The Weather.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 246, 31 December 1894, Page 2

The Weather.

A Warning to Settlers.

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The weather in this district at the pre- : sent time is phenomenal for dryness. Some seven years since wo had ;t suimnor aomolhing similar and the few previous summers were fairly dry. To those \v|io have been in tfiQ cus/ricl bu: a few years the continuous dry weather that we are having, and which to all appearances is likely to continue, comes rather ns u surprise ; and it will, in luy opinion, he " ise on the part of tho hundredfcnf settlors in this district, to look well sftor their homesteads during tho next few week* or months or there may he a repetition of wlmt occurred in Norsewood, Danovirke and Stratford some seven or eight years j since, when dozens of houses in thoso plan * v/ui demolished by fire. All the standing trtftth i/uiu r dry around a homestead should he’ felfbu ~, e. It is possible for settlers to cope with ‘no when tho timber is nil lying down, but where dry trees are standing in tiie vicinity of a *enii and the fire reaches them it is alnicst an m.j.' Pity to successfully c< >po with ii ni, . . ~ tancos; the result is a milled liOmeUwid, ana I bitterly may settlors have to pay for their 1 e.\p. u; <f . I 'eve. in my ox p'f Pieneb of "< 11. y ■ki pm (Jqlony seen 1 /■ cj ' 1 '• Ijdish *•* ilcmollKi. '£* mj and what has happ v . ugaiu.