AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1929, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

A HOT WAVE

(A nsf rnlkin Press Association)

(Received this day at 8 a.in.) SYDNEY, Januarv 31

There was a fierce heat again Utrough<mt New South Wales to-day. The maximum temperature at, Sydney at. one o'clock was one hundred decrees and it. was appreciably hotter inland. Everything is dried up and vegetables are very scarce. Fanners and pastoralists are becoming alarmed owing to a shortage oil fodder water. I lOMES Ti l REATENKT). BY SCRUM FIRMS. \Received this day at 8 a.m.) • SYDNEY, .January Ml. Householders in O’Connell Street. Hurstvilie. a suburb, to-day had an exciLiu*r time. Forty homes were threatened with destruction by lire, which commenced in an adjoining scrub and ignited several verandahs, it travelled with amazing rapidity. 'I lie occupants evacuated every house. Police and firemen, bv herculean cllorts saved them and also removed an invalid pensioner who was bedridden and whose home was totally destroyed. A SORDID TRAGEDY. SYDNEY, January 31. A lodging-house in the slum portion of AVoolloomooloo was the scene of a sordid tragedy to-day. .Mary Roach, about do, died after a drinking bout with John Dickson, 48, who was so unnerved by the suddenness of the woman’s death that he severed the arteries of both arms and bled to death. COLLIERY AFIRE. NEWCASTLE, January 31. A fierce lire is raging at Northumberland Colliery. Sassilern. Damage, estimated at CK),00(). has been done already and the position is becoming more serious hourly. Ihe ventilation shaft and fittings above the ground have been destroyed. Over a hundred tons of coal is ablaze. It is feared the blazing wood falling down the shafts will ignite the coal seams. OBITUARY. SYDNEY, Jan. 31. Obituary—Doctor H. M. Doyle, a member ,of the Legislative Council, aged seventy. FATALLY BURNED. MELBOURNE, Jan. 31. Cedric Swallow, aged 23. who was trapped by Haines when the Aarra Boat Clnh’s sheds were burnt on Monday evening, died as the result of severe burns received.