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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1380, 5 March 1912, Page 5

"Summer at lost!" said a great many people in Wellington during last week". After a very wet spring, and a fickle early summer, there was a reasonable none that March, usually the best-beliaveu mouth of tho year here, would add a little joy to tho drab of life. It was not to be. With March can be said to havo como the farflung outposts of an early winter. Tho weather, which had been dull and close, thickonod into rain on Friday night, it poured during tho wholo of Saturday, the wind whisked round to the south and blew big'guns all day Sunday (with tho air cold enough to justify fires), and yesterday the rain continued to beat down disconsolately on tho sodden earth, dripping drearily without cessation from morn till eve. Strange to say, tho golfers report that, though it was raining and blowing in town on Sunday, they enjoyed a day of sunshine on perfectly dry ground. Indeed, somo of tho pcoplo out at Trontham wanted rain rather badly, and did not enjoy their immunity from the downpour. A good deal of rain has fallen at Wainui, and as a consequence tho city water supply has lost the taint that was so noticeable a week ago. Messrs. Abraham and Williams will hold a stock sale at Lovin on March 8. The displa'y of nowost London suitings at Million's, Kelburne Avenue, has many excellent clothes suggestions for the Easter season. The best time to call and select is now.—Advlt. Lieutenant-Colonel R. A. Johnson, In an address at the Royal United Serrico Institution, London, said, in regard to the Territorial Force, that tho greatest evils of the present lime were the exaggerated pessimism of the press, the soothing assurances of the Secretary of Stato for Wnr, and the marked silenco of his colleagues in tho Cabinet. The Secretary for War was not to be blamed for his optimism, but ho had a, habit of exaggerating both the numbers which were available at present- and the extent of preparation for war. Tho record for on* hours walking Is eight mJlfs *38 yards, held by Mr. 0. Fi. XMum*. rfig eononufid th« h«at in ISM,