DROPPED ON KARORI.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1826, 12 August 1913, Page 4

DROPPED ON KARORI.

"YELLOW STUFF" FROM THE SKT. It is , very seldom that anything disturbs tho rural culm of Karori, unless it bo a stray cow on tho highway or a reckless motorist with an obscured back number, but yesterday morning something occurred, which set tho township tajking. At about 10 a.m. there was a shower of rain, or rather what peoplo thought was ruin, but to everyone's surprise and tho alarm of not a few, tho rain left a yellow deposit on the in tho paddocks, ■ and the gardens', aud on tho roofs. Some concluded. Uiat there had been, "a big burstup somewhere," and that tho deposit was sulphur dust brought down by tho rain. Certainly it was "eomothing yellow," and that "something" could lw seen for hours afterwards in tho water-channels. Others were inclined to the belief that tho deposit was "tho pollen of the pine" that Kipling sings oil. As tho stuff was mixed with mud and earth by tho time that anyone sought to gather a sample, only an analysis can determine what it is. Ono Karori resident gives it as his belief that tho deposit was sulphur, and that whilst' it was falling ho perceived a gaseous smell "like burning varnish," which convinced him that thero must havo been <i dislurbanco somewhere. At tho ..time of tho occurrence a liglit noi'tli-\vcstorly Tjreezo was blowing. • There is little ikmut that the yellow substance referred to is pollen of some kind, most probably that of the wattle, which is in full bloom at the present time. A few days ago, in New Plymouth, it was thought that there had been a fall of sulphur dust, ,bis on examination it proved to be wattlo pollen. Professor Easterfield states that in the early spring the Canadian lakes arc sometimes almost covered with yellow pollen from tho various trees.