GREAT SNOWSTORMS IN BRITAIN.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1994, 1 February 1907, Page 4

GREAT SNOWSTORMS IN BRITAIN.

Christmas of 1900 will bo memorable for the heaviest snowstorms the United Kingdom has experienced in many years. In tho northern counties of England and in Scotland tho snow was accompanied by great gales. There was an average , fail of from lour to six inches, which under heavy gales drifted badly and worked serious hindrance to locomotion .oty.all kinds ancU inconvenience to holidaymakers It showed again next-night, but not so hard, except, in .tho Liver- , pool district, whore a.fierce “blizzard . raged There were many small wrecks along'the coast, but no'serious loss of v ’ life is. reported. The crews'of nearly all the wrecked vessels were rescued by ... lifeboats. Almost all the shipwrecked men had terrible experiences' and were completely exhausted before being brought -to land. The minor inconveniences of the day included the abandoning of hundreds of football and golf matches. The discomfort and the difficulty of getting about, however, did not greatly dampen the ardour of London’s pleasure-seekers. The popularity of the pantomime seems to be on the increase. No less than a dozen theatres in London and its suburbs, headed by a splendid production of “Sinbad the Sailor” at Drury Lane, gave pantomime, and all report,full houses. _