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Show Hot Xn Australia. The weather in Australia during the antipodean summer has been unusually hot and oppressive. In Adelaide during January the thermometer several times registered over 100 degrees in the shade, and one day it climbed to 107 in the shade and 103 in the sun. In Melbourne the 100 notch has been reached more than once, and the scorching north winds have made the atmosphere exceedingly oppressive. op-pressive. The foregoing figures are from weather observatory readings, and probably prob-ably do not represent by several degrees the temperature of the city streets. Melbourne Letter. |