The Late Winter in England.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1835, 21 May 1886, Page 3

The Late Winter in England.

The late winter is said to have been the most severe known in England for twentyseven years. The London correspondent of the Me.honrne Argus writes ;—A snowstorm nr rather a series of storms, has this weekgiven us pome novel results. In Wales, in the hilly districts of Lancashire, West moreland and Cumberland, in North Yorkshire and in Northumberland, railway com - munication has been blocked by immense snow -wreaths. Numerous trains have been snowed up on their passage, and in some cases passengers have been confined in the carriages, without hope or relief, for fortyeight hours and more Their sufferings have been such as in this country, at any rate are without example. In one case pas sengers were dnvur to drink the water om of the footwarmers, to break open the ham pers of the parcel post for food, and we heai of certain of the more fortunate sort waitinf with eagerness whilst a rabbit was bein; cooked in the engine furnace. In the conn try districts there have been some loss of lift due to the imprudence of personsanxious b reach home whilst the storm was raging and in Wales particularly many thousands o' sheep and lambs have been lost in the hills Some of the trains coming south with cattk for the London markets have also had seriou ■ losses, the poor beasts being covered by th' falling snow, and then frozen to death ; and at Holyhead an Atlantic steamer—the Mis souri—went ashore in the driving sleet, and has since become a total wreck.