INTENSE COLD IN THE SOUTH.
BIRDS AND DOGS FROZEN TO DEATH. ..,.;:.. Inveroargilii, last night. : Snow has been falling since yesterday. DtJNEDiN, last night. The weather is bitterly cold, and it ia snowing to-day. .. To-day. — There has been the heaviest! snowfall for years. Railway traffic was suspended until 9 o'clock. It is still snowing, four inches having fallen up to mid-day. ■ Timabu, last night. Six inches of snow fell at Fairlie yesterday and last night. There was a wintry wind here to-day, and snow clouds are passing over. A man named John Young and an assistant, who got thrbugh from Fairlie to Pukaki last week and back' to Fairlie on Saturday night, report two feet of snow between Burkes Pass and Te Kapo, two and a-half feet- at Te Kapo and Balmoral, three to three and a-half feet at Wold'a Plain, two feet at Simons' Pass, and one and , a-half feet at Pukaki. As far aa the eye can see, there is very little bare ground visible. Through the extreme cold dogs have been frozen, and small birds are dropping off the trees at the homesteads. Two men gob through with great difficulty. Their horsea had icicles five or six inches long hanging from their nostrils.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7399, 30 July 1895, Page 2
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205INTENSE COLD IN THE SOUTH. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7399, 30 July 1895, Page 2
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