LATEST NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12636, 22 May 1919, Page 1

LATEST NEWS.

' 9 PARIS, May 21. Count Rantzau is back lit Versailles. He was accompanied from Spa by Herr Wasscrmann, Director of Reichstag. A full financial delegation will proceed this morning, including Herr Gukborl and Herr Landsborg, making the Versailles Delegation complete. A German official wireless states that the Berlin Government and National Assembly are in complete accord with the plenipotentiaries, who, by determined and hard work, will reply within the time limit. ■ IJlis leads to the expectation of (he delivery on Wednesday of a. considerable document, demanding' perhaps eight or fifteen days of Allied, inspection. Mr Lansing has passed on to President Wilson the Irish-American application for assistance to obtain passports to Paris for the Sinn Fein delegates. It is unlikely to obtain attention, in consequence of the delegation’s speeches and actions while in Ireland. Mr Lloyd George now refuses to see the Irish-Americans, Messrs Walsh, Ryan and Dunne, who, on President Wilson’s suggestion, ho promised to receive for the purpose of hearing their viewpoint. TTNTVERSITL SCHOLARSHIPS. ■ WELLINGTON, May 22. The Senate of the New Zealand University has announced the following scholarships for mat—Engineering Travelling Scholarship Oscar Dasper Borer (Canterbury College); Travelling Scholarship in Arts—Miss Catherine Christina. Btaddock (Victoria College); Travelling Scholarship in Medicine— Louis Amos Bennett (Otago University) EXTENSION OF TIME. PARIS, May 21. A week’s extension of time has been granted the Germans io reply to the Peace Tormsi' • ATLANTIC FLIGHT ABANDONED. LONDON, May 21.Pickles, interviewed, states that his wife has nersuaded him to abandon the Atlantic flight, in the interests’ of their infant son, owing to the Hawker disaster. INDUSTRIAL- FEDERATION. WELLINGTON, May 22. At a recent conference hold in Wellington between representatives of the Miners' Federation, and the Transport Workers’ Federation, the basis of an agreement was adopted whereby these two industrial departments will ccm< together in an industrial organisati'n The constitution will be subjec < l.i approval of the different organ;.-Hu .- connected with both Federations. ENGLISH RACING. DOMINION . . . ,i OLD BILL .... 2 LORD BASIL . . . ?. WANGANUI RACES. HACK HURDLES. OMAHU .... 1 ' GUNWALE . . .2 BERNICE .... 3 . OAMARU RAGES. ELECTRIC HANDICAP. RADIAL . . . .1 BELAIR . . ... 2 KILLINEY ... 3 OAMARU CUP. BURRANGONG . . t MARIANNE . . 2 CAVEROCK ... 3 Scratched—lndus. RAILWAY HANDICAP. HONSIGN .... 1 TUNIC .... 3 LADY SUPERIOR . . 3