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a tenth, then sprung up to 30G0 iucjics on the 12th, when the 

 sharp frost occurred. Keeping above 30-00 inches until the 17th, 

 there was a sharp decline to 29-40 inches on the 19th. Rising 

 steadily, but keeping under 30-00 inches, till the 26th, when 

 another sharp depression to 29-25 inches on the 29th, followed by 

 an abrupt rise to 29-90 inches on the 30th and 31st was noted. 



Kain to the amount of 3-50 inches was registered. On one 

 day over an inch fell, on another over half an inch, while on two 

 other days over a quarter inch was recorded. Thei-e were ten 

 dry days. The rainfall for December, 1904, amounted to 3-48, 

 with thirteen dry days. 



Frost was only registered on five days to the amount of 16°, 

 compared with 54° on eleven days in December, 1904. The com- 

 parative absence of hard frost and the open nature of the 

 weather is well shown by the higher average temperatures, the 

 maximum being 45° and the minimum 39°, whereas in the 

 previous December these were 42° and 34° respectively. 



The fresh gi-eenness of grass lands was, as in the end of the 

 previous year, very noticeable, and on the mild days of the latter 

 half of the month birds were singing freely. 



In comparing the records of 1905 with those of previous years, 

 the most outstanding feature is that of the low rainfall, which 

 amounted only to 29-62 inches, fully six inches below the average, 

 and the lowest for fifteen years. August proved the wettest 

 month, with 3-61 inches, though it was closely approached by 

 December, with 3-50 inches. March, with 3-16 inches, and 

 November, with 3-29 inches, were the only other months with a 

 rainfall above three inches. June was the driest month of the 

 year, with only 0-82 inches, and the only month which had less 

 than one inch of rainfall. In 1904 the rainfall was 34-87 inches, 

 and the wettest month was April, with 4-64 inches. March was 

 the driest, with only 1 -43 inches. 



Only on one occasion during the year did the rainfall for 

 twenty-four hours exceed one inch, this occurring on 25th 

 December, when 1-05 inch was registered. There were 160 

 days on which no rain was registered, while in 1904 the number 

 was 163. 



Regarding the temperature, the monthly averages are again 

 high, and the mean for the year is 1° higher than the preceding 



