Correspondence.

Feilding Star, Issue 123, 22 November 1895, Page 2

Correspondence.

THE WEATHER. TO THE EDITOII OF THE STAB. Sir, — Since writing my letter of the 19th instant, which you published this evening, it has occurred to me that instead of taking the rainfall and number of rainy days from 1883 to 1895, for each year, we should be better able to account for the unusual inclemency of the present season by taking them for ( the months of September, October, and November in each of those years, and it turns oat that my surmise is correct, as is clearly shown by tbe underwritten table from which it appears that considerably more rain has fallen during the last three months of the present year than fell during the same months since 1887, and that there have been considerably more rainy days during the same I time since 1893. This I think together i with the reasons I before stated, coupled ! with an iDDumberable number of cold winds and heavy gales, will go a long way towards accounting for the exceedingly unpleasant weather we arc all grumbing at. The table above referred to-

Before concluding this letter I wish to say in case " Parva Sol " should take offence at my hayi»g suggested that he might have chosen a more suitable name, I bad uo intention whatever of finding fault with his Latin. Although I don't profess to be much of a grammarian, much less of a Latin scholar, I construed the meaning of bi.s signature to be " a little feminine sun " (parya being the feminine gender of parvus), whereas parve would, in my opinion, literally mean " not much sunshine." I am, etc., SAML. GOODBEHERE. Feildiug, 21st November, 1895.

Date Rainfall in No. of wet inches days 1883 11-11 48 IKS 4 17-11 55 1885 681 48 1886 13-55 48 1887 1721 53 1888 7-45 46 18N9 9 01 39 1890 842 54 IK9I 7 66 40 1892 8 32 45 1893 10-18 55 1894 517 38 1895 to 21 Nov. 10-68 47