The hea: w week-end rains resulted in the temporary flooding of several districts, but no great inconvenience was caused in the streets of the central district. Many suburban gardens were flooded, and the playing fields weve partially submerged. Hongkew Park and the Kiangwan Road seem to have been favoured with the greater part of the flood, the Park in particular being swamped out, parts of it resembling an extensive lake. The bear pit was converted into a fair-sized bath, but its occupant showed no signs of being greatly disturbed by "the novelty. The chief sufferers from the downpour were the unfortunate sportsmen who saw a fine week-end programme go by the board and are beginning to wonder if it will be possible to play off postponed games before the end of the season.
Tar Irritation or Sraristios.
Though the season is generally supposed to be abnormally cool as the result of the dull and rainy weather, a glance at the record for last year shows no great disparity in temperature between the two seasons.
In fact, the temperature so far this month has reached a higher figure than was the case in the same period last year, the figures being 89.0 and 66, maximum and minimum, as compared with 82.2 and 65.4 last year. Neither has there been any great difference: in the rainfall, the figures being fairly equal, apart from an exceptionally heavy fall on June 11 last year, when 3.13 inches were recorded. There has been of course nothing to equal that so far this month.
There were 15 rainy days in June last year, and up to Sunday we had experienced the same number this month. During the past week. however, we gained somewhat on 1920.
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