AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22354, 30 August 1934, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

FIERCE ELECTRICAL STORM PEOPLE STUNNED BY LIGHTNING SYDNEY, August 29. Sis persons-were stunned ,by a flash of lightning at Five Dock suburb during a fierce electrical storm. Other* were temporarily blinded, wireless aerials were-tom down,- and fencing and brickwork smashed, .rout of the victims were hurled from their feet, and * little boy was temporarily paralysed. One woman; who was thrown, from her feet, had her.face,-browned,-.as;if burned. FERRY STRIKES A WHALE SYDNEY, August 29. Passengers .were ’flung .from their seats when the Manly ferry steamer Barragoola collided . with a whale opposite the Heads. As the- boat resumed its voyage the whale was seen' heading for the open sea with a large wound in its side. t'V'v. ' THE IiwGASTLE STRIKE SYDNEY, August 29. The strike, at. Lysaght’a,- Newcastle, has extended, tpd■’ now ip'racticaUy all the employees, making a total of 12,000, have ceased, work.. I f.■ : i'• The Minister of Labour and Industry (Mr Dunninghamj ha« intervened and ordered the taking of a, ‘secret ballot to-day on the question of discontinuance Of the stoppage. ' -■ ' ’ STRIKE" TO CONTINUE-. ‘ SYDNEY, August’29/ (Received-August .30, ■ Lysaght’s strike is to continue. ‘ A mass meeting of 1000 men rejected ,the secret ballot proposal and fexpressed- resentment at the ' Minister of-Labour's intervention. ' FATAL FALL FROM WINDOW A RACECOURSE ' DETECTIVE SYDNEY, August 29. (Received August 29,- at.lo p.tn.) A well-known turf, .figure, the. senior detective v for the - Australian / Jockey Club, Mr Tfiomas Mdlone, Tel); if tom' a fourth storey*vwindow.; ;*tv- : the. A.J.C. offices to-day andwas filled;; There was no ey.e*witneas. :dt is stated*tfi«r.£e^Wat * receißl£**dn ■ ■illhealth. Mr Malone conversing with ..A.if.p.. officials, a..iew minutes before and was ; tp: ’attend *tbe Kensington mid-week races ’ when a crash was heard outside; Mr Malone’s body having fallen on , the iron roof of an outbuilding from a height of 40, feet. He suffered terrible injuries, death being instantaneous. ' THE NEW GERMAN CONSUL SYDNEY. August* 29. (Received August 30, at 0.15 a.m.) ’ Dr W. Hellenthal, the new -German Consul in Sydney, arrived by the finer Orousay to-day. He is a distinguished lawyer, soldier and airman, and-fought with the German Air Porte . on: the Eastern and Western Fronts during the war.