UNEXPECTED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20100, 20 March 1928, Page 7

UNEXPECTED

RED ROSE ARRIVES ’Plane Reaches Darwin Ahead of Schedule ADVENTUROUS TRIP. OVER. (By Telegraph—Per Press Assn.—Copyright.) Received March 19, 11.20 p.m. (A. & N.Z.) DARWIN, March 19. Captain Lancaster and Mrs Keith Miller arrived to-day, many hours ahead of schedule, completing their adventurous trip from England. Their arrival was so unexpected that there was no one to welcome them at the landing ground.

HINKLER’S DOINGS VISIT TO MELBOURNE. AN ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOME. (A. & N.Z.) MELBOURNE, Mar. 19. Captain Hinkler arrived and was welcomed by 60,000 to 70.000 people, including the Premier, Mr J. T. Hogan, and the Lord Mayor. Cootamundra and Wagga were visited en route from Canberra and at each place Hinkler was enthusiastically received.

THE ATLANTIC, FLIGHT LAST HOURS BEFORE DEPARTURE. CATHOLIC PRIEST’S STORY. (Sun Cable). LONDON, March 18. Father Arensen, priest at Grantham, tells how the Hon. Elsie Mackay, who was a recent convert to Catholicism, with Captain Hinchcliffo, attended services on Sunday morning, and five o’clock on Tuesday morning Miss Mackay woke him. deeply conscious of the risk she was taking in the Atlantic flight, and alone they took Holy Communion in the dimly lit church. He gave her his blessing kneeling under a crucfix. She was obviously excited and deeply affected by the ceremony. She accompanied him to his study to say good-bye and told him her secret before departing to join Captain Hinchcliffe and others waiting in a car outside. The liner Majestic, which reached Cherbourg yesterday from New York, reported that on Tuesday, when Captain Hinchcliffo’s flight began, a sharp look-out was kept for the fliers, but no aeroplane was seen. The weather was very bad and there was a snowstorm over the Atlantic. Captain Hinchcliffe’s machine might have been forced down into the ocean.

AIR FORCE CRUISE CAIRO TO THE CAPE. ONE MACHINE BADLY DAMAGED. (By Radio). RUGBY, March 17. The four Royal Air Force aeroplanes flying from Cairo to Cape Town have arrived at Northern Rhodesia. One of the machines, however, that of Air Vice-Marshal Webb-Bowen, had a mishap. While taking off it crashed and was badly damaged. None of the occupants was injured.