NELSON.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 350, 9 December 1848, Page 3

NELSON.

THj^SC^AT^K-^-'Durij&g the pas.t week a considerable .body of rajn has fallen, anunusual circumstance with us at this somewhat arid season of tire year. To 'the. farmers it must have been productive of great be-" nefit, -.find the only regret we hear from them is, that they were not able to fan see such" a fine growing season, that the r y might have had a wider spring so wfngi— -2\ elson Examiner, N ovember 25.

The i.ate — We^find by the accounts given us by a party of gentlemen returned from the Wairau, that in the Kaiparatihau district the shocks of the late earthquake were very severe, From the White Bluff, extending in an- easterly' direction, there is for several miles' a fissure in the ground, and the high and prec ; pitous banks of some of the' branch rivers have been thrown down. It is reported, also, that on the seaward face of the Bluff a large j>lip has taken place. — Ib. ,

Aurora Australis. — On Monday evening last, from nine to ten o'clock, the sky from SE to SVV was very brilliantly illuminauated by this singular phenomenon. Streamers of light of various colours were shot up to a considerable height from what appeared an illuminated cloud resting on the horizon. We have reason to believe that the occurrence of the aurora, ns well as other brilliant meteors, is very frequent in this latitude ; and we should be glad to receive at any lime the observations of any of our readers who may, witness them, as the subject is of great interest to the scientific wcrld. — Ib., Dec. 2.