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METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS; Taken at Martendale, Southland, New Zealand, in May, 1866; lat., 46deg. 17min. S.; long., . 16Sdeg. 20min. E. Height above sea level, 79ft. ' ' The weather during the month was magnificent, and exhibited a most striking contrast to that we , have endured throughout the last fifteen months. \ As may be seen below, the average height of the ' barometerwasthegreateston record here, 30-105 in., ' and the readings on the.,Bth, 9th and 10th were 1 higher than I have yet registered, ranging ; from 30-45 inches to 30.59 inches. The I barometer stood above 30 inches on seventeen \ days. Curiously enough the air at the same time, ' and indeed throughout the month, was more humid than I have ever known it, the mean degree of moisture being no lesß than -88, and the point of complete saturation reached on as many as thirteen days. This dampnese appeared wholly confined to the lower stratum of the atmosphere, the upper strata being nearly always clear and ' d^-y. Five nights were foggy, and six frosty. , Owing to the humidity of the air the amount of radiation — both terrestrial and sol*r — was smaU. The temperature varied unusually for May. On I one day it rose to 70'ldeg. in the shade, a remark- • able degree of warmth, considering that May • represents the English November. On only one I other occasion in the last eight years has the • temperature been so kigh. The evaporation was the smaUest hitherto recorded. The range of : temperature wliich WC3 32 4deg. on the 15th, was only 6degr. on the foUowirg day. On the 30th the barometer suddenly feU -76 of an inch, that is to say from 3003 inches to 2927 inches, but without being foUowed by any remarkable change of "weather ; it rose again steadily on the 31st The wind was singularly Hght, the mean force was 2'o, and the anemometer, on one occasion showed a movement of only 46 miles in a week. May behig generaUy the wettest and most boisterous month of the year ; such a continuance of calm briUiant weather as we have lately enjoyed is very unusual. On referring to the table below, it wiU , be seen that we have only once had a finer May — that of 1861, when no rain at all fell ; but in the , six other years it has been the wet and stormy month par excellence. Barometer — Mean atmospheric pressure (corrected to standard temperature of 32deg. Fahr., and reduced to sea level), 30105 inches maximum, 30-591 inches on the 9th ; here the highest reading yet registered here ; minimum, 29-274 inches on the 30th. Total range of atmospheric pressure, 131 7 inches. Thermometer — Mean Temperature of the air, 46 - 7deg., wliich is the same as the seven years, 1 average. Highest day temperature, 70 - ldeg. on 14th. Lowest night temperature, 24'4deg. on 18th. Total range of temperature, 45'7deg. Mean daUy range, 19 - ldeg. Hygrometer — Mean degree of atmospheric humidity, '88. Mean temperature of evaporation, 45-ldeg. Dew point, 43.3deg. Elastic force of vapour, 0 - 281 inch. Radiation — Solar, maximum, S7deg. on 14th. Terrestrial minimum, 23'9deg. on 18th. Rainfall — On surface of ground, 2-173 inches. Evaporation — On surface of ground, 0 - 311 inch. Cloud — Mean amount, 5 - 3, (overcast — 10.) Wind — General direction, N.W.; mean force, (0-12)— 20. Anemometer — Greatest movement of air in 24 hours, 247 mUes ; on the 28th (W). Greatest velocity of wind, 25 mUes per hour on 12th (N.W). ■

