SECOND EDITION Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1876.] SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1894. METEOROLOGICAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4695, 14 April 1894, Page 2

SECOND EDITION Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1876.] SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1894. METEOROLOGICAL.

The Now Zealand climate Is esteemed by some as tfao best all round climate in the Universe, and within Now we in Masti-non possess one of tlie iiest exaniples of that superior all round climate, but th(3 opecial cjjnrij} of our \yeather surely must be iis Infinite vgrieiy. Fflf a perfect twenty four hours this fiojopy cannot vie with a long sweet.summer day in the Mother (Jountry, but for a good aggregate of tough and ready tine weather it is not to be surpassed- We have been looking through (lie rainfull returns (or the year 1893, and have been struck, even In ilie matter of m.Qj'gturs, with the 11 variety Bhow" wo enjoy ip different parts of this Colony. If a friendly g}ob§ potter comes to visit us, who likes rain, be can Ret it in abundance, on tbe other hand, if his weakness be a dry atmos I'here he can be served promptly with it, dfy as a bono, if he wants rain once a we'eii, tap jj, or even three times he can be apcommodated. If be yearns for a deluge Ijo pan get one, and if Jje flourishes be-t under light showers he can he supplied. In the way of rainfall we have every article in stock from 1 cats and dogs' to sunshiny sprays, Here in Masterton we take our rain on 'an average one day in tbrep, but the people who look down upon us from the top of the R;n)u£aka bave overy other day We a)'fl not "dry like the good people down at Kaikoum,where rain is due but onc.e a week, or'."wet" like they are at" Puysegu'r Point," whero lft solid inches of rain fall in a twelve-montli. We do not It now this spot, but if were interested in the umbrella or mackintosh industry, we should feel disposed to visit it. For light refreshing showers Oamatu, which totals up but 22 inches in the year, seems to be tbe plar, The return for 1898 somewhat shatters pur faith in sanatnriums. We once thought ef Mailing Rolorua, but we find thati last year it niadel 1.7i inches of rain, and if it keeps up this record it is obviotis,ly not the place for outdoor enjoyment. Strangely enough "anotfaor sanatorium at Port Hills, Christchurcn, only turned the scale at 10 inches. Possibly a patient; who cannot recover atEotoruamay be able to piflk up at }?ort hijls and vice vere.a. ,o|jr cfirqgte pivca» wide and somewhat eipbarassing phoi.ee to invalids. On the whole "we hftvo somo faith in the Mastorton climate, with its modest but copious rainfall of 44 inches per annum, although we get the better half of the fall at a time of tkyear when wa don't pray for it. We have only 184 days in the year on which rain falls and on very many of the3D tjie dppnpour is not worth speaking of.' 1/ we travel npp;b we strike at oiiie a "wet patch, at Pahiatua with its 57 iuches'of rain and still more dampness at Wociclville | which totalled up' 62 inches last year. Jn late spot Ibere arc ocoaßional fine dayi, hiij; tlia pionarcJi Pluvius takes charge of 208 but of We bave not to go far south to gel humid, Featherstori accepts, but does not tpet gf ,6} icohfeb, and up the hill there's a glorious pppt [or , on which 104 inches ot rain carcpdoiffn flop in the course of 1693, Taita dries up a little with G5 inohes, and Petone almost smiles with 59, Wellington

prevailing winds did ut liitle less. We cannot say much for the West Coast, jseeing tlmt Gieynonth is sodden with 102 inches In tlio far north where our friend Mr S. Bacon is trying to grow bananas, there is 86 inches, and he ought to do the trick with this, a semitropical sun being iln own in to warm up the water, We cannot fancy that any bipeds, ducks excfpted, can enjoy existence round Mount Egmont, for we notice that. Inglewood drank in or swam in 154 inches of rain last year, The mor»l is obvious, viz: that in whatever direction we wander from Masterton we get either too much lain or too little, und that if our Borough Council would only keep the town cleanandsweet, Masierton would become this sanatorium of the colony,