BAD WEATHER.

Otago Witness, Issue 2171, 3 October 1895, Page 19

BAD WEATHER.

Sydney, September 24. A heavy snowfall and intensely cold weather are reported from the mountains inlaid. TheTe is great mortality amongst lambs and cheep owing to the cold following on the drought. The Union Company'o steamer Oonah had a perilous voyage from Hobart. She enoountered heavy gales on tbe TaGmanian coast, and after being four hours out from Hobart an accident happened to the high-pregsure cylinder. Had th« accident occurred half an henr before it did the vessel would have been on a lee shore, and owing to frightful pitching would have been qnlte helpless. The engineers took nine hours to e^fcannect the cylinders and put the vessel under compound engines. September 26. It Is still raining here. Vessels arriving report wild weather on the coast and that it is apparently travelling to Niw Zealand. The shfpMtiryßluuddl, whioh left Sydney a month ago for Mauritius, has put back. She met with a terrifio gale from the Ist to the 16th September. Tbe sea smashed the boats to matchwood. The captain, chief officer, and a number of the crew narrowly escaped being washed overboard. Oue man was seriously injured. The water got below, and aB the vessel was seriously damaged ehe bore up for Sydney. , Pebth, Saptember 26. • Tho steamer Golf of Lyons experienced a,

terrific gale on the voyage here, find lost 3G out of 102 horses shipped in Sydney. The remainder are badly knocked about. Adelaide, September 24. A fair rain has fallen ovor several important agricultural districts. The crops are saved for the present, and the outlook is brighter. Hobart, September 24. Snow is falling, and the weather is bittoriy cold, Numbers of sheep and lambs are perishing.