the mercury to either change its direction up or down at such times, or the apex of a curve projected by it will happen at such period. 6. The rising of the barometer on or after the “ second day after ” generally indicates the returning of fine weather. 7. If, on or about the “ second day after,” the mercury fall rapidly, prepare for a cyclone. (This only applies to the Atlantic district, and the western coast of France, England, Ireland, &c., on reaching which their presence is generally announced by Admiral Fitzroy’s coast warnings.)