THE WEATHER IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 21, 23 February 1878, Page 2

THE WEATHER IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

The following telegrams taken from tno "8. M. Herald" of the 16th January, will- give come idea of the licat being experienced pretty oncrally all ovor Now South Walca at that date : Oowra, Tuesday. Tho weathor during tho past week has bpcu intensely hot and dry. The hermometer has ranged from 103" to Uo id tlii! shado, and up to 152° in (lie mm. he Lachlan Kiver has now almost walfi IWn " Coonamhi.e, Tuesdw. Tlie avcrngo heut during the |a*t fo-ir

or five days uuder the Commeruul Hank vi landah IU 12G C . There is no grass and no water, and no *tock moving. Some of the stations are dried out. 'l'liis is the severest drought ntt known here. FoiIBES, Tuesday. A servant woman at Law's Bristol Arias was sunstruek to-day, and died in about three hours. The weather is insufferably hot. and there is no appearance of a change. Tho intense heat paralyses business to a great extent Walgctt, Tuesday. The heat for the past seven days ranges from 120' to 127' in the shade, the average being 124". The is no appearance of a change. Bbaidwood, Thursday. Some idea may be formed of the fierceness of the rays of the sun to-day, when we state that in the case of a leading horse in a team, which had been unkookod and the trace chains placed over its back, a distinct mark of the chains could be seen on the siuged Jiair when they were straightened for the purpose of hooking him too 'again. The thermometer was lbs" in tin- shade in Araluen during the day, and throughout the night the heat, was hardly bearable. 1 f rain does not fall before long tin.' consequences will be very disastrous.