500 JpricnUural Gazette of N.S.W. [Jhup 2. 1008. 



Australia, as als > in New SouMi Wal.s and |inits of Queensland. The 

 largest amounts in oui' State \v(M-e recorded on tlie Soutli (Jcas' and tal'ln- 

 lands, altliouiili iijood fall- nceurreil in other fiarts. I>at' man's B •}' had r).'V2 

 points, Ulladulla 437, Moruya 405, AraUien ;;0!), I'.^-a l'Il'. P.ciidx.ka -J.'J.S, 

 atul many otheis approached or exceeded 100 jioints. Tli" htavii-st in ilu^ 

 rnt't ri)]K)litan area were — Tmramnrra L'SO, (ilebe Point i! 1 1. l!i\ it\ iew 177, 

 and Sydney 150 points. 



T)ui-ing the follnwinj: forty-eiglit hours, a ijreat cliang > occui-red in pressure 

 disti'ibutiiiii ; the barometeis in Tasmania h^ul suH'erecl a fall of between 

 one-half and three-quartei's of an inch, and the centre cf a lui^li pressure 

 appeared in the soutli-we'^t corner of ihi- cijiitinent. The rain area had 

 contracted consideraMv in the sevnral States, a tlinn^li some <;-nod falls were 

 recordeil ovcv the eastern districts of New South Wales. Paniliula had 

 194 points, Casino 1G5, Byron Bay, 150, Yetman 15:!, Uralla 1 4S, WOlion- 

 gon<f 144, Cl•ookha^■(Ml 111, lMullumhind)y 1 -{O, and Clarence Heads 1 l'O 

 points : the remaining amounts ranged fi'oin '■'> to slightly over 101) ])oints-. 



Between the 21st and 24th, thf^ weather of the main jx'ition of the 

 continent was conti'oUed by the anticvclone which had gradu;dly increased 

 in enei'gy until the 2."5i'd and 24th, when the value of its central isnliar 

 reached 30 5 inches, between Eucla and Adelaide. Some further light to 

 heavy rainfall was reported from coastal and tableland districts of New 

 Soutli Wales, Camden Haven with 203, anfl Port Stephens with 110 points 

 being the heaviest. 



Temperature for the most jiai't was cool, the highest duiinLT the week ended 

 the 24th being 86 degrees at Moree, and tlie lowest 21 degrees at Kiandra. 



On the 25th, a high ])ressure covered the southern half of Australia, with 

 its rentie — 30 5 inches — running along the seat>oard from Albany to Cape 

 Borda. The northern districts of the continent were under low pressure 

 control, and a slight monsoonal depression was shown over eastern Queens- 

 land. Congested isobars along parts of the western and southern coast-line 

 were responsilde for local strong winds and rough seas. Light to heavy 

 rainfall was reported from various districts of West Australia, and from 

 scattered places on the coast of the eastern States. 



AVitliin the next forty-eight hours, the ciMitre of the high pressure 

 contracted to about Adelaide and Kobe, and the main bmly of it h kI 

 whe led north-eastward displacing the depression from Central to Noithern 

 (^)ueenslind ; but the dis'url)ance over North-western Australia intensified 

 its central readings, having diminished by lu'arly two-tenths inch. At 

 9 H.m. on Monday, fine weather ruled over the greater part of the e^istei'n 

 half of .Australia, with frosts at p'aces on the highlands, and in the S luth 

 Coast disti'ict of our State. But prior t'lat, on the 25tli and 2Gtli— rainfall 

 occurred almost generally along the coast of New South Wales, and at a 

 few scattered stations in the north-eastern (juadiant. The heaviest falls 

 were — 195 ji lints at Byron Bav, 1 10 at Biymond Tenace, 137 at Newc^istle, 

 and 1 1 2 at Poi't Stephens. Some light rain was also registered along the 

 coast of Qn(^(>nsland. Yerv heavy fidls, destructive winds, and rough seas. 



