RAINFALL AND DISCHARGE OF THE MURRAY RIVER. LXI. 
them of their moisture before the plains are reached. Large 
tracts of these tablelands are without timber, and it is 
more than probable, in view of the experiences of other 
countries, that this may also have an influence on the low 
precipitation. 
OBSERVING STATIONS TYPICAL OF MAXIMUM, MINIMUM, 
AND MEAN RAINFALL. 
| Maximum Minimum Mean 
Rainfall Rainfall Rainfall Number of Rainy Days. 
Year. Station. Station. Station. 
Kiandra. Cooma, Tumut. Kiandra. | Cooma. Tumut. 
1889 90:06 20°55 38°99 140 81 128 
1890 59 09 | 2441 SD 95 126 Neal 
1891 6489 33 35 37 19 138 163 106 
1892 56 99 23 84 32°21 159 114 LOW, 
1893 59 4.2 25°75 33 78 165 20 134 
1894 73 06 22°21 40°93 148 120 120 
1895 labo 11-19 26°26 107 85 100 
1896 | 59 04 he ee No 20.06 128 87 107 
1897 E 68:32 2413 27:44 128 Le 99 
1898 71:14 BA 24:23 106 88 | 98 
1899 56:98 19 50 28 37 3b 92 109 
1900 VAST S 26°26 37°82 143 97 118 
1901 | 63°88 ET 26°44, 124 72 92 
1902 | 47:41 12 97 16 83 114 63 69 
Mean rainfall) 63:49 10S) a3 31:80 all 91 108 
ai OE CRUE 37 16 28 37 16 
or mean | 
It may not be out of place to instance some of the 
vagaries of the season at various observing stations on the 
catchment during the drought year, 1902 :—* 
ADAMINABY—February 7th (Midsummer)—Remarkably heavy 
frost, destroyed all potato crops, and even cut up cabbages 
badly, being the first heavy frost experienced in February 
June (Midwinter)— 
October—Exceedingly dry 
the few showers that fell being almost useless for vegetation; 
during a residence of twenty-five years. 
Weather very warm, like spring. 
this is the first time during an experience of twenty-five years 
here that good and abundant rains have not fallen during 
October ; 1902 has been the driest year known by residents 
of over sixty years standing. 
* Rain and River Observations by H. C. Russeil, 1901-2. 
