The " Mount Ida Chronicle" has the following :—As evidence of the thorough unreliableness of the climate in this part of the province, we may mention that though on Tuesdav last, at noon, the heat was nearly tropical, there was frost at night sufficiently severe to seriously injure and cut down the potato crop of Messrs Bleach and M'Kenna in the Main Gully. So sudden and extreme a change —from almost tropical heat to Arctic co ld — we have never before experienced. Within the short period of twelve hours the thermometer varied nearly one hundred degrees —standing at noon at between 120 to 130 degrees, at and after midnights at 32 degress Fahrenheit,
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 55, 10 February 1872, Page 4
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112Untitled New Zealand Mail, Issue 55, 10 February 1872, Page 4
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