HIGH TEMPERATURES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 10 January 1929, Page 5

HIGH TEMPERATURES

CHINAMAN RUNS AMOK

SYDNEY, 9th January.

High temperatures ruling throughout the state during the past week reached the peak to-day, the thermometer in Svdney running from 86.79 in the morning to 98.5 at ten o’clock, 101 at eleven, 104 at noon, and 104.7 at one o’clock. During the same period the humidity fell from 54 per cent, to 18. Government Meteorologist Mares blames the wind, which during the forenoon changed from east to northwest, bringing heated air from the interior to strike the city street traveller like a blast from a furnace. A Chinese whose name is unknown, supposedly overcome by heat, ran amok at midday at Milson’s Point ferry wharf rail station. It is stated he attempted to seize a woman by the throat at the foot of an escalator. She eluded him but he reached out and seized the girl, nearly forcing her to the ground, Kvlien Aubrey Bull, a telegraphist, knjocked the Chinaman out with a punch on the jaw. The girl was not seriously hurt but much shaken. The Chinese was arrested. RECORD READING FOR JANUARY The maximum temperature in Sydney to-day was 106.2 at 2.30. p.m., which is the highest reading for the month of January since J. 896, when the record then established was 107.5 on 9th January. TWO DEATHS (Received 10th January, 12.55 p.m.) SYDNEY, Day. Yesterday’s heat was responsible for two deaths, and several persons collapsed.