SNOW AND FLOOD. Invercargill, March 13.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 351, 16 March 1889, Page 5

SNOW AND FLOOD. Invercargill, March 13.

Advices from Lumsden, fifty miles north of luvercargill, repoit sixteen hours rain and a heavy fall of snow. The rivers are in flood, carrying away quantities of grain, while part of the railway has been washed away near Paimoa. It is feared that great damage will bo done to the crops and stock.

Speaking of the high position taken by the manufactures of the Mosgiel Woollen Factory afc the Melbourne Exhibition, a contemporary says : — "To stand at the head of the list" of * First and Special Mention ' in competition with the foremost manufacfurer3 from all parts of the world is nob merely an honour of the highest degree to the Mosjriel Company, bub to the whole colony of New Zealand." Some people say that we are likely to have a web autumn, this opinion being baseJ on the law of averages, we suppose. We notice that Mr E. C. Buckley, of the School of Agriculture, Lincoln, Canterbury, says that the fact of the December and January rainfalls being much below the aveiage leads him to expect heavy rains in the autumn months — March, April, ,and May. However,. experience has shown bha> it is nob sate bo rely upon averages with regard to. rainfall except over a period _pf afc least a few years. - , jr '