Today In New Zealand History

July 26, 2019

By AHNZ

March

16 March: Duchess of Kent died, 1861
AUTUMNAL showers, at short intervals, throughout the greater portion
of the present month, may always be predicted with complete certainty.
The effect upon vegetation, in the heated state of the soil, thus
slightly cooled and moistened by these frequent showers, is almost
instantaneous, rapidly exciting a second spring-like growth, and even
a second profusion of blossoms upon many sorts of flowering plants
which had alreadly bloomed at an earlier period of the year.

Ref. Southern Provinces Almanac, 1868

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