THE WEATHER.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1957, 14 January 1914, Page 6

THE WEATHER.

SUMMARY AND FORECAST.

Present indications are £or strong norther- , ly to westerly winds generally, , conditions very boisterous in ant! soatliward of Cook Strait, increadug cloudiness generally, and rain is likely to follow in moet parts of tho country. f Tko barometer has a failing tendency, but is very, unsteady in the south. ■ "' Hißh prctpurc has ruled in the north , but there lias been considerable gradient to tho southward and high northerly winds have prevailed in and south of Cook Strait liain has fallen on the West (baft, but very warm and fair to cloudy weather has predominated. D. C. BATES ■ Mcteorolosical Office. Wellington, , ,;. \ January 13, 1914. .-r:'."!... , -' DISTRICT REPORTS. ' (Prom Our Special \ Correspondent^ "''/'. Wanganui, January 13.—Very hot;. Sky obicurcd by smoke. Palmerstoii Korth, January 15.—Hot morning. Haze thickeniag. Peatheroton-, January 13.—Summer's day. Taihape, January 13.—Fine and warm, ■ Greytown, January 13.—Very hot. .■■-. ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT;: , : , "Old Subscriber."—Your complaint has been referred to the Railway Depart-' ment. Mr. R-, M'Villy, Chief Clerk, ; after perusing , your letter, and ■ the/ statement of your complaint, - said:" "If tho facts are as stated, fcho.sta--. tion staff exceeded their doty.-'■« In tho first place, they should have , collected storage charges for tho pack- , : ago but tho fact that the}- did not collect storage at tho time the packago was left would not justify themin opening the parcel, or in any wayinterfering with it. If the writer wifl furnish the Department at AVeUjngton with full details concerning the transaction—the day tho parcel was left, and the day it wa l * taken—a dose investigation will be made into the mutter. Tho Department in all tircumstnnc<M wishes to protect the .Intsv- 1 . cst.i <if its client-, and dcsii-es 'that. bonn-fiile cases of this sort should be; brought promptly hihlpi , notice so Ihat ,, they may be looked into at once.";/ A resident of Now Brighton,- iiceorcl-.. ing to tlio "Lyltelton Times, , ';'has"; .a tliroc-yi'.ir-olil vino under glass, wliiclif although planted in the sand and without any special treatment, has sixty-five hunches of grapes, varying from nino to nineteen inches. >.*"There uro forly-fivo bunches lnoasuriflßiVove'? 1 fourtoou inolies iu lea&tii. ■■■ ; :tuir' : '(