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regards 24 persons, so that it was necessary to issue only 5
summonses during the quarter, the whole of which were decided
in favour of the Board.
The weather during the quarter was most remarkable, having
been below the average temperature during the first week of
January; nearly 8 degrees above it during the second week;
falling during the third week to nearly 8 degrees below it, and
then for more than a fortnight being extremely warm, sometimes
10, 12, and once or twice nearly 15 degrees above the mean.
Similar variations, but to a smaller amount, occurred throughont
the quarter, so that Mr. Glaisher writes in his report: "during
the whole of the past three months the temperature of the air
has been for a few days together cold, and then for a few days
together warm, and so on alternately; the former or cold periods
have varied from five to nine days, and the warm from seven to
nine days, with one of fifteen days. I have no recollection of
such a succession of hot and cold periods of nearly equal length.''
The average temperature for the quarter was 1½ degrees in
excess of the mean, the daily range less than usual, although
the weather was so very changeable, and the rain fall was in
excess by about 1½ inches. The highest temperature recorded
was 63, and the lowest 21½, affording a range of more than
40 degrees.
I remain Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
JOHN W. TRIPE.
May, 1862.