METEOROLOGICAL

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9792, 16 October 1917, Page 10

METEOROLOGICAL

REPORTS AT 4 P.M. YESTERDAY. Cape Maria Van K«n«-N<* recrfwd. Russell—Wind, S.E., fresh; bar., 30.26, therm... 65; cloudy; sea rough. Manukau Heads-Wmd. N.. I'ght bar., 30.30; therm., 62; cloudy: soa. —Wind, N.E., breeae; bar., »>«■ >«.»•»■ therm. 63; fair; sea, smooth. Eteb Cape—Wind, S., breeze; bar., 80.33; therm., 65; cloudy: sea, moderGOdborne—Wind, E., light; bar., 30.33; thorn.. 60; fine,; sea, 'smooth. Port Ahuriri —Wind, E., light; bar., 80.23: therm., 60; fine: sea. rough. Castlepoint—Wind, N. 8., breeze; bar., 80.37: therm.. 60: cloudy; sea, increasing. Wellington—'Wind, N., breeze; bar., 80.27; therm... 60; cloudy. Now Plymouth—Wind, N.W., light; bar., 30.32; them., 60r fine; eea smooth. Cape Eginont—W T ind, S., light; bar.. 80,32; therm., 64; fine; sea, smooth. Wanganui—Wind. N.W light; .bar., 00.33; therm., 64; fine; sea, smooth. Farewell Spit—Not received. Cans Foulwind—Wind, S.W., fresh; bar.. 30.35; therm., 60; cloudy; eea, moderate. iG-’royraouth—Wind, S.S.W., light; bar.. 30.33; therm., 64; fine; sea, alight swell. Stephen Island—Wind, W., fresh; bar., 30.33; therm., 53; fine; sea, moderate. Cape Campbell—Wind N., fresh; bar., 30.18; therm., 61; fine; sea, coneidereible. S.E., light; bar., 80.20; therm.. 64; fine; sea. smooth. Abaroa Lighthouse—Wind. N.E., light; bar., 30.18; therm., 30; cloudy; sea, moderate. Port Chalmers—Wind, N. 8., light; bar., 30.14; therm., 55; fair; sea. smooth. Nuggets—Wind, N., light; bar., 30.10; therm 55; fine: sea, moderate. Bluff—Wind, N.W., light; bar., 30.08; therm., 57; fair; Beia, smooth. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER CHART.

m MMARY FOE PAST FORTY-EIGHT HOURS. Hiigli atmospheric pressure has ruled and Jarir weather has been experienced xenerolly, with variable breezes. D. C. BATHS. Meteorological Office, Wellington, October 15th, 1917. (Forecast over Leader.)

Divers in the clear waters of tihe tropical eeas find that fish of different colours, when frightened, do not all dart in the dame direction but that each different kind takes shelter in that portion of the submarine growth nearest to its colour. It cannot be said that the Navy has been given. a largo numiber of V.C.’e during the present war. Of nearly 250 conferred, the senior service, including its branches, has won just over a - score, while before this campaign its total was out ctf over 500. U> safeguard the Londoner and his property, not to mention the country cousin staying in town, an army of over sixteen thousand police superintendents, inspectors, sergeants and constables Is employed. The pay of the "force'' Comes to nearly a million and a holf pounds per anpum. In the bacterial treatment of selwuge at Birmingham! England, some of the contact beds are filled with coal, and it is stated that the effluent was so clear, sparkling and odourless that the men working about the bods drank from it. The flow from these beds was very much better than that from beds filled with other filtering media. A curious needle was in the uosses-sion of Queen Victoria. It was mode at the celebrated needle manufactory at lied ditch, and represents the Trajan column in miniature. Scenes from the Queen’s Ufa are depicted on the needle so finely cut that they are only discernibh through a microscope. Every oyster has a mouth, a heart, a liver, a stomach, besides many curiously devised little intestines, and other necessary organs, such as would be handv to a living, moving, intelligent creature.