The Weather.

Mt Benger Mail, Volume 17, Issue 858, 2 October 1896, Page 3

The Weather.

DESTRUCTION" Ob' - LAMBS BY TIIE SNOW STORM. The strangely local nature of the weather in this climate was curiously exemplified on Monday last, when although the day was exceedingly fine and warm here with a few oc- i caiional sun showers it was raining heavily down country, and at Miller's. Flat. The contrast was very marked'on the arrival of the coaches, the travellers by the Lawrence coach arriving covered in all the wraps and coats they could command and wet at that, while the , passengers by the northern coach j came in dust laden. The sudden changes to which we are sometimes > subject was also shown on Monday j which was a perfect midsummer's j day, while the following day j was such as might have been j expected in the middle of winter, snow and sleet falling throughout < the day. The snow started about j a.m.- on Tuesday, and kept on I .with steady persistence throughout j the greater part of the day with, it is. feared, great destruction to the young lambs. It will be a few days before the mortality amongst the lambs will be fully known, but we hear "there is considerable loss ou the Teviot, Mea Flat and Mount Benger stations. Ihe fruit gardens we are glad to learn were not badly affected by the snow though they suffered bv the frost last Satniday morning, the apricot crop at Coal Creek sustaining considerable damage. To some of the claims the increased water supply will be welcome such as the Island Block Fxteuded which has been shut down for want of water recently. The greater number of the claims however were in no need of water the supply being quite sufficient before the change in the weather.