LATE MESSAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 December 1934, Page 5

LATE MESSAGES

NEW. PLYMOUTH, December 27. The Hawke Cup: An exciting stage was reached in the match with Manawatu. Taranaki were all out for 191 in the second innings, leaving Manawatu requiring 80 to win. However, •at the lunch adjournment, Manawatu had five wickets down for 48 runs. DUNEDIN, December 27. A report that Ellsworth and Balchen have made a trans-Atlantic flight is generally discredited. Enquiries made from reliable sources produce not the slightest, substantiation. Ellsworth dislikes publicity, but in the proudest moment of his adventurous life not even this reserved American could have maintained silence while if he had landed at Byrd’s base, the arrival could not have been kept quiet. Such is the view expressed here. AUCKLAND, December 27. When watching the fireworks display given on the harbour last night, two young people sitting on the steep hillside of Mt. Victoria, Devonport, were struck on the head by a stone which rolled from above. Apparently someone above dislodged a number of stones which rolled past the couple, then came a larger one which struck a young man, G. L. Griffin, knocking him unconscious, and then struck his girl companion on the head. Both were sent home. Griffin quickly recovered consciousness, and whs at work, to-day, but Miss Connor, whose head was severely gashed, may be in bed for a week. Whether th.? stones were deliberately rolled down the hill is not known.