RAIN AT LAST.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIII, Issue 14350, 16 November 1910, Page 3

RAIN AT LAST.

USEFUL HEAVY SHOWERS. After longing for weeks for a good downpour of rain, farmers ant] g.irdeuers were given cause for rejoicing m ALc;ida\ nigb.it and yesterday morning, l when along the ecasfc lands that needed it most a good rain fell, averaging over an inc-li. The sky liad beau moro or less overcast at times during .uu:s few days' x?reviot!s]y, and on Sui;diy evj)in l; when a hot day gave place to a cool evening, with' heavily clouded sky and a southerly breeze there was ground for Imping that the long spoil • >!" dry. nor'west weather was about to be interrupted ill the besi. possible way. Kealisa'.ion of that hope was however deferred till late <>n Monday evening, when some good showers fell, and these were followed by a heavy downpour in the .small hours yesterday niornimi, and another during the forenoon The rain fortunately appears to have been general over the Icwlands, and though more would have been welcomed, the fall of an inch or so means the saving of a very large extent- of crops of all kinds from impending ruination, and will restore in tii9 pastures the Ki-owth that had practica'dy ceased. The sky was still well cloud-.y3 last- evening, and possibly more rain will fall soon.

Our St. Andrews correspondent writes:—Tiain started to fall here shortly after midnight on Holiday, and up tiil 11 a.m.. 011 Tuesday morning One inch of rain was registered at tiio public school rain gautte. On the liigliu' lands the wheat crops were almost too tar gone to be much benefited, hut u» the heavier land the rain will do ai» immense amount- of good. Hoot- crops especially, which up to the prescovs have scarcely shown np through ilia ground, will now have a chance to come awav.

Our Winchester correspondent writes • Tile long hoped for ra:u has come al; last, and it will lie of immense bene'.:v. to all the countryside. It began a,touc 7 p.m. on Monday and fell hsariiy through tile night, Tucsdav was showery and the total fail hy'o p. Ttli had reached nearly " inches.'

Per l'ress Association.

, BLENHEIM, No 1;5 .lho dry spoil lias broken in Marlborough, a good ram liaving fallen ''a all parts.

ASEBuRTON, Nov. 15. . After a light drier,is yesterday morning a heavy doivr.wnir of rain set in iate last night, H inches falling up to J O'clock-, and nearly a quarter of an men oehveen then and noon. The fall \>hieh is the first of anv consaoiicnr-a ror over two months, i., oxceedimdv weieome, and will. ba just in time to save tno crops and revive the pastures.

OAHIAIIU, Nor. 15. w&ioojua pasu fell over every narfc c| i.orch Otairo this ixoniing, in wcaluics a fall of one inch'beizu? vo-■oui-aod. Although in some instances H : ,v1 CI 't PS -n'" r £Gno t0

A rain that iei,ef i *® fannets in Canterbury, as the want of it had become a sorious inattei in those districts v. here the* land is light. Both cat,; and whe-t crops have h„4 to be fed off, and the land is fcemg replmighed for raiv A larsiß ;,,-ra is therefore likolv t<> l:o sown in nine tins season, in view ;.f the shortage of grass and the heavv erop -of lambs that will havt; to be fattened off. Spring-sown grain crops have done so badly thai; xfie rain will be almost too late -jo .„ ve them, but autumn-sown ernes th i ], so much affected by " - .v . '■ j should. a coed u. ; v.. j out weU. - 1