[From our own Correspondent. | After such a long silence on my i&~^ it is with almost a straggle I ogaia tak< u;i my pen. I do not intend to apologize for bo prolonged an ab?euce of my usual "n^e.'." because I feel sura whatever my excuse mitfht bo you will accept id. It is, however, difficult to start writing a regular iettei (euoli as mine should be) after a somewhat prolonged interval, as one misses tbe thread of the topics he usually has to write about. However, to make Bure, "let's talk abont the. weather."

This is generally a safe topio fox either conversation or correspondence — but unfor tunately, as far as Marlborough is concerned, it is apparently a very unsafe subject to deal with. There are some who persist in ot mng that our climate, during the last few years, bainoft changed, but upon what grounds they baas this theory it is impoauble to say. Onr experience so far this year has been that tte drought which set in about the end of laßt year continued until about tea days ago, that during this period feed was reduced to » condition never before known ; hitherto per manent creeks and springs were dried up ; graea seed sown in the autumn in the chance of rain, remained in tbe ground without snow ing up for neariy a oouple of months, and altogether suob. a Beason has, according to the general verdict, never been known iv

the provitioe, yet in the face of this some nay there is not any ohange in the climate, I was introduced to Marlborough when I wns •boat nine years old, and perhaps with bo muny years' experienoa I may be excused foi oontraclioting this at any ra'.e I sc^te ein <. phatically that there ia a deoided ohange io one olimate, and anfoitunately for the worse. Bat wo are certainly a lob of dis,oou tinted creature. It waa but a week or so baok we were growling at the long, onnuuued drought, and now, hl-hough we n<»ve only had rain, mingled wita fog, for a few day*, we »re a;c>aiiy bepianing io grumble at sl> mooh moisture. The condition of our roads aud streets may bare something to do with this grumbling, for they ar. j. 