LATER PARTICULARS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 164, 14 January 1896, Page 2

LATER PARTICULARS.

THE HEAT WAVE CONTINUES. I TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE. GREAT DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY BY FIRES. IMMENSE RUN ON WATER. STOCK DYING BY HUNDREDS. Sydney, This Day. Another hot morning, and no signs of change. During the southerly wind last uiyht tliere were several capsizes in the harbour. One child was drowned. Further de.-vths from sunstroke are — One man named McCluskie, at Jeralderie ; Higgins, solicitor, at Wentworth ; a girl named Harrington, at Mount Hope ; two men at Wilcannia, where 119 was registered ; eight infants at Goulburn ; several at Penrith, and a child at Lawson. Devastating bush fires in all parts of the colony are causing tremeudous wholesale destruction to crops. Fruit trees are withered by the heat, and the crops are ruined. Stock are dying in large numbers. There was an immense run on water in the city yesterday, the quantity used being nineteen and a half million gallons, which is the highest consumption ever recorded. Ice companies and soft-drink vendors are doing an unprecedented trade. Adelaide, This Day. For over a week the heat has been most oppressive, and registered up to 107*3 in the city, and as high as 117 in the Northern districts. General rain began to fall last bight. Melbourne, This Day. After intense heat, the thermometer registering up to 100 in the city, heavy general rain set in and fell all yesterday.