INTENSE HEAT IN AUSTRALIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2093, 20 January 1908, Page 2

INTENSE HEAT IN AUSTRALIA.

THE WORST FOR THIRTY-FIVE YEARS.

SEVERAL DEATHS RECORDED

United Press Association—Copyright!

(Received Jan. 19, 5.4 p.m.) MELBOURNE, Jan. 19

The present spell of heat is the worst for thirty-five years. The discomfort has been intensified by the hot north wind, bringing clouds of lust and smoke from the surrounding bush fires. The houses are too hot for sleep and thousands are sleeping on lawiis -and in gardens and parks >r are camped at the seashore where bathing proceeds throughout the night. Blacksmiths, in the Coverniient workshops, and the employees of ’oiiio private firms have been allowed jo cease work. The doctors are having a busy time with numerous cases of heat apoplexy, several people dropping in the streets vesterday. One Wiver of a brewery cart succumbed. Horses are suffering terribly, and mine have dropped dead. The ico -o-marn'es are unable to. keep pace' with the demand. C'onntrv reports show that the heat 's increasing. Several deaths have ■"'■’Trod from, apoplexy. Great morL, il’iv exists amongst domestic animals, fowls dviner by hundreds.

ADELAIDE, Jan. 19.

The thermometer yesterday touched M 114, for the fourth day in succes'oji. and has exceeded 'the 110 reel'd in the eitv during the fiftv wears i-e official figures have been- kenf. "be majority of people are sleeping •’t of doors.