A MOTORING TRIUMPH

Northern Advocate, 22 January 1927, Page 8

A MOTORING TRIUMPH

ORDINARY CAR CONQUERS

SAHARA

(Received 12.10 p.m.) PARIS, December 21.

From Paris to Niamey, Nigeria, in eight days was the remarkable motoring exploit of Lieut. Estienne. Hitherto it had been supposed that special cars were necessary to cross the Sahara. At first caterpillar wheels were tried, then a six-wheeled car. Lieut.Estienne conquered the desert in a small ordinary six horsepower car. He left Paris on the afternoon of January 7, embarked for Oran on the Bth, reached Niamey on the morning of the 15th, and handed the Governor a Paris letter only a week old, whereas normally the post takes six weeks.

Lieut. Estienne intends to proceed to Zinder and Kano. —A. and N.Z. ADD TE AROHA TROTS

Waitoa Handicap, one mile and a half. —(8) Horizon, It., .1; (1) Bell Dial, It., 2; (6) Maid of the Mountains, “It., 3. Scratched: Taipare and Harris. Won by half a length. Time. —3.53 2-5.