Owing to the floods the rivers have been so high that boating has been impossible. The Thames river season has, up to the present, been disastrous." Although it was sunny on Bank Holiday, the current was far too strong and the river far too high for boating. There were one or two who ventured out, and there have been one or two inquests. The high winds all round the coast have prevented boating Jat sca and reduced bathing to very small proportions. For the most part the holiday and health rexortx fare having very little sun, and on Tuesday, out of 59 places from which records were available only one—Lerwick—was spared rai In other words, we are having very the same summer at present as in 1921.
Yet, fortunately, visitors are not grumbling. They do not expect 2 tropical climate in this northern island, and they have experienced liar bad weather in sunni lands themselves. "It rained for 20 days before I left Amierica," said well-known sportsman who has Just arrived in this country. Reports from other parts of the. world agree with our own experience, Of course, the wet weather helps udoer entertainments, but towards end of the yeat we shall begin to seo the serious effects of th present wet weather. Agricultural Shows are having a bad time. All cricket clubs are complaining and transport industries, which rely: on fine weather, are suffering severely. Fortunately, owing the relative absence of Feal thunderstorms, there is little loss of life! and little damage to property.
For one week we have had complete cessation of polities, though members have only seve: days' holiday and Parliament starts again on Monday. There is a great deal of business to be done anil although some people say that there will be a General Election August, when the Government will ge to the country on its Housings Proposals, which are not liked by anybody, owing to their being mer> Juggling with figures. I do not in the least see why they cannot retain office, if they wish, until next year. At all events, the Ministry is not making progress, though 1 would not go as far as asserting that among the unthinking its popularity is diminished.
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