thermometer bad eredually crept up toa After a long dry spell, during which the rather warm point, it came on to rain pretty heavily on the 12th inst., and we had nearly 24 inches of rain in the twenty-four hours. This was very welcome, especially on the mainland, where it was sadly needed for the crops, and it served to wash out the storm-water channels, though it could not touch Mr. Cooper's evil-smelling drains. On the other hand the rain has made it moist and muggy, rather too favourable for the propagation of the plague bacilli, I fear.
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