THE RAINFALL.

Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 186, 2 June 1903, Page 5

THE RAINFALL.

—o The following record for the month of May, taken daily at 12.45 by Mr G. S. Huffam, is of public interest : Total Rainfall in inches. May 3 --- 1-47 4 01 7 \2 ... 0.40 13 3." 14 ... ' 0.24 15 °-45 2\ ... ... ... 0.05 26 1.13 27 «-»7 28 ... 1.12 29 ... ... ... 1.62 30 •-• 0.13 31 ... .., ... 0.23 Total 11.29 Rain fell on 13 days during the month, the maximum being on the T3th TEMPERATURE IN THE SHADE.

Curious advts.. signed by prominent people, which appeared in the lnvereargili Times same day : Notice.—As I have bften informed that invitations have been issued to friends in my name to Miss Flemming's marriage, I herewith beg t> notify that such has been done entirely without my knowledge or consent. —Thomas Flemming. Notice. —My wedding with Miss Jessie Flermning arranged for the Bth April, will be a private ceremony. Friends who have received invitations will kindly consider same recalled.—F. F. HORMAN. There should be some cheerful domestic row at the back of that. To the family of Mr W. Williams, of Rissingtoa, probably belongs the )•<■»{• ~»vd for Hawke's Bay for continuous school attendance by member of one family. Mr Williams who is still hale stud heart!, is the father - f twenty children of whom fifteen are now living lie has had children going to school from 1866 to the pre-ent date, two little ones being in regular attendance now. For parents to be represented at school by children for a'period of 37 years without intermission is a record that will take snme beating. Mr Keech, of Kumara, received a Bank of New Zealand note from one signing himself "Conscience," who stated :;the money was compensation for damages }o property. Mr Keech has not the slightest clue to the identity of the sender nor a any knowledge of the property destroyed. -. i

Smart work was done by the ownerjand rider of the horse Haydn on Friday., 1 '.-The jockey weighed in after a race at Wanganui, at five minutes to 2 o'clock, and the horse and his connections caught the train for New Plymouth, where they took boat for Auckland, arriving thereat 10 o'clock on Saturday morning. The nett overdraft of the Masterton Borough Council now stands at 13s rod. The outstanding rates amount to The Girniuerburn correspondent of a Nasebv paper says that not less than 300 sheep have died in the district after dipping. The fault is thought to lie with a dip of faulty composition. A very old resident in the Hawera district, Mr John Minhinnick, died last week, aged eighty three years, sixty two of which were spent in the colony. He was a guide to the British troops during the Maori war. The "Novoe Vreniya" announces without giving any details, that a Russian engineer has discovered a deposit of natur- I al radium on the Russian steppes, near the I Asiatic border. The statement is not con- I firmed, but, if true, it is obviously of great I importance, in'view of the extreme scarcity I of the mysterious mineral, the costliness I of which hampers experiments with it What happened to Jones ? who knows? Perhaps 'twas a cold in his nose, Or may be a cough, which he could'nt shake off, And denied him the joy of repose ; Quite likely he both did endure. Which him to his room did immure. Till a friend said one day, Drive your chills all away With WOODS GREAT PEPPERMINT ■ CURE.

Week ending May i 8 .. Maximum 67 6S Minimum 34 34 15 22 7i 60 30 32 29 6-1 3i