A HOT DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2767, 4 February 1882, Page 3

A HOT DAY.

The following telegram from Adelaide, dated Jan. 19, appears in the Melbourne “Age”.—“Telegrams from various parts of the north indicate great heat yesterday, and to-day again it was generally hot. Fearful dust storms occurred at Moonta yesterday. Fowls and canaries died from the heat. Very serious fires have taken place in the Mount Pleasant district. The town of Mount Pleasant was saved only by a change of wind. Miles of telegraph wire were burnt down, preventing communication. Eastward of Blnmberg several settlers were burnt out completely, saving nothing of consequence, and in some instances barely escaping with their lives. The Acting Commissioner of Police received a telegram tonight from Endonda, stating that a fire was raging in the street at both sides. On the railway line between Mount Mary and Deep Creek, there was a strong hot wind blowing, and the country was full of smoke. It is feared that if the wind does not abate the fires will reach farms and do great damage, To-day a woman named Eliza Brown, 60 years of •ge, died at Goodwood Park from the excessive heat; and another woman, name unknown, died after confinement, from a similar cause. A boy named John England, son of Walter England of Bowden, and a girl named Ethel Holland, eight months old, daughter of W. Holland, carpenter, residing at Edmond street, Norwood, died from the same cause. The passengers on the quarantine station are suffering from the heat, but everything has been done to render their confinement bearable.”