ARCTIC WEATHER.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1500, 24 July 1912, Page 4

ARCTIC WEATHER.

BAIN AND HAIL FROM THE SOUTH. Sunday's sunshine was too bright a last. The wind chopped round to the couth once more on Sunday night, and at an oarly hour yesterday morning it brought up ponderous luin cloud;, which lost no time in resuming tho operations suspended oai Saturday last. The galo had an edge. «r> keen as a razor, and lrcfluently throughout the day heavy showers of hail testified to tho temperature above. A particularly heavy fall was recorded between f.JJO Aiui 8 o'clock last ovoiiiup, and up to a lato hour last night licapedun mounds of frozen rain could be detected in unfrequented coma's in tho city. As the showers were intermittent, flood conditions did not obtain to anv extent in those suburbs which are usualfy affect«fl by heavy rain. The "snap" was iibout tlio coldest experienced in Wellington this winter. j PERRY BOAT FACING IT. (By Telegraph-Press Association.) Christchurch, July S?. After a brief spell of two days' fins ■weather, a boisterous southerly giilc blowup tho const yesterday, bringing with it heavy rain, hail, and sleet. This morning tho hills round LyOteltonfg&iarbour wero coated with snow an/1 The gale camo with a rising barometer, tho reading at Lytteltou at S o'clock this morning being 30.54 inches, Tho squalls lust night wero very violent, and, along tho coast, a hard south-west galo WM blowing. Steamers coming from Wellington had a very dirty night, and the force of tho galo was such that tho Maori was delayed over an hour on her run down to Lytte!ton. She left Wellington Wharf at 8 o'clock last night, ana ran. into a strong southerly galo with o. high sea outsido the Heads. She had a very stormy passage across Cook Strait and down tho coast, with frequent ficrco hail and sleet squalls. The Maori mado good time against tho gale, and pawed l!ie big cargo steamers Morayshire and Anglo Saxon, which had loft Wellington shortly after ■1 p.m.., a littlo to the southward of Capo Campbell. The Maori was kept going at full speed all night, but the wind and ssa <lid not abate until she had passed Cheviot, and she berthed tit Lyttelton Wharf shortly after 8 o'clock this morning, missing her connection with tho first express for the south.