HEAT WAVE.
TOO HOT TO WORK. BUSH FIRES C AUSE WIDESPREAD DESTRUCTION. (Received 3. 0 a.mA Adelaide. Feb. 3. The heat ware continue*. Tie thermometer is 113 in the city. Confectioners have closed the: shops as it is too het to work. Bush fires on the hills are th< worst for twenty years. Tic re i widespread destruction. A numbe of residences and many orchard: have been destroyer!. Beauty spot have also been devastated. HIGH THERMOMETER RECORDS. (Received 3, 9 a.m.) Sydney. Feb. 3. The long spell of exceptionally I ■>' dry weather has not broken. Manx very high thermometers are record ed in the interior. BUSH FIRES IN TASMANIA (Received 3. ft a.m.) Launceston. F<’>. y. The thermometer is I’H. the 1. ..r--est since 1906. The country is enveloped in ■_l<-n*< smoke and hush tires are burning i: j all directions. VICTORIA SUFFERS (R ecei ve d 3. 9 a.m. l Melb< lurne. Eel). 3, The heat is intense < n the st • shbre ami over miles of-land. Indents are sleeping out of <L- rs. Destructive fires have < <! < ’ the Dandenong ranges and in i tme districts. Four’ homes were de* t roved nt Sunshine.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 43, 3 February 1912, Page 5
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