WINTRY WEATHER IN THE SOUTH.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 July 1918, Page 5

WINTRY WEATHER IN THE SOUTH.

HEATO SNOWFALL IN-OBKTKAL ' OTAGO. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, July 23The snowfall throughout Otago was heavy. The Central Otago railway lin& is running from one end to Baßftirly,. and from the other end to Waipiata. The intervening five miles are Mocked, there being four feet of snow in the open roads and fifteen feet in the rarfway ; cuttings. It is still snowing heavily in both,' I places, but it is hoged to re-establish through communication to-night. The Main North Road is impassable for wheel traffic in the Mount Cargill section. In the Clyde district there is as much as -5Wt drift in the gullies. The danger is of a sudden thaw. A THAW SETS IN. Christehurch, Last Night. Fortunately for Christchurch and district generally the fear of frost last night was not realised, and there are now reasonable prospects of the city becoming clear of snow in two or three days. A thaw set in during the night and there has been a good deal of rain to-day. Reports from the country districts regarding the latest situation are more, reassuring. The football match, Otago High School v. Christ's College, had to be abandoned. The college boys, assisted by the City Council's scoops, made valiant attempts to clear the snow off the ground, but the task was soon found to be an impossible one. Most of the city schools have had to be closed. Lake Coleridge electric lines have held without interruption throughout the storm, probably due to the fact that the •snow up country has not been so heavy .as it was a fortnight ago. Advice from Kaikoura states that snow fell heavily over the whole lountry last night. This, on top of the previ- 1 ous heavy fall in the early part of the month, will probably result m serious consequences to a number of pastoralists.

Johnstone's whaling party suffered a heavy loss; their smaller, but faster, oil launch broke away from its moorings and became a total wreck.