HEAT WAVE IN AUSTRALIA.
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.] '/ Melbourne, I>eo 29. The weather is extremely unpica; d and a hot northerly is blowing. The temperature is 103 in the shade. Disastrous bush fires are raging in many districts. Taylor's Westfield estate at Elmore was swept. The woolshed and many sheep, including a number of valuable stud ram?, were destroyed. Great damage has been done in the Macedon State nursery-. Sydney, December 29, Bush fires are general throughout the colony, and several houses and a number of tents were destroyed at Lawson. An immense ‘ area of grass was destroyed between Gundagai and Junee. Shipping was impeded, by the smoke shrouding the coast. A uaefulraia is falling in the city since noon. The Elingamite was delayed by the heavy weather in the Tasman .Sea.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 30 December 1901, Page 4
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132HEAT WAVE IN AUSTRALIA. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 30 December 1901, Page 4
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