The drought [27 March 1902]

[Editor: This brief article, regarding drought conditions, was published in The Brisbane Courier (Brisbane, Qld.), 27 March 1902.]

The drought.

Our Cunnamulla correspondent telegraphed yesterday that the weather there was atrocious.

The shade temperature was over 100deg., and fierce, blustering, blinding storms of wind and sand dust, which parched everything, were being experienced.

The inhabitants now anticipate the beginning of the end in the South-west.

Source:
The Brisbane Courier (Brisbane, Qld.), 27 March 1902, p. 4

Also published in:
The Darling Downs Gazette (Toowoomba, Qld.), 27 March 1902, p. 3 (entitled “The great drought: The beginning of the end”)
The Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald and General Advertiser (Ipswich, Qld.), 27 March 1902, p. 10 (entitled “Beginning of the end in the south-west”)

Editor’s notes:
deg. = (abbreviation) degrees

sand dust = dust (fine or small particles) of sand (the term “sand dust” is relatively rare; several dictionaries were checked for this term, but it was only found in the Oxford English Dictionary)
See: 1) “A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (vol. viii, S-SH), Oxford: Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press), 1914, p. 87, column 2, entry “Sand” (section 10)
2) “The Oxford English Dictionary (vol. iii, D-E), Oxford: Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press), 1933, p. 726, column 3, entry “Dust” (section 1b)
3) “sand dust: noun”, Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford University Press)
4) “term “sand dust””, IAC list (on Trove)

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