COMING WEATHER.

Marlborough Express, Volume IV, Issue 197, 2 October 1869, Page 6

COMING WEATHER.

Erom the Nelson Examiner. The above heading is given to a letter from Mr. Saxby, which appeared in the Standard on the 20th of June, and is copied by us below. Mr. Saxby appears to be angry concerning a paragraph which went the round of the New Zealand papers in March last. The hoax was so palpable, that no one was deceived by it, except the very foolish people at Hokitika who made preparations to remove their lodgings to the gaol hill. But what now is of more importance, is the extraordinary high tide which Mr. Saxby tells us we shall experience on the 5 th of next month—in England on the 6th—and concerning which Mr Saxby is doing his best to induce the residents on low parts of the coast to prepare against, as something quite unusual if not beyond all living experience. Mr. Saxby is very earnest on the matter, and the result will be highly interesting, as tending to determine the soundness of the theory on which that gentleman makes meteorological predictions. There is one point, however, in Mr, Saxby’s letter to which we must call attention. Mr. Saxby warns farmers to expect unsettled weather at periods stated by him in the months of July, August, and September. How far these predictions were verified in Great Britain we cannot tell, but they have failed here. From the Bth to the 12th of July—we date from a preceding day to that named by Mr. Saxby, as our time is about twelve hours in advance of Greenwich time—the weather was remarkably fine, the barometer ranging from 29.340 up to 30.140, the wind light, a little rain falling on the Bth. From the 6th to the 11th of August, the weather was equally fine, except on the 6th, when, with the barometer, standing at 29.902, the wind at north, but blowing moderately, there was a rainfall of 2.22 inches. For the remaining “Saxby days” the wind was light, from the S.W. The period of days named by Mr. Saxby in the present month alike belied his prognostications. Excepting on the 6th, when there was a slight shower of rain during the night, the weather throughout was remarkably fine with little or no wind. We have mentioned these facts, not for the purpose of treating lightly Mr. Saxby’s tidal phenomenon promised us on the sth or 6th of next month, but to show that his general predictions as to wea-

ther do not always hold in New Zealand. We confess to feeling a considerable interest in the result of his coming tidal phenomenon, although we must remember that the period of the equinox is always one when tides of unusual height may be expected. We give Mr. Saxby’s letter: — Sir—Some months since you kindly admitted into your respected columns a letter from me as to coming weather in October and November next. My warning has, like a snowball, in rolling so far as the Antipodes, entirely lost its original shape, and, indeed, it ought to be impossible to trace any reasonable connection between it and the absurd paragraph which fas copied below) appears in the H.iwke’s Bay (New Zealand) Herald, of 26th March last, just received by me. Ouo would scarcely have supposed that so ridiculous a hoax could have found its dupes. I should have been silent were it not that a few months since a gentleman of educatiou in England (a man of ability in his profession) wrote to ask me to acquaint him (for a public purpose) as to the exact rise of tide which I expected to occur ou the Gth of October next Need I say that such aa opinion cannot be formed by mortal man with any propriety? I really must ask the great favour of your inserting this letter, for I never assume to predict anything beyond extraordinary atmospheric disturbance; nnd I still declare that 1 have long done so with infallible accuracy. My neighbours iu Kent will remember my firm warnings as to the weather to have been expected on Easter Monday last; nor will the inhabitants of Dover forget them. The unwarrantable use of my name occasionally in New Zealand and Australia is calculated not only to damage me ; but it appears has become a dangerous iuuonvenieuce to the credulous multitude whose very pardonable ignorance of meteorology exposes them to alarm. Allow me, sir, to explain that, when I speak of “destructive inundations” as likely to occur on or about the Gth October next. 1 only allude to extraordinary “high tides,” and such inundations” as may possibly, in some localities, be the result of excessive rains, or storms —in fact, from extreme atmospheric disturbances. I have not even in my lists, made any mention of the 17th March, and never published or sanctioned the publication of any almanacs or books of any kind in Australia, or other foreign places, which have so fraudently borne my name. May I add that, since the weather is acknowledged to have been thus far so unseasonable this summer, it is precisely what I have for months warned Kentish farmers and others, my neighbors, against upon every opportunity, expecting a “ disturbed summer like that of i 860.” Farmers will do well to expect especially unsettled weather about July 9th to 12th, and August 7th to 11th, and September 6th to 10th. They and the public will be able, from watching those periods, to estimate beforehand what credence may be given to my special and earnest warnings against October sth to 7th and November Ist to 3rd.—l have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant, Faversham, June 19. S. M. Saxbt. [Extract from the Hawke’s Bay (New Zealand) Herald, of March 26, 186 “The Coming Deluge. —According to the Evening Star, a number of silly people in Hokitika have made preparations for removing to the gaol hill for safety iu anticipation of a huge tidal wave, which, it is said, Mr. Saxby lias predicted will, on the 17th instant, submerge all Lite Middle Island of New Zealand to within twelve feet of the highest peak of Mount Cook.”

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