Severe Winter Weather.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 26, 30 July 1895, Page 2

Severe Winter Weather.

There was a heavy fall of snow in this district last night and this morning, the whole country being covered. • - The boys had a gay time snowballing. Ifc ia the heaviest snowfall experienced since the foundation of the settlement. The snow was so deep at Waituna that Mr Robinson could not drive his mail coach up Waituna hill this morning and had to ride to Feilding with the mails.

PER PRESS ASSOCIATION) Inveecargill, July 29. Snow has been falling since yc«ter« day. Duxedin, July 29. The weather is bitterly cold and snowing to-day. Timaru. July 29. Six inches of snow fell at Fairlie yesterday and last night. There is a wintry wind here to day, and the snow clouds are passing at sea. Well man, John Young, and assistant, who got through from Feirlie to Pukaki last week, and back to Fairlie oa Saturday eight, report 2 fe©t of snow between Rurke's Pass and Tekapo, 2£ feet at Tekapo and Balmoral, 3 feet to 3£ feet at Wald's Plain, 2 feet at Fimmonds' Pass, and 1£ feet at Pukaki. As far as the eye can see there is very little bare ground visible. Through the extreme cold, dogs have been frozen, and small birds are dropping off trees. At Homesteads two men got through with great difficulty. Their horses had icicles of five or sis inches long inches long hanging from their nostrils. Christchurch, July 29. The weather to-day is bitterly cold with frequent showers of sleet and snow. The ground to night is covered to a depth of nearly an inch. Bawera, This Day, There was a heavy fall of snow all over the lOUhern fo.ijn of Taianaki last night, varying in deph from 8 or 9 inches at Stratford to two fe: t on the Waimate Plains and one in Hawe'ra. New Pm mouth, This Day. The train came in from Hawtra this morning covered with snow.