WETHERSTONES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2299, 24 March 1898, Page 28

WETHERSTONES.

Muicu "9— While the Uiiee nien cnjnjcd in building the addition to the dam, af, Mulouc's

Flat were at work last Wednesday, they were in the middle of a shower of rain attacked by a swarm of auts, which proved so troublesome that thsy could not get on with their work;. My informant said that he never in his life saw anything like it. The ants appeared to be ravenous. To get clear of them they had to collect a lot of tU3socks and Bet them on fire. The little wind there was was fiom the north-we3t ; but away in the north-west the sky looked blnckand threatening from the day before. Accident — A telegram was received here last week by Mr E. Cranley to the effect that his brothel Harry, who is a native of Wethemonas, was seriously injured at Waihi. having his hipbone and a rib broken. Mr E. Cranley left here at once for Auckland. It is scarcely five weeks since Harry was home here for a few days on a i tut. AY gather —We had easterly and aorth-east winds fro:n the 6th to the 15th. At times it would be calm, o T ali ht breeza might be blowing, and at others it would be blowing a strong, disagreeable wind. At 3 o'clock on the morning of the 13th there was a severe'gale from N.E.,_but it quietened down by suurise, atul there was a light shower in the afternoon Wo had frost on the mornings of the 7th and 10th, and frosty fog on the Uth. On the 15th there was frost, and the change came that afternoon, the wind coining away from the north west with showers, which increased to heavy rain at night. The 16th came in fine. By night it turned to rain, with n light wind from N.YV The following day was the worst, the wind being very unsteady, hauling about from, weat to south-west, with rough and heavy cold showers. The 18th came in clear and frosty ; wind ea&t, and by noon changed to northwest and look ng like rain. An 1 that closes my log for the preseDt. The lowest reading of thermometer, was 42deg at 7 a ni. on the 18th, and the highest 86deg at noon of the 10th, while in the sun the same hour it was 119deg.