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extra telegrams when necessary, an isobaric map is constructed for each day, 
and a general report for each of the above aspects is prepared, and warnings 
are telegraphed to any part of the coast when dangerous winds or heavy 
seas are apprehended. This local weather signalling is still performed as 
efficiently as hitherto by Captain Edwin, R.N., whose services have now 
been transferred’ from the Marine to the Meteorological Department. 
These observations are also in part used as second-class station returns, 
for statistical purposes. 
3. A large number of third-class stations are being established, at which 
Government officials and amateurs will record the rain-fall, temperature, 
wind, and weather changes. 
4. At the second meeting of the Cran, held in Melbourne in April 
last, a system of intercolonial weather exchanges was agreed upon, and 
telegrams are exchanged daily between Sydney and Wellington in a s 
code, the former giving an abstract of the weather, particularly the move- 
ment of storm centres and atmospheric disturbances in Australia, and the 
latter the same for New Zealand. These abstracts are supplied to the 
Press Agencies, and are telegraphed to the morning papers throughout the 
colony. 
The experience of two months has proved that this system will be of 
especial value to New Zealand, as the progress of nearly all storms appears 
to be from west to east, so that after the system has been more fully studied 
ee it will be capable of affording from three to five days’ warning of the © 
2 < eee. as is done in other co: 
approach of marked es disturbances. 
OBSERVATORY. 
The new sidereal clock has been placed in oteibies for some months, and 
the chronograph having now arrived, the work of observation and distribu- 
tion of correct time will be greatly facilitated as soon as the instruments 
have been thoroughly established. 
The time-signals have been given with fair regularity, the transit observa 
tions being taken, as hitherto, by the Ven. Archdeacon Stock, B.A., who 
also personally superintends the setting of the local time-ball on those days 
for which time is notified in the morning paper; signals are also sent oD 
those days to Lyttelton for the purpose of rating the clock which drops the 
time-ball at that port; but the utility and accuracy of the system might be 
greatly increased if it were extended to the other chief ports of the colony, 
and if a direct mechanical control of the local clocks were effected fro from the ee 
