Original Correspondence. To the Editor of the New Zealander.

New Zealander, Volume 6, Issue 486, 11 December 1850, Page 3

Original Correspondence. To the Editor of the New Zealander.

Sir.— On my arrival in this colony I was so much stiuck with the very contratlictoiy accounts winch were given me of the c'imate of the country round Auckland that I resolved to keep a regulat rccoid of the weather, in order that I might be able to send a really correct account of it to my friends. I have therefore noted down regularly the state of tho weather evciy day fiom the Ist December, 1849, and I send you a copy of the results, thinking that it may be interesting to some of your readers. Your readeis in this colony are of .course aware of the fact, which it is yet proper to mention for the sake of others, that last winter is, I believe, universally allowed to have been a much better one than the average of winteis heie. I ralherjsuppose, however, that the spring, or at leastlpart of it, has been fully as wet and stormy as the average,

Of frosty mornings theie were— in June, 5 ; July, 5 ; August, 3; and September, 6; in all 19. I have set down as wet days all those on which rain fell continu* ously dining the greater part of the day. I have set down as showery, every day in which I observed rain to fall in any less degree; on some of these a very consi*derable quantity of rain fell at intervals, accompanied by heavy squalls, many of them, however, were fine diys, with only slight bhowers In the mornings or. evenings. R, B. Lusk, December 9, 1850.

849 —December . . 850— Januaiy Tebruaiy .. March . . . . Apvil Mny > June July August .... September.. October... .. November , . Clear Clay. Clear, Showdays, dajs. windy, cry. 22 1 0 5 22 1 0 7 20 3 1 4 16 2 2 10 18 2 0 8 14 5 0 10 12 3 1 9 1G 4 0 10 12 2 3 12 15 1 1 11 9 5 2 15 13 2 1 8 wet days. 3 1 0 1 2 2 5 1 2 2 0 6 IS9 31 II 109 25