THE WEATHER.
Mil Log lE, postmaster at telegraphed to Commander Kdwin on Saturday, notifying the extremely low ranging of the barometer, which read at noon 28.74. This was tho lowest reading on record iu this district. Commander Edwin replied : " Thanks for your wire. This is the lowest glass here for 10 years, and I have never known' it so low in the North as today. Every indication of exceptionally bad weather from north-west to west and southwest, with the glass rising."—Heavy rain has fallen since Saturday, and the sky continues lowering and very threatening. The Waikato river has risen considerably since Sunday morning, showing there must have been a heavy rainfall in the Taupo district. Raglan. The B.s. Gairlnch, from Hawera to Auckland, with cattle and sheep, put into here on Friday night, being also short of coal. On Sunday she was still weatherbennd, and one of the passeugers iodo to Frankton and took tho train yesterday for Auckland. The Gairlocli was in danger of being swamped iu crossing the bar, and her live freight were at times all aHoat, five cattle being drowned. Kawhia.The s.s. Rowena left here on Friday for Raglan with a barge in tow. There was no news of her up to the time we went to press last night.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2639, 11 June 1889, Page 2
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214THE WEATHER. Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2639, 11 June 1889, Page 2
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