HEAT WAVE.
:. MELBOURNE'S EXPERIENCES./" V BY I'ELKOEArn—rttESS association—copyright. , . Melbourne, January 21. : All the public schools, which were'to bo re-opened yesterday, remain closed, owing to the heat. Owing to tho same causo, 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 lias been abandoned in the daytimo, and is being carried on by moonlight. 1 . ft ■ " A COOL CHANGE. .! Melbourne, Later, i A cool change has set in.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 101, 22 January 1908, Page 7
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90HEAT WAVE. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 101, 22 January 1908, Page 7
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