HEAT IN AUSTRALIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 3120, 20 January 1908, Page 2

HEAT IN AUSTRALIA.

Per Press Association. I Melbourne, January 18. The heat is terrible. The temper,iil ure touched 112 (leg. in the city yesterday. People are prostrated. Twodeaths from lieat apoplexy have occurred. The whole .State is suffering' Cases of apoplexy are reported from all parts, and several have resulted in registered 125deg. death. At Horsham the thermometer Adelaide, January 18. j Tile heat- wave is unabated Thetemperature in the city is llOdeg.

AUSTRALIAN HEAT WAVE. NTENSE DISCOMFORT IN VICTORS HEAT, SMOKE, AND DUST. HEAVY AIORTALITY. Received 19th, 5.4 p.m Melbourne, January IBThe present s|>ell of heat is tni worst for 25 years. 'The discomfort •

intensilied by a hot north wind, bring-, ing clouds of dust and smoke from the' surrounding bush fires. Houses are too hot for sleep. Thousands are sleeping on lawn*, in gardens, and in parks, or arc camped on the ecftshore, where bathing proceeds throughout tiie night. ; Blacksmiths in the Government workj-' shops, and the employees of some private firms have been allowed to cease worky ,

Doctors are having a busy time.' There are numerous cases of heat apoplexy, sevei'al people dropping in itjua streets yesterday. One driver of n brewery cart succumbed.

Horses are suffering terribly. Soma dropped dead. lee companies are unable to keep pace with the demand.

Country reports .show that the heat )« increasing, and that there have been several deaths from apoplexy. | There is great mortality amongst domestic animals, fowls dying in hundreds.

A RECORD FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA Received 10th, 5,4 p.m. t Adelaide, January II), The thermometer yesterday touched 114. For the fourth day in succession) it has exceeded 110, a record for the,city during the fifty years in which offlciaF figures have been Jcept. ; The majority of peoplo are sleepinp out of doors. i