The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1887. THE FINEST CLIMATE IN THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Issue 2538, 2 March 1887, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1887. THE FINEST CLIMATE IN THE WORLD.

The New' Zealand climate has bean, reputed to be the tinehfc in the world, and it ill becomes a New Zcalauder to question its supremacy. We are quite prepaid to maintain its leading position; and only regret that even the finest climate in the world is at times a little trying, During tbe past three months the fertile soil of our favoured colony has been about as dry as a bone, and the growth of vegetation has been arrested during a period when, in the interests of both man and beast, it ought to have flourished, Although duriug tbe past month occasional showers have,oooled.the ground, they have failed, to supply it with tho moisture essential to fertility, The extreme summer heat which we have experienced has almost shaken our faith in the finest climate in the world, and in Auckland, where tbe shade temperature lias ranged from day to day at about ninety degrees, people have borne silently but almost despairingly the extreme penalty of the finest climate in the world. Weather is said to mo ve in cycles, and .w.e may venture to hope ! that the present sultry pycta is ,completed. Before it set in we passed through a cold, wet cycle, and prior to; that a seasonable one, in. which there'was a fair proportion of sun and rain, of heat and cold, in due rotation,

We may therefore venture to hope that the periods of extrerao weather have become exhausted,, and that we shall again be able toboastof our magnificent climate. At the present time settlers on land have suffered severely'from the prolonged drought, the value of stock having receded considerably from this cause.- Small cultivators who depend upon the produce of their gardens and orchards, have also had a hard struggle thi3;season, and we may congratulate ourselves that the..fall' of the..year, .when- wet weather almost invariably •sets in,, is.now at hand to. revive exhausted vegetation, and to put now life into the breasts of those who depend upon; agriculture, p&Bturage, and | gardening for their subsistence: During the past three montliß Captain Edwin has had an easy time of it, but we may now look forward to his resuming duty and again, in his old form, wiring rain from all parts of the compass.'