WEATHER REPORTS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2848, 12 August 1916, Page 12

WEATHER REPORTS

AT'4 P.M. YESTERDAY,

Cape Maria van Diemen.—Not received. Russell—N.W., . light; barometer, 30.15; thermometer, 60. • Cloudy; sea smooth. Mamikau Heads.—W., light; barometer, 30.14; thermometer, 51. Rain; sea Bmooth. Auckland—W.N.W.. breeze; barometer, 30.13; thermometer, 60. Showery.

Tauranga—Not reoeived. East Cape.-N.W., breeze; baxometer, 30.09; thermometer, 59. Oloudy; sea moderate. _ Gisborno.—W., light; barometer, 30.13; thermometer. 58. Fine; sea moderate. Port . Ahuriri.—N.E., light; barometer, 30.06; thermometer, 54. Fair; sea smooth. Oastlepoint.—Not received. Wellington.—N„ breeze; barometer, 30.01; thermometer, 51. Fair. New Plymouth—S.W., light; baxometer, 30.10; thermometer, 54. Fair; sea moderate. - Cape Egmont.—W.N.W., light;,barometer, 30.10; 'thermometer, 56. Cloudy; sea smooth. ■ ■ , Wanganui— N., light; barometer, 30.06; thermometer, 57. Gloomy; sea' smooth. Farewell Spit.—W., light; barometer, 30.04; thermometer. 56. Fine; sea moderate. . , , Capo Foulwind —N„ light; barometer, 30.00; thermometer, 53. sea moderate. Greymouth.—N.W., breeze; barometer, 30.02; thermometer, 48. Overcast; sea considerable swell. Stephen Island—W„ light; barometer, 30.05; thermometer, 49. Showers; sea moderate. Cape Campbell—N., Iresh; barometer, 29.99; thermometer, 53. Fine; sea considerable. Kaikoura — CaJm: barometer, 29.93; thermometer, 55. Fair; sea moderate. Akaroa Lighthouse—N., light; barometer, 29.92; thermometer, 48. Cloudy; sea smooth. _ _ Port Chalmers.—Calm; barometer, 29.85; thermometer, 53. Fair; sea smooth. Nuggets—W., .lightj barometer, 29.87; thermometer, 46. Oloudy;' sea moderate. Bluff.—E., light; barometer, 29.85; thermometer, 48. Oloudy; sea smooth. D. C. BATLS. Meteorological Office, Wellington, August 11, 1916. ,

During the Franco-Prussian War one of the tells in a certain church belfry in an East Lancashire town, without any warning, suddenly foil to the floor undamaged. Exactly three months later, it is asserted, peace was declared in that struggle. The same hell fell without warning during the Boer War, and by a strange coincidence, just three months later, peace was declared 'to this longdrawn conflict. Recently, says the "Leeds Jlerc'ury," the bell cgaiu fell, and now people aro wondering whether the subsequent events will bo the saino as on the two previous occasions.

A mother was accused at Old Street Polico Court, London, ol' assaulting her little boy by burning him with a redhot poker. It was stated that she took a poker, made it red hot, and rubbed it across the boy's thighs. The New Zealand Loan nnd Mercantile Agency Co. will hold a stock sale at Waikanae on Tuesday Tonders for the purchaso of the sto<*> in-trado of the Continental C. ami G. Rubber Coy. Proprietary, ltd., situated at. Auckland and Christchurch, are invited by the Public Trustee up fcH 5 p.m. on. August 24.