AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20586, 8 December 1928, Page 14

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

ACETYLENE TANK EXPLODES. PLUMBER’S SHOP DESTROYED. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) ,' SYDNEY, December 7. An acetylene tank exploded with a terrific roar in the snbnrb of Newtown, destroying a two-storey shop. Pieces of the cylinder were blown through , tffio walls of the adjoining A large stack of timber was blown up, and pieces thrown hundreds .of yards away, t Houses within a radius of a mile were shaken. There was no one on the premises, but many people had narrow escapes. The fire brigade quickly extinguished the fire which broke out The. premises are those of D. Reid and' Sons, plumbers. A SODDEN GALL, COLLAPSE AT A MEETING. , SYDNEY, December 7. Mr Alfred Shackel, a : well-known member of many charitable corn. | ees, when presiding over a meeting of combined Jewish philanthropic societies, had just announced the conclusion of the business by saying; “This finishes our meeting” when He fell back and collapsed in his chair and died. FIGHT BETWEEN NATIVES. ONE CLUBBED TO DEATH. PERTH, December 7. During a fight beween natives at Port George one was killed, being stuck on the head with a club. The other natives concerned in. the fight decamped. AUSTRALIAN WORKERS’ UNION. A DELEGATION TO RUSSIA. * SYDNEY, December 7. (Received Dec. 8, at 1.30 a.m.) The'Australian Workers’ Union contemplate sending a delegation to Russia' " to ascertain the truth about Soviet rule and conditions.” MURDER SUSPECTED. BODY WITH WOUNDS FOUND. MELBOURNE, December 7. (Received Dec. 7, at 10,p.m.) Alfred Allan, who has been missing for some days from the Melton, district, was discovered. in a tent dead with! stab wounds over the heart, a gunshot wound in the body, and other injuries. It is believed that he was murdered, as a gun is missing. Detectives arc investigating the case. PASSING OF DEATH SENTENCE. ' INDIGNATION IN WOY-WOY. SYDNEY, December 7. Over 300 residents of Woy-Woy have signed a petition asking that the death sentence passed on Martin Jacobsen for a capital offence on a girl he reviewed. Public indignation has been aroused over the sentence on-Jacobsen, who was formerly engaged to a girl. She was among the first to sign the petition. Public meetings are being held in the town, and feeling is high. It is said that new evidence would be available if the case wore reopened.