HEAT IN AUSTRALIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1657, 25 January 1906, Page 2

HEAT IN AUSTRALIA.

MELBOURNE HAS HOITEST DAY SINCE 1862. DISASTROUS FIRES RAGING WITH TEN-MILE FRONTAGE. Bg telegraph, Press AGa’n, Copyright Mell oume, Jar. 24. Yesterday was tho fcotteet day in the ci y Biroo 1362, tbo thermometer registering 110* >n the shade. A heat wave has passtd over tbo blßie) ,3, accompanied by disut ous bush fires in every direction. Tbo town of Dayleeford nertowly osped being swept away. Tbo fire is now reging along a frontage of trn miles. It is feared Iho wfcolo country between Dajlesford and Ccßtlemoine is doomed unless the wind abates. Many tboueand peres of grass, ana in some cases cropp, have been destroyed. Shops and bouses on tho outskirts of Daylesford wore buret One ann lost his life endeavoring to I save his effects., I TERRIFIC HEAT IN NEW SOUTH WALES. GREAT DAMAGE BY FIRES. I \ z 7 EXCITING ADVENTURES. ) I 1 By telegraph. Press Ass’n, Copyright | ‘ Received 1.10 a.m., Jan. 24. Sydnoy, Jan. 24. The heat in the country is terrific. A bush fire in the Condoblin district did great damags. ... ■ , TulliDga station lost twenty thousand . acres of graes. . ... A. father and two sons going to the assistance of: neighbours rode for their t lives ahead of a wall of fire for seven * m : les. They fonnd a tank and took refuge in the water for five hours. Two girls, tho eldest thirteen, have been arrested for starting this fite. The i 0 parents have also been arrested for aiding and abetting.