AUSTRALIAN HEAT WAVE.
MANY BUSH FIRES. .': By.Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. •".';".':'. '' \ Sydney,; January '2;. '.'., i \" The heat wave which set in on Thursday ' continues unabated,'and:'the" festivities : of.'. • the holiday season have been pursued < ; with considerable discomfort. ',: -*~'":•■ %.»»/■ The thermometer hae registered ' ; 118deg.' ; -. at Menindie, west of the Darling River. '"' A point higher was recorded at Murwill- . umbah, on the Tweed River, 407 railei. . north of Sydney. -, .'; ,--.-'--/- 7-""?-*: , { _• Murwillumbah is surrounded ; by. bush "-'.\; fires, which are also raging in': many other.- '*'■ M districts. - . ! "'.'.""" FIRE PUT OUT WITH MILK. Melbourne, January 2. A bush fire had just started near Shep-'V parton yesterday, when a man returning ' from a dairy factory passed by, and he put to such good use a. number of tins of ■„ sour milk that he succeeded .in", extinguish-,..'/ ing the flames, a.nd averted what may "" have been a disastrous outbreak. .--•.•• -
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 13949, 4 January 1909, Page 5
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137AUSTRALIAN HEAT WAVE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 13949, 4 January 1909, Page 5
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