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In comparing the barometric records with those of the previous 
year, we find that the pressure has been somewhat lower. In 
1894 the pressure was over 30 inches on eighty-one days, and 
under 29 inches on eighteen days; whilst during 1895 it was only 
sixty-four times above 30 inches, and twenty-six times below 29 
inches. As in the previous two years, the highest reading was 
30°40 inches, which occurred on 2nd January, and 3rd, 4th, 6th, 
_ and 7th May. The lowest reading was 28-50 inches on the 28th 
March, while in 1894 the lowest was 28°40 on 25th October. 
The points from which winds blew throughout the year were as 
follows :—From the S.W., 96; N.E, 79; W., 77; E, 41;8., 
29; N.W., 29; S.E., 10; and N., 4 days. Excluding the direct 
north and south, the western group shows 192, and the eastern 
130 times. In 1894 the western had 205, against 138 for the 
eastern group. 
Summarising the foregoing notes, the weather of 1895, com- 
pared with that of the preceding year, was, in many respects, of a 
totally divergent character. For example, the early months of 
1894 were characterised by a heavy rainfall, and a comparative 
absence of frost, with many sunless days, whereas, in 1895, the 
frost was intense in January and February, while the rainfall of 
the first seven months was less than tie amount which fell in 
February, 1894. Further, during May there was an entire 
_ absence of frost, and the many days of bright sunshine were in 
_ marked contrast to the conditions experienced in the correspond- 
_ ing month of 1894, when the weather, besides being sunless and 
unsettled, was accompanied by a disastrous frost. The conditions 
_ approaching in similarity were the rains in August, and the heat 
__ in September, followed by stormy unsettled weather in the closing 
_ months of the year. 
_ Apart from the damage done to trees, shrubs, cc., by the 
_ frosts of January and February, the season on the whole was 
- favourable for vegetation. The soil being well pulverised by the 
action of the frost, the tilling and cropping operations were 
accomplished under satisfactory conditions, on account of the 
favourable weather which prevailed when these operations were 
_ performed. Progress in growth, however, was somewhat slow 
