Observations.—The weather this month has presented several very noticeable features. Near the beginning of the month there fell by much the largest quantity of rain that we have yet noticed in this country within the same short period of time. At 9 o'clock p.m. on the 3d the rain began, and at 8§ a.m. on the oth, that is, in 36 hours, the rain gauge measured out 4.15 inches ; and at the same hour on the 6ih, that is, in 60 hours, the quantity amounted to 5.03 inches. The brooks and rivulets in consequence were all over their banks, washing in many places the growing crops; but we have not heard of any serious damage being done. The next unusual feature in the weather of the month is the continued succession of northerly and north-westerly winds from the 9th to the 19th of the month. These winds are uniformly warm winds : hot winds they cannot be called, for they do not raise the temperature so high as to justify that term; and they seldom last above 12 or 24 hours. Coming at this time, after copious rains, they have given a prodigious impulse to the springing of the year. The month on the whole has been highly genial. The crops have a remarkably healthy appearance all through the colony wherever we have happened to see them. (Otago Witness, 11 October 1851)