I — ~* j The following are notes of readings 1 taken at the Rangiora High School : — j The weather in April fell into two clearly-marked divisions. Up to April 16 i the weather waß remarkably fine; from ; April 17 it was almost uniformly dull, with rain on nearly every day, and a very ■ small thermometries range. The hottest day was April 5, on which a maximum temperature of 750 was recorded; the coldest day was April 29, on which the maximum temperature was 53*1. In the last fourteen days of the month the tem perature only once exceeded 60, and only three times fell below 50. The coldest sight was that of April 10, during which. a screened thermometer fell to 35-9, while ' an exposed thermometer recorded a tem perature of 29-4— the only frost of the month. The average reading of the maximum thermometer was 610, and that of the minimum thermometer 47*1, the average of the two sets of readings being 54-0. This is the same as the mean of March, but in that month the average maximum temperature was 64-1 and the average minimum temperature 44 0. Owing to the wet weather of the last fortnight the average humidity waß much greater than that of March. The amount at 9.30 a.m. was 75 per cent in March, 89 per cent in April. The du'l .weather also caused a much lower average reading of the solar radiation thermometer— lo4 183 against 121-6 in March. The average cloudiness was also greater. At 9.30 a.m. the sky was ' completely overcast on no less than seven teen days. Tbe average amount of cloud at 9.30 a.m. was 7*37 (out of 10): This has been exceeded only in one month in the 1-ißt two years, v!z., in January last, when the average was 748. Rain ftll on fifteen days, but on two of theee the amount was insignificant, being less than the one tundredth of an inch. The total fall (including that which fell on tbe 30th) was 4*o72in. The heaviest fall was re corded on the morning of the 29tb, viz., l*ol2in. The winds accompanying the rain were almost without exception S.W. or N.E. The rainfall in Aoril in 1889, 1890, 1891 and 1892 was l-374iu, *951in, *960in and ril4in respectively, the average for the five years thus being 1 694in. 