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MINER OFFICE, 4 p.m._    

THE HEAT WAVE

Effects ia Victoria,  

Suicide at Bendigo

[BY TELEGRAPH]  

.MELBOURNE, Friday.  

Yesterday's heat increased to 108   degrees in the shade by 3 p.m. At

5 o,clock a- storm b?r?t and the and there was

a heavy rainfall, but it did not cool

the atmosphere To-day, it is again exceedingly oppressive, and another storm is brewing.

The heat in the country yesterday was excessive. At Bridgewater and   Donald 112 degrees in the shade was registered ; at Hopetoun, 113 ; at Ru panyup, 114; at Swan Hill, 116; at Bendigo, 110.

At the latter place a young man named Edward Swift, hairdresser, was so overcome by the heat that he was unable to work, and in despair shot himself,in the breast. It is a hopeless

case.

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