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Penang. 
27. During the first five months of the year, the fall was 
unusually small, but was compensated however by heavy 
falls during the last seven months consecutively. The mean 
for the year is 110.81, as compared with 86.02 in 1884, 
shewing an increase of 24 79 inches. 
28. The greatest fall in 24 hours was recorded on 12th 
July, viz., 6.93 inches at Government Hill. At this station 
there was also recorded the greatest fall in any one month, 
viz., 28.89 inches in September. The smallest fall on record 
is 0.27 inches, which was in January, and at the Central 
Prison. 
Province Wellesley. 
29, The rainfall at this Settlement during 1885 was 
heavy, 106.29 inches was the mean, acvainst 80. 60 in the 
previous year. The greatest fall in 24 hours was 5.60 inches 
at Bertam on 14th October. The driest month was January. 
No rain was registered at Butterworth and Pulau Jerajah, 
and the mean fall recorded at the other stations for the 
month was only 1.62 inches. October seems to have been 
the wettest month, the record shewing 21.03 inches. 
Malacca. 
30. The mean fall registered at the three stations where 
the returns were complete was 67.71 inches, being 10 inches 
less than that for 1884. The driest month was Mebruary, 
when the mean fall was 0.75 inches only. The maximum 
fall was in October; 14.32 inches of rain fell at Kandane. 
31. The ereatest fallin 24 hours was 4.29 inches on the 
15th October at the same station. 
32. ‘The following brief notes on the general state of the 
weather in the Straits will be found interestine. 
33. ‘The month of January was dry, more so in Province. 
Wellesley. In Singapore, although the days were hot and 
dry, the nights were cool and refreshing. Those in January 
were the coldest on record. From the 9th to the 14th in 
particular, the minimum temperature fell from 69.9°F. to 
63.9°F., with a corresponding fall of the grass radiation 
thermometer, the lowest recorded on the latter instrument 
being 59.9°F. on the 14th January. This low temperature 
was also observed on reliable independent testimony at Johor, 
