“STOP PRESS" NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16494, 3 August 1921, Page 12

“STOP PRESS" NEWS.

(Bceerrad for !»te nows fawheS sffor ihe paper has gone to press.> TABAXAKI v. CANTERBURY, First spoil score : TARANAKI . s CANTERBURY . . SPRINGBOKS WIN. Final Score. * SPRINGBOKS ... . . SOUTH CANTERBURY . 3

: .Y THE ONGAROTO TRAGEDY. HAMILTON, August 3. The xe-trial of Hakari-a Te Kahu for the murder of .Richard Elliot,- at Ongar oto on Easter Sunday, was continued to-day.-Campbell Hamilton gave evidence that the prisoner' said to him in Maori that but for the bloodstains found on the trail tho riolice would not have known anything unusual had been said or had occurred. John Clarke, accountant of a timber company, said that on Good Friday lie put two five? pound notes in Elliott’s pay envelope, and also paid Te Kahu .Til 14s, including one live-pound note. A irumbei of other witnesses gave evidence as to the notes. One stated that he had seen a brown leather wallet in E-frHott’s possession, similar to that in the court. Other witnesses in Elliott's gang said Elliott did not change/money for them. PRISONERS RECAPTURED. The prisoners who escaped from the Oamani Gaol on Monday night worrecaptured to-day miles o;' the Waitaki River-mouth. The fhw. made for Enfield and there stole a railway jigger. He doubled back and went north. THE TURKS AND GREEKS. LONDON, August 2. The “ Daily Telegraph’s ” special correspondent with the Greek Army states that the GrecSs strongly hold the Bagdad Railway as far as Eskiskir. Kemal’s munition/ were inadequate at tin commencement of the campaign, an< are now so depleted that it is impos sible for him to attempt a serious attack. He maintains near Angora th: semblance of an army, estimated a--50,000, chiefly in order to impress tin European Powers, but his force is lacking in equipment and morale. The men 4ire deserting continually at the first opportunity. The correspondent states that it is true that the populace received the Greeks in the captured areas as liberators. They wefe delighted to escape the Kemalist- exactions and the depredations of irregular bandits.