. Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute . that it reached New Zealand from the tropical parts of the Pacific Ocean lying to the New Zealand, instead of having had the more common course from the westward. Atthe period referred to an extensive anticyclonic area prevailed over Australia, producinga diiierence of pressure of no less than two inches between there and New Zealand. Thecyclonic disturbance that produced the floods was revolving along the eastern edge of thisarea of high pressure as it did not affect Australia. The translation of a mass of warmand
. Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute . that it reached New Zealand from the tropical parts of the Pacific Ocean lying to the New Zealand, instead of having had the more common course from the westward. Atthe period referred to an extensive anticyclonic area prevailed over Australia, producinga diiierence of pressure of no less than two inches between there and New Zealand. Thecyclonic disturbance that produced the floods was revolving along the eastern edge of thisarea of high pressure as it did not affect Australia. The translation of a mass of warmand moisture-laden tropical air to higher latitudes, and its impingement on the easternflanks of the New Zealand mountains, sufficiently accounts for the extraordinary characterof this flood. Wellington Philosophical Society. 537 Mr. Travers, in reply, thought that it was immaterial to attribute the effects he haddescribed to landslips—^these were an effect, not a cause. The fact was that the rain wasso great that the river channels could not carry the water
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