EXTRAORDINARY WEATHER FORECAST.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8351, 24 June 1905, Page 4

EXTRAORDINARY WEATHER FORECAST.

Wednesday morning this week in Port Lyttelton mouth Saw an easterly breeze undeflected Bring a Storm from the north and a Squall from the south, And (strange to say) both were expected.

Probable English cable next week : " The Russian cruiser Dneiper (late St Petersburg) anchored off Brighton yesterday and knocked the Hotel Metropole into smithereens, killing a large number of women and children. At present, the Magnificent and the Glorious, with ten smaller cruisers and forty tor-pedo-boats are watching her, ready to expostulate if necessary. Mr Balfour regards the incident as most unpleasant, and will (at the end of the present Golf Tournament) ask the Russian Government to kindly discontinue this course of action."

Even the Kerrushed Wurrum will turn. So tho tattered remains of the walked-on cyclist are going to assemble in his Tens of Thousands and organise a big Road Run in order to withstand the Little Tyrant of his Roads, which is a mistake, and will only fizzle. Collections of energetic he-male cyclists of the more or less scorching order don't impress anyone worth a punched tram-ticket. Cyclists in bulk on public roads are nothing more or less than ghastly nuisances. What is wanted is a demonstration of the number of VOTES to be solidly cast by wheelers. That's the only argument to fetch our law-makers or even our by-law makers.