RAIN.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 983, 25 November 1910, Page 8

RAIN.

•„■ ' ■ P , .HOW THE COUXTHY I£ -FAKING. .5 / The little rainfall experienced does not g <eem to have been enough for the needs j ' " of the: country districts;-. ■ • In parts of the Wairarapa, where the country was still looking fresh,-the fair raers regarded this week's rain as nny.'el- • ! come, betaiise it interfered with-shearing. ' ■ Welcome rain": fell in: southern ■ Howke's Bay on Monday, aiid at-Wai- , ;. pukurau,- where the'heat had. been great (83 in the shade is reported), a thunder- £ jstoim passed over the 'district;.-and was j v * followed by heavy rain. ; r -'i : .In .ttie Beaconsfield district very sultry J ! . weather has been experienced for.som'e j> time, and rain was badly needed by the, "land .and the stock. There' was' some ; . thunder about on Monday, and_ farmers expected,that a good deal of rain would. ' follow. A few acceptable ■ showers fell, but a great deal more was wished for. Welcome rain began: to fall in the ■ Wanganui- district .oil Monday ;, evening, according to the "Herald/ 1 and.con tinned <'• : fok the greater, (pari of Vthc .-nighfi : : will be especially 1 .beneficial to' dairy pashires, which were beginning, to feel the effects of .the recent dry. spell. The roads, - which were beginning, to be cut up.'in . :; - consequence "of the heat, will, also be •:benefited.At the same time one or two - ''more downpours are- needed,- 'and - the appearance'of the sky suggests that .there is every- .likelihood .of com- , :;' j in?. •'• i'. ■' . The"Dannevirke:!News" says .that.the J ..... rain which fell on . Monday was iar heavier in the districts under-,the {ranges.. than in. Dannevirke'. In Rua: ,R6a and the , surrounding settlements, aH ' h'eavy i;.- downpour fell all the afternoon. and:.con- . - tinued well on into the night... There,'was 5 no wind, so . tho ground got■a thorough t . . soaking, which should prove, most bene- i .ficial to the crops. The recent fire, at i : Rua Eoa did an immense amount of good, 1 and enabled,a: great deal of .grass to .be •.» -. :put in where previously there waTnoth-. .jug -but virgin bush.: The rain should- <; enable the farmers who were in tho burnt .] v 'district to .-'obtain a really'good'-crop, of -c !' grass from' the seed, sown. 1 ' . Sunday was Ormondville's hottest. day • j..'/ this 1 summer. .On Monday a thunder- j r , ..storm occurred, and on ;• Monday and . ; ■ Tuesday refreshing showers fell. . More j \ - rain, however, is wanted infthe district./ 1 - '■ ■■■■■ It is reported. that the season is very, : ■ dry at Kumeti and Te Rehunga, and - s i: " 'that grass is somewhat'backward. .J ' .■ ~~—' 1