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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1642, 23 February 1886, Page 2

The Edinburgh correspondent of this Otago Witness, writes under date Dec ; 10 : — As this letter leaves; all Scotland is covered with snow. A ' ■nowstdrm. set in on the N.E. Coast on < December sth and has since beeu general. In the district of Aberdeerishire the roads are blocked up t'q an extent unknown for many years. The absence of ] wind has alone kept the railways from being blocked upi Masses of ic» are already beginning to comedown the Tay Clyde, Tweed, and other rivers. The prognostications of weather-prophets that this. is to be a very severe winter, seem to be in a fair way to be fulfilled. In experiments made with soldiers doing long inarches it was their general testimony that out of the. throe articles', rum.' extract of beef, and 'coffee, extract of beef was the best to march on, coffee came second and rum last; The meat extract had a lasting good effect,' while the rum only made them e'qual to a spurt! ' ' s :- •■