THE WEATHER.

Otago Witness, Issue 2842, 2 September 1908, Page 29

THE WEATHER.

WARM WINDS AND RAIN.

At 7.30 p.m. on Satui-day £h© -Telegraph Department rec©i\^d advice • from Ranfurly to the • following effect: — Taieri River in high, flood at "VVVi* piata; still raining heavily, and expect rivei 1 rise much"' higher.

Owing to the receipt of the above telegram come anxiety was expressed as to - whether the Taieri Plain would be again inundated On Sunday morning, however, ' the rise of the river at Outram wae seen to be very small, and in the afteraioon the difference was 'imperceptible.

THAW IN NORTH OTAGO. (Faoic Ou» Own Cohrkspomdimt.)

OAMARU. August 30.

A very warm wind has been blowing for the last 24 hours, and promises a rapid! thaw Of. the show on the hack country. During the part 'week or so one or two of the larger -stations have succeeded in getting portions of their, flocks down country, where- they can be fed. Perhaps after* tha present thaw a better idea of the losses will be obtained.

A correspondent at Becks writes: "Wo have beeil visited in this district with the greatest snowstorm on record, according to the testimony of the oldest residents. Stock _ of all kinds has in consequence suffered* very severely, and the losses, which in most oases ' are not yet aecertainable, will 1 be very great. Owing to the dry seasons -we have- lately had, the farmers have nob been "able -■• to grow feed in quantities to meet such t an emergency— the existence ' of the -late fall of ...snow, now extending to the eighth _ week^* — and - what, they . were able' to produce has now\, all but disappeared. Fortunately, , «<- thaw 'has now set in which, for the sake of; j. all concerned j " it is hoped, may continue until the e'nov has wholly disappeared. Tha great hardship and losses experienced- by", settlers in the neighbourhood are such, so many think, as should be brought under the favourable notice of the Ward Govern, ment."