AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
LP"Jtt UNITED PBES3 ASSOCIATION^' Sydney, December 26. Tremendous beat was experienced throughout the country to-day; At Wilcannia, 583 miles N.W. of Sydney, the thermometer registered 170 (?) in tbe shade. The great heat is proving disastrous to the crops and grass. Basil fires are raging in some parts. There is a water famino at Bourke, and the Government have made arrangements with the South Australian authorities to despatch water trains immediately. December 27. The Springfield Station at Jeraldie was completely burned down, the result of a bush fire. One of the station hands was burnt to death. The fires are still burning and doing extensive damage.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 77, 29 December 1891, Page 2
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