Op the Liverpool ajtd Logos' and Globe IssiJEiSCE Compant, to the Thirteenth Annual General Meeting of the Proprietore, held pursuant to the previsions of the Deeds of Settlement on the 26th day of February, 1866, in thFt%>mpany's Qffices, Liverpool. At the'eiose of a year winch has proved, more ii;an U3i;„Hy disastrous the Directors have to reThiit the Capital m j the hands of the Proprietors continues as l-^tyear £391,752 0 0 . "-Pist the Fire P*vn7nms have amounted *o £739,332 11 11 •"And tho i 02^' to 633,611 -.2 1 That the.Li;7 Business may be thus summarised — J. hat 1,721 Proposals were made :or Lusux&nc-Sof £959,078 2 4 -;■• i .-Ri Pflw-i'; -Vere issued ■-'''■■_ ■ ■ ... ... £77:>,912 13 4 : '■■' Aj :■'•.■.■.•. . jre declined "' 80,457 0 0 v* 184 proposals have not completed for . . , 93.708 9 0 -hat the New Annual Premiums amounted to £27,010 6 1 that the total Premium Eevenue was £-50,103 6 8 that' the Claims under Policies including the Bonuses thereon were ...£170,039 15 8 that 124 Bonds were granted for the payment of Annuities amounting to £6,184 3 3 lat 34 Annuitants h&vo died to whom £1,551 l7s Sd was annually payable : ir-t the aPiOßnt of the sxisi.- . ___- " in-t ann-iities is £41,364" a.- 4 -*'-x ■Lv--' " ' ...at 7be Tteserv^: for this Depi»r£ruent is increased by the ■ a dii tion of .. . ... "... £118,837 6 6 . an;! -iow amount*; to ... £1,775,058 19 10 .r:,a ' the Eranuh E'atabUsbments and Agencies co::':.ihue to represent the Company efficiently in th eir'severai localities : and to justify the expectations hitherto fulSiled, that by. means of tbeir i.-i„Lential activity., its true interests, and proper ■usualness wiU be further developed and mainlined. That tKe Reserved Surplus Fund stands at tbe same amount a-j last year, viz ... £971,409 12 10 That the Profit and Loss Account exhibits, a Balance of £196.097 0s 2d, and of that sum the Directors propose to distribute in Dividend £156,700 16s Od, or 40 per cent, as last year. The Balance at tbe credit of the Account wUI then be £39,393 4s 2d ; and whUs^the Directors ■ regret tbat the results of the year's "operations ' should be so unfavorable as not to leave unappropriated a larger proportion of this fund, they ( would remind the proprietors that a chief object j lor, which it exists, and to which the Deed of i Setti^merifc prescribes, that it shaU be apphed, is 1 tbe I'q'uUizataon of the Dividends from year to year. VDue-fourth part of the amount thus dis- i posed of has already been paid over, and war- : rants -or ifr 5 remainder, payable on tbe sth pros., will immedi --tely ba prepared. ' That the Invested Funds of the Company will ' then amoun^ to £3,177,616 16a lOd, and wUI 3 sQne:st of—- 'j j Capital „ ; . vi si( £SQl,B5g 0 0 ! Life Reserve , £1,775,058 **19 10 j BescTO JTunfl - '„ ', m\,4M . U 10 , ■- \ : ltodmiM Kwflt „. ' i(-&£_B9o 4> % , v .t)i?^to?s who yctfca at th,_ Meeting, by \ A, kk M? Earfe, Mr Horahy, AW-, Mi? Moon, Mr SftuudMj p< ghsnd, 'a Aig eligible for selection} iitey q&p them- '■ < \cQydingly. ' '" ■ \ '''"Am^*^ -' <

INSTRUMENTS. Barometer — No. 139, by Burrow, ancl 733 by CaseUa. Thermometers — Self-registering, Nos. 513. 540 and 546, by Casella ; Nos. 2215, 2189 and 2033, by Negretti and Zambra ; three by Troughton and Simms ; one by Barrow. Standard thermometers — One by Casella, and one by Negretti and Zambra. Hygrometer — Mason's, or dry-and-wet-bulb, by Troughton and Simms, and Negretti and Zambra. , Rain- guages — Ordnance pattern 10 inch square, . y Y as^^ . livingstone's African pattern, 3 inches m diameter, by a^__, at, 8 . 43j and two Qrdi . nary ram-guages. Evaporatior-juage, by CaseUa. Anemometer — Robinson's, by CaseUa, No. 114. CHARLES ROUS MARTEN, Director of Meteorological Stations. Martendale, Ist June, 1866.

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Southland Times, Volume VI, Issue 506, 2 July 1866, Page 2

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