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The amount of bright sunshine recorded during the
quarter was 129.4 hours, and was 6'0 hours below the average
amount recorded in the corresponding periods of the ten
years, 1879-88.
Metropolitan Water Supply.
The following particulars are taken from the report to the
Registrar-General on the analysis of the water supplied by
the Metropolitan Water Companies during the several
months of the year 1889 by Professor Frankland, D.C.L.,
LL.D., F.R.S.:—"During the year I have examined and
analysed 120 samples of water supplied by the eight Metropolitan
Water Companies, the Colne Valley Water Company
and the Tottenham Local Board of Health.
"The weather during the past year has, on the whole, been
favourable for the operations of those companies which
derive their supplies from rivers, and as the increased
efficiency of subsidence and filtration observed for several
years past has been fully maintained, the water delivered by
these companies has been, on the average, of even better
quality than that delivered during the year 1888.

* The water supplied to the whole of St. Giles District is from the
mains of the New River Company.