WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4788, 14 May 1884, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

This day. Weather Notes,

The following was received from the Museum :—The " Dandenong " gales, to which the storm at present raging in the cast of Australia is compared by the Sydney Obsrver in to-day's telegrams, passed over Australia on the 9th and 10th of September, 1876. It followed a long period of droughty and began with a hard N.W. wind, which lasted several days, and then . changed suddenly on the 9th to the southward. .As the centre of the storm passed in a N.E. direction over Victoria, the great strength of the gale was thus a south wind, which commenced at Portland at 6 a.m. on the 9th and broke over Sydney with a terrific thunderstorm at 6 p.m. on the same day. Ibis depression passed altogether north of New Zealand, bring* ing a heavy easterly gale over Auckland; but no great disturbance affected New Zealand generally until the 22nd, when a depression passed south of the Bluff, with a violent N.W. gale, changing suddenly to the S.W. with'thunder and hailstorms. On this occasion a maximum force of the winds of nearly 700 miles in 24 hours was recorded in Wellington. The storm now being felt in Australia is not yet affecting New Zealand weather, but strong winds prevail, owing to the existence of another depression approaching from the S.W,, the centre of which shows a tendency to pass over the South Island of New Zealand.