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UNSHINE AND RAIN
FURTHER
HEAVY
DOWNPOURS. :
appy Pinnaroo Country.
A tiny hoy slipped out of his cot in an t
eastern suburb on Tuesday morning, peeped. s
out nnder the bottom of the Window t-Jind,
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the child many housewives whose was&ing
had been compulsorily deferred from the
previous day, thought that ihey would be
f ble , 10 a good time." * They recwithout
the changeablene®. of the
weather, boon after breakfast the clouds
apdn bef,an in tfce metro U:an c
area> and for nearlv three hgurs ^ rain E
poured steadily. Watertables were soon
flooded, and in numerous instances the footways
and roads -were practically impassable
pedestrians. The creek which winds
^ ^ ^ ^ t ^ t e n k e S ^
ried on its hearing boson- oranges, tins of
all descriptions, and other oeSras which, in
concert with the rushing noise of the
water, made a curious musical medley.
Large areas in {he southern and eastern
nark lands were temporarily converted into
lakes, and for a considerable distance between
Chance's Corner and the Green
Dragon Hotel -water flowed across the
roadway and submerged the tramlines. The
Ton-ens Lake presented a turbulent and
dirty appearanctf, and the . flood waters
roared merrily over the weir on their beadlong
race toward the 6ea.
—Everybody Glad.—
The general character and beneficial
aJlj-m taetraam-and tmms, KvWy^ody
seemed to he delignted, and it was maidfest
that all sections of the -commumtylSared
tne hannv feeiniffs of th^ ^r-ir,^ti
c ^ C T e ^ o n l h ^ d ^
viewed •=HnrHv „ * „ -nam iiutt
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morniIle's
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& A ^ ^ s o t h ^ ^ l t S f " ^ e
aU
the
of a
? ort^eni asriculturaj ^ uSul^ture^iu
areas, where
^ h ^ e & l t ' m ^ h f n ^ ^
„ - ? i™ 311
P
^ JF£?
j Wiucil ™ates a total of 2.18 since
Over the central.districts the
^ p^ a t l 0 T n ^ a^oaged between" 0.25
ana l..o. In the southern parts of Yorke's
^ S ^ . h_. Jin ? "
south-eastern coasts, the showers", have
been only light. The Pinnaroo country
and the inland parts of the sout'heast
country' have been favoured
with additional • splendid downpours.
Keith has registered' 1-25 and Lameroo
1.03. In these .districts the falls
haVC
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^ ^ ^
Every station has received considetablv
more than an inch, and the following
have enjoyed above three inches:—
Pinnaroo, 3.65; Parilla, 3.01; and Lameroo,
4-13. The visitation in the upper portion
of the south-east has been most opportune-,
as the previous rains -were not of -much
value there. Good soaking downpours
aggregating up to 2.00 have now fallen. At
Adelaide to 8.30 a.m. the storm had vielded
a total of 1.85, but heavy steady raian this
morning has added 0.60, thus making approximately
a total ' of 250j \yhjch. has
brought the aggregate this year to" 7.45.
Although this is 2.50 below the six months'
average the quantity to date has exceeded
that for the corresponding period of 'last.
year by-nearly half an inch. It will be
.seen, therefore, that South Australia-has
now had grand agricultural and pastoral
nuns, and given desired spring , precipitations
prospects for the harvest are bv no
means unfavourable. This morning's weather
chart indicates that although the deep monsoonal
cvclone hns lost enei'iy since yfesterday.
it is still located over the whole of
srouth-ea-of-era Australia, a —^ M so . that we njjy ex-pect
further cloudy- and showery wj
in the central State during- the next day
or two, with cold southerly winds.
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