THE HEAT WAVE IN AUSTRALIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9034, 22 January 1908, Page 5

THE HEAT WAVE IN AUSTRALIA.

CABLE NEWS.

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POSTAL DELIVERY ABANDONED. FAMILIES SLEEP ON FOOTPATHS. HARVESTING BY MOONLIGHT. Received January 21, 10 a.m. MELBOURNE, January 21. All the public schools, which where to be re-opened yesterday, remain closed, owing to the heat. From the same cause, the midday postal delivery has been abandoned. On Sunday night a thousand persons slept outside. In the poorer quarters, whole families slept on the footpaths, or in the parks. In the country harvesting has been abandoned in the daytime, and is being carried on by moonlight. A COOL CHANGE. Received January 21, 10.30 a.m. MELBOURNE, January 21. A cool change set in last night. RIOTOUS SCENES. THE ASHBURTON ELECTION. CONSTITUTIONAL CLUB BESIEGED. SUFFRAGETTES ASSAULTED. Received January 21, 7.35 a.m. LONDON, January 20. In connection with the Ashburton election, riotious scenes followed the declaration of the poll at Newton Abbot. A Liberal mob besieged the Constitutional Club for hours and broke every window. They assaulted Mesdames Pankhurst and Martell, who have taken a leading part in the suffragette movement, rolling them in the mud, for working against the Liberals. BRITISH POLITICS. PROBABLE LEGISLATION. Received January 21, 8.40 a.m. LONDON, January 20. The Under-Secretary for the Colonies, Mr Winston Churchill, predicts that the following measures will be introduced during the coming sessionsl9oß, o'd age pensions; 1909, taxation of land values; 1910, curbing of the powers of the House of Lords. WARLIKE PREPARATIONS. WHAT JAPAN IS SAID TO BE DOING. Received January 21, 8.30 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, January 20. St. Petersburg newspapers affirm that Japan is accumulating vast stores preparatory to war. FREETRADE AND PROTECTION. LORD AVEBURY'S OPINION. Received January 21, 9 p.m. LONDON, January 21. Lord Avebury, speaking at Dundee, said that if all the rest of the world became Protectionist, Great Britain would still be wise to remain a Freetrade. country. MINERS' EIGHT HOURS BILL. AN ADVERSE PETITION. Received January 21, 9 p.m. LONDON, January 21. The Glasgow Chamber of Commerce has unanimously decided to petition Parliament against the Miners' Eight Hours Bill, alleging that it will reduce the coal production by 39 millions annually, and increase the working cost to eighteenpence per ton. BRITISH PRIME MINISTER. GREATLY IMPROVED IN HEALTH. Received January 21, 9 p.m. LONDON, January 21. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman has returned to London greatly improved in health.