2% Appendix. 
TABLE II.—BAROMETRICAL OBSERVATIONS. — RAINFALL, etc., recorded for 
the year 1872. 
Mean Range Mean Mean Mean 
Place. Barometer of Elastic Force) Degree of Total Amount 
reading for | Barometer | of Vapour Moisture Rainfall. of 
year. for year. for year. for year. Cloud. 
NORTH ISLAND, Inches. Inches. Inches, Sat. =100. Inches. 0 to 10. 
Mongonui* ... | 80:024 1:407 ee ie 45:330 53 
Auckland x 30:024 ; 428 42:096 63 
30:001 1:429 “305 62 67 
Napier 980 1:420 "389 74 23:940 2-0 
Wanganui 30:087 1:520 332 71 1 48 
Wellington 1'629 351 79 50 56 
Means for Nth. ; H i X Í 
RA ! 30-008 | 1-468 361 73 44-012 51 
SOUTH ISLAND. 
Nelson SER roe 1518 369 79 78:610 6'1 
Christchurch ...| 29-915 1702 333 79 19:741 56 
ne kitika +. | 29:944 1:543 “361 85 123210 4:8 
nedin 29-819 1'351 293 76 7:393 5'8 
Queenstown pe oe nd 257 67 28:880 53 
outhland* ... | 29°840 1:631 275 77 40:110 57 
Means for Sth, : : “i > 3 } : 
ate 29:887 | 1549 314 77 . | 52-990 BS 
ze for Nth. : : J ; S 
2 rag at 29:947 | 1508 337 75 48-501 5:3 
* For eleyen months ; returns for December not furnished, 
TABLE IIL. —WıxD for 1872,—Force and Direction. 
Average Number of days it blew from each point. 
Place. Daily 
Velocity 
in mil N.E. E. S.E. 5. S.W. w. N.W. | Calm. 
NORTH ISLAND, 
Mongonui*.. 169 20 39 51 40 12 56 29 82 3t 
Auckland ate 291 43 84 40 16 50 75 20 
Taranaki E o 39 85 0 65 l 87 27 32 0 
Napier — 234 24 | 141 10 24 32 51 38 34 12 
Wanganui ... 256 33 24 6 2 0 80 25-i 46 
Wellington | 204 21 27 & {| lll 5 6 7 i9 2 
SOUTH ISLAND. 
N elson ae So 35 84 12 52 7 67 39 70 0 
Christchurch on 10 90 78 21 15 | 105 1 30 10 
Beale y F a 0 26 1 33 0 22 0 208 76 
Hokitika .. 146 58 64 61 66 5 48 18 39 7 
Dunedin 168 35 29 30 36 28 43 52 15 98 
Queenstown 139 z 14 0 il 1 57 14 | 125 | 142 
Southland® | 191 || 95 | 31 | 28 | 25 | 27 | 2% | 57 | 46 | 0 
* For eleven months ; returns for December not furnished. 
These returns refer to the particular time of observation, and not to the whole 
twenty-four hours, and only show that no direction was recorded for the wind on that 
number of days. 
