STOP PRESS ITEMS

Evening Star, Issue 19328, 14 August 1926, Page 12

STOP PRESS ITEMS

NEW YORK TO BUENOS AYRES. UUH.V '3 Alilts, August 13'.—Bernardo Duggan, who began his flight from New York on May 2-1, arrived here to-day.—A. and N Cable. ' . CHILD HIDDEN IN CHEST OF DRAWERS. A girl of eighteen, employed as a maid at Remuera, Auckland, gave birth to it child, which she hid in a chest of drawers. The discovery was made o.i Thursday, when the mothc- was ordered to hospital. Mr Poynton. S.M , yesterday decided that a post-mortem was necessary. —P.A. telegram.'" GRAND NATIONAL RACES. Styx Hurdlesy 250sovs. Once round and distance.—2 Uloaborg (;).T) 1, 5 Axle (J.O) 2, 1 Wharncliffe (11.5) 3. Scratched; bayonara, 1 level. Halt a length. Time, 2min 58 2-ssee. Svdonhjim Hurdles, oOOsovs. 2m. —G Lucvillent (9.11) 1,2 black Cruiser (10.8) 2, 8 Dubious (10.3). .3. All started. 3min 14 4-oscc, MISHAP TO EXPRESS. T!io Christchurch express reached Tunaru two hours and lortyiive minutes laitrownm to the accident at Windermere, where an axle, of the foremost' carriage broke. The carriage was got hack on to tdie liim w;th ditlhulty, and a -'start, made L r Hinds, the remainder of the i ran; being left on the permanent way. Progress was necessarily slow. Hinds being reached .shortly after 1 o’clock, and the daimmsl "car Icing, left on. the main line, as any attempt to put it mi a 1..,.,, wo’ujd. prnhahlv have resulted in it Raving the track at the points. The engine then returned to pick up the carriage left at Windermere, and arrived at Tunaru 2.20. A breakdown gang left Timani at T 2.20 with an inspector of permanont way (Mr T\ Nelson f anri .. nuniher of workmen in order to inspect the track. The running of iho north-hound express was not interfered with.—Press Association. RUGBY.—OTAGO v. SOUTHLAND. Half-time: Otago In. Southland 5.