WELCOME RAIN FALLS IN CITY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17758, 30 January 1926, Page 2

WELCOME RAIN FALLS IN CITY.

SUNSHINE TO SHIVERS IS MARKED CONTRAST. From sunshine to shivers was the contrast made by the weather between to-day and yesterday. Friday was a day of oppressive heat and glaring sunshine, the hottest to date this year. Saturday has been cold and wet and dismal. Rain, which commenced late last evening, kept up during the night and by this morning was falling steadily, though not so heavily as to be unpleasant. The weather will have a beneficial effect in the country, where rain has been needed for some time. The atmosphere in the city also was improved and refreshingly cooled by the rain after several days of oppressive heat. The rainfall was very heavy from midnight until 7.30 a.m. to-day, but after that the rain slackened off. By 9.30 a.m. 0.780 in had fallen. From 9.30 a.m. up to 12.30 p.m. only O.Olin was recorded. FIVE PICNICS PUT OFF. The rain this morning caused a postponement of five picnics which had been arranged to take place to-day. They were the Lyttelton Harbour Board employees' outing to Ashburton, the Lyttelton watersiders’ to Dunsandel, City Council employees’ to Lceston, P. and D. Duncan’s employees' to Lees ton and Loyal Orange Institution’s picnic to Kir wee. St Cuthbert’s garden fete, which -was to have been held on Mr Orton Bradley’s property at Charteris Bay, has been postponed. The special excursion train to Timaru,.organised by the Railway Department, left at 7.55 a.m. with 150 passengers. The express trains from Christchurch this morning were all well filled. Tne 8.50 express for Invercargill comprised ten passenger cars, all crowded, and the 9.10 relief express for Dunedin sixteen full cars. There were thirteen passenger cars, including two reserved for the British bowling party, in the West Coast express. BOWLING MATCHES POSTPONED. Owing to the sodden statc_ of the greens this morning, the Match Committee of the Christchurch Centre postponed the pennant bowling matches set down to be played this afternoon. CRICKET PUT OFF OWING TO WEATHER. Owing to the unfavourable weather I conditions, all the competition matches under the auspices of tht Canterbury Cricket Association were postponed today.