THE HEAT WAVE IN AUSTRALIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9033, 21 January 1908, Page 5

THE HEAT WAVE IN AUSTRALIA.

CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association—Hy Electric Telegraph Copyright.

INTENSE HEAT IN NEW SOUTH WALES. Received January 20, 9.40 a.m. SYDNEY, January 20.Intense heat prevails throughout the State. It is especially severe in the interior. At Deniliquin the thermometer registered 115 degrees. VICTORIAN RECORDS. ELEVEN DEATHS FROM EXCESSIVE HEAT. ELEVEN SUICIDES.. Received January 20, 9.42 a.m. MELBOURNE, January 20. The thermometer yesterday stood at 106 degrees, for the fifth day in succession exceeding 100 degrees, and establishing a record. There has been a number of deaths from the excessive heat, eleven reported in the city during the last two days being directly attributed to the heat.

There has been a similar number of suicides during the present month, whereto it is claimed the ho 4 ; weather has largely contributed. The churches yesterday were almost deserted, and the services had to be shortened owing to the heat. The Princess Theatre was closed for the same cause.

No part of the State has escaped. Numbers of places have established records. Swan Hill registered 121 degrees.

ANOTHER ROASTING DAY. SEVERAL MORE DEATHS REPORTED. Received January 27, 2.1 a.m. MELBOURNE, January 20. To-day-was another roasting day. Work generally is to a large extint stopped owing to the heat. Several more deaths are reported. Received January 20, a.m. SYDNEY, January 20. The abnormally hot weather in the Southern States is causing a delay in the telegraphic service?. I GLASGOW UNIVERSITY. CANDIDATES FOR RECTORSHIP. Received January 20, §.30 a m. LONDON, January I9i Lord Curzon (lately Viceroy of India) and the Prime Minister (Sir Henry Campbell-Bannortnan) are candidates for the Lord Rectorship of Glasgow University.' (Lord Curzon was elected Chancellor of Oxford University last year. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannermau is a graduate pf Glasgow University). LABOUR CONFERENCE AT HULL. OLD AGE PENSIONS. SHOULD BE THE RIGHT OF EVERYBODY. Received January 20, 8.32 a.m. LONDON, January ID. The conference of representatives of Trade .Union Socialist and Co-op-ei'ative organisations sitting at Hull decided that any old age pension scheme would be unsatisfactory unless it was non-discriminatory and non-contributory, and affirmed the principle of the right of everybody of 65 years of age or those physically unfit before that age, to draw a pension, the money to come from the higher taxation of incomes. A section of the delegates complained that the party were weakening, since the Trade Union Congress fixed the age at sixty years. Mr A. Henderson, Labour M.P., replying, said the present demand was a fairly bold step. It would cost twenty-three millions annually, but when once started, there was no reason why they should not attempt to reduce the age limit. AMERICAN TRUST COMPANIES. DECREASE IN RESOURCES. Received January 20, 8.30 a.m. NEW YORK, January 19. The State Banking Department's report shows a decrease of ,£72,400,000 in the resources of trust companies in New York between August 22nd and December 19th. THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT. ARREST OF RUSSIAN TERRORISTS. Received January 20/ 9.33 p.m. PARIS, January 20. The police here ftave arrested two Russian terrorists, and claim that they have secured documents revealing the whole organisation of the revolutionary movement, and also letters directly affecting the Czar's safety. FRANCE AND BRITAIN. PRIME MINISTERS MEET. Received January 20, 8.32 a.m. LONDON, January 19. The British Premier (Sir H. Camp-bell-Bannerman), during a visit to Paris, had a short interview with M. Clemenccau, French Premier.