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REPORT OF THE 
86'19 inches If reduced to a 30 day month, this makes March, 
84 19 and February, 88*20 inches. It is remarkable that the 
three driest months should have practically the same rainfall, 
as well as the three wettest. 
Floods of eight feet or above occurred once in January, four 
times in February (eleven days in all), twice in March, and 
once each in June, October, November and December. Ten feet 
was reached in October. Against these ten floods, we had only 
five in all for the previous three years. 
Mr. Creer continues to post bulletins of the state of the river 
during flood time, giving the heights shewn by the automatic 
recorder. But the far more important subject of adequate 
warnings cannot be efficiently dealt with, until the traces of 
similar recorders further up the river can be had for comparison 
We are able, however, to add a few records from higher up, 
which we must welcome as a beginning of better things. 
The numbers in the column, “visibility,” are obtained by 
observations on the West Hiding Rills, values of 1, 2 and 3 
being assigned according as they are “visible,” “clear,” or 
“very clear.” The total is again very high. The monthly 
totals shew rather curious variations, notably the high value 
28 for August, 20 for May, and the opposite extremes of 0 for 
June and 1 for October. The fact that the hills were seen 
three times in December is remarkable, as they had only been 
recorded twice in the previous eleven years. The earlier 
observations have had to be estimated in part, owing to unusual 
circumstances affecting the opportunities for observation. 
In our 1892 Report, the first flood of 1870 in the table proves 
to be an error, standing really for the February flood of a 
previous year. We hope shortly to give a list of floods for 
most years since 1860, drawn up by the Deputy Town Clerk 
from his records. 
Auroras were reported last year as having been never more 
frequent, yet the total this year, 84, exceeds the number then 
recorded by nine. One or two were of remarkable brilliance, 
notably that upon March 30th. Streamers or arches were 
seen on February 2nd, 23rd, 28th, March 30th and April 28th. 
The monthly distribution was 2, 11, 4, 7, from January to 
April; 4, 2, 2, 2, from September to December. Their “values” 
