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Evening Star, Issue 18670, 26 June 1924, Page 12

STOP PRESS ITEMS

AMUNDSEN ABANDONS POLAR FLIGHT. ROME, Juno 24.—Captain Amundsen has abandonedl his ; flight, m>t having sufficient funds to purchase the aeroplanes.—bydney * La We. WORLD FLYEDS, DELHI, June 24.—The American flyers have reached Akyab (Burma).ECL1 DELin, June 25.—Captain Maclaren. has arrived at Rangoon.-Syduey ‘ Suu ’ Cab!o - FEARFUL MUTILATION. , An Association message from Tirnarn slates that Ernest Lomond (thirtyfive) a married man, an engineer at the local brickworks, was pulling oh the belt on the engine in order to stop it at noon to-day, when by some m-ans be was caught in the bolt and twisted round the shall. His bode was fearfully mutilated, and had to be cut from the shafting. MINERS’ STRIKE The strike situation at the Wilson Collieries, llikurangi, is muilßivJ. Fit tv employees are affected. The other mines are working as usual. As ll.e lenini hands ain firemen arc included amongst the stilkeis then; i B a probability of the mine flooding, which would mean at least one weeks work. —Wnangarm message. INJURED IN EIRE. In the Willis street fire (reported on another page) Earnest Ten, aged thirty, jumped from a window when escaping from.the bin mim budding, .md sustained a broken thigh. Ho was removed to bospital.-Welhngton mesSilSo, HAWKE’S BAY RACES June Steeplechase Handicap. 2tm.-fe urdee (9.9) 1, le Maire (9.9) 2. Zeus (9.3) o. Scratched;, Bed Cent, Killard. Several lengths: a nose. simn « stC ! . Ntcklace Handicap. Um.-Good Mark (11.1) 1. Asleep (10.7) 2, Eintn l ean' (.11.1) 3. Al; stal led. A length ; two lengths. 2mm 1/sec. EVEREST DISASTER. [i, \; i \ .lime 23. The I.jU-.* E'c;W desmitelies dote I but ih. native Vmrivrs Taw Mr Mallory and -or imme o, Jane 7 going Mr-ugly towards the summit. They had apparently attained a height, of .2tJ,OOOu mi Hie morning of the Bth. After that there was no .news of hem, though U« other members of the expedition endeavored ky* tid inns Maior Norton expresses the opinion that tho w.i o «jy vta.i a u - a simple mountaineering accident, and not to tho jveather*—tflhe limes. LOGAN PARK. Elaborate preparations are being made for the turning of the hr.-.t ,-od at Logan Park, but no l«a elaborate are the preparafions being made, at Josephine’s 29 Octagon, lot the sale ol winter bats at fiwsatly reduce® priests.—--