HEAT IN AUSTRALIA.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5462, 14 January 1896, Page 2

HEAT IN AUSTRALIA.

PHENOMENAL RECORDS. DEATHS FROM SUNSTROKE. [Special to 1 Press Association.! < SYDNEY, Jan. 13.: I Tremendous heat was experienced in the.. city to-day, breaking all records. At 8.80 \ this morning the thermometer reached the | unprecedented height of 958, and increased rapidly; until .it' registered ;10S : 5. ,At -two o'clock horses dropped dead in the streets. A visitor from New Zealand, named Sidney : Mereweather, received a sunstroke in , Hunter Street, and died in the hospital shortly afterwards. Two labourers, named Quinn and Kanes, working in the city, were 'struck, and died" on .xeaehing the hospital Many other cases were admitted for treatment, several of whom are in a critical condition^ At' Bourke the thermometer registered 110 in the shade, and eight deaths are reported, the victims being Mrs COriway, four men named M'Dougall, Daubigriy, Moore and Harkorn, and three children named Johnson, Boon and Mutton. At Broken Hill three deaths from the effects of the heat occurred, viz., Messrs Ayers, Littlejohn and Newlove. A strong southerly wind is coming along the coast, and is expected: to reach Sydney , about midnight. It will mitigate the oppressiveness. - ' The heat wave has been dispelled by a cool southerly breeze which set in to-night. Two. more (Jeaths /from. the eifects of t the' excessive heat have occurred, <a£ .Bqttrke, while one death is .•recorded at Wellington, one at Singleton and four' at Albiiiy, thelatter being young childreni -.