OCTOBER, 1869.
Genebalj Rpmabks. — A very fine, dry month, but cold. The weather was brilliantly fine and warm from the 3rd to the ilth, when a strong magnetic polar current set in, and speedily reduced the temperature far below the average. The direction was generally Sr little to the east of S. This S.S.E. polar current continued during seven days, accompanied on the 15th by hail-squalls, the only instance on record in 10 years of hail from that quarter. On the 17th, the wind had veered to due E., and fallen light, when a very severe frost occurred, the thermometer sinking to 16 deg. on the grass, causing serious injury to vegetation, especially to the fruit blossoms and early potatoes — even the native shrubs and the fern and tutu were cut down to the ground by this unusual
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Southland Times, Issue 1170, 24 November 1869, Page 4
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138OCTOBER, 1869. Southland Times, Issue 1170, 24 November 1869, Page 4
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