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for every 60 miles is 0°06 or 0:07; but here we seldom 
have anything of the sort. In the “ Dandenong” storm 
there was a gradient, but there was nothing like circular 
motion in = Re Pane in sion the south-west coast, followed up 
t, cd 
the Murr the mountains to Bathurst, and reache 
Sydney by th santiel see of =p atmosphere. able to 
could not have been a cyclone. It is very revident to me that the 
bulk of our south-westerly storms come on in that wa 
more important question which Mr. Smith raises is that of the 
easterly gales; and here I confess myself at a loss. I have 
Nadiad thers closely for an twenty years, and I am bet oe 
say that there is no satisfactory warning of them. I know 
there is a certain sensation felt before these gales. 
intense dampness of the atmosphere; but this often occurred 
and no gale followed. Within the last twelve months I have 
obtained some scraps of information which | show that sometimes 
the south-east gale not “blow home,” as the sailors say. 
That is to say, a heavy sea could be seen off the coast, but it did 
not come right in, and while a aieenuiily Lom was blowing 
d out at sea, the wind here was west. The cause which on, 
in the south easterly gale was sichibhy seiawdcaaace? press 
the interior of the country ; or probably e demand of the 
wind So 
times the iistioris report a foie seaon Aseveik though thewind i = 
light; but I know from the telegrams that the south-eas 
gale i is fagotto: jad lt at the time. If such south-east wide 
I expect to get a good deal more information from the dail 
weather study about the gradients than I have hitherto obtained. 
We seldom or never get a gradient here that represents a south- 
east gale. It is found in England that if a moderate ient 
continues in one direction for some days, the wind blows in that 
direction with considerable force—more so than if the ge i 
had existed for only a short time. I think the number o 
of wind of at all a serious character on this coast are tea com- 
pared with ree _ prevail in New Zealand or the M 
Country. (Applause. 
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