"STOP PRESS" NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12777, 22 October 1919, Page 1

"STOP PRESS" NEWS.

■ -4 (Reserved for !at« news tecefrea after the paper has gone to preset THE KAIAPOI SEAT. .Mr David Jones, pros idem ol tin tanners’ Union, informed a deputation o-day that ho would contest the Ivu; v >ol seat as the Reform candidate. MOTOR ACCIDENT. OAMARU, October 22. A collision occurred to-day in Weston Road, at Gilchrist’s Corner, between Thomas M'Quiu, a motorist, and James Johnston, a motor-cyclist. The tar and motor-cycle were found -wedged together. Johnston was removed to the hospital in an unconscious condition, Ho is .= -, tiering from a fractured skull. AUCKLAND TROTS. ALEXANDRA HAND I CAT. ORUARANGI ... 1 LORD ROSE .... a STAR QUEEN . . , J All tJfjikd. £ £ AUCKLAND TROTS. REMUERA HANDICAP. KING CAPITALIST. . . i BRONZE PATCH . .2 HINT All started. LATE CABLE. LONDON, October 21, Captain Matthews and Sergeant Kay started from Hounslow for Australia ■ under excellent conditions, and in the presence of many Australians and British Hying officers, who cheered as tb Sopwith rose. The party included M Hawker, who arrived in a triplane ; the lust moment. Captain Matthew; arrived at 8.06 a.m. The mechanic; wore already timing up- the macninf. i which ran splendidly. The fog lifted at eleven, and Captain Matthews and Sergeant Kay donned tho leather fur lined kits, looking as though readv for an Arctic expedition. Tho crowd meanwhile was anxiously watching the Continental weather reports and the board showing the day’s departure, on-which tho following was posted:—“ Machine, Sopwith. Destination, Australia. Time, % when fog clears.” • Captain Matthews did not disclose the destination of hi first stage. It is believed that it i South France. He added that he wa: not taking a collapsible boat, as I would only prolong the agony, j GAPE TOWN, October 21. j Iho Australians' first innings con ‘ eluded for 111 (Lampard 55). Budge; i took seven wickets for 70. Wester; | Provinces iu their second innings mad j 179 (Hearno 55, Blanckenborg IS). Lam | pard took seven wickets for 71. 1 f LONDON, October 21. ! A Bolshevik wireless message.;; legcs that Denikin was defeated and Orel recaptured. Nineteen enemy infantry regiments were literally annihilated; and two armoured trains captured-..' THE FIRST TANKS, . LONDON, October 21." De-mole, who was a oprporal in the Australian Army, giving evidence ai the Commission of Inquiry regutdSn the tanks, said ho realised the advantages oi the chain-mil System " while engaged on heavy transport work 'in * West Australia in 1911. When UnWar Office returned his documents in 1012, stating that it was not further experimenting iu chain-rails, his friends urged him to submit his models i„ the Gerijiciu, out he refused, owing to the likelihood of their becoming enemies. ;ic unsuccessfully submitted fresh plans to the War Office in 1915. He- thought Jits own invention better than lire present tanks, in view of their ability to go backwards, and the steering gear be--iug better. The models, etc., cost £IOOO. Mr Justice Sargent "said that | the claim' might l>o doubtful, because--1 it did not mature info the present inI venlion, but He Commission was obIligei for evidence showing how the general idea originated, li , t> , I AUCKLAND TROTS. MANAKAU HANDICAP, - ECCENTRIC . . . q WAVEiRLELY '.' .’ , 2 ALF M'KINNEY . . . 3 Derby Dillon and Strategy - wore. ■ scratched.