The long perpetuation of summer heat ame to a rather sudden termination on Tuesday, when rain began to fall in the afternoon, and increasing after dinner, became a tropical downpour of unusual violence later on, drenching those unwary ones who, unprepared for rain, had gone out dining in summer raiment. During the night over 6 inches of rain fell, a thing unprecedented in November in the memory of the oldest residents, Next morning proved wet and windy, and the thermometer had dropped 11 degrees and fell further during Wednesday night, which was again wet and stormy. Sixce then it has continued dull and more or less wet.
During the gale on Wednesday afternoon several boats were driven ashore and two or three fatalities occurred among the Chinese boating population.
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