MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 January 1924, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

i. iDriTUAUAN AM) N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. BOFN'D THE AVORI.D I’M(iHT. A BRITISH PROJECT. fßecaMed this dav lit 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, Jiiiuiiiry S. Tlivoff members of the sir lorn' leave i.oiuhni in ii low weeks to lly round the world in 210 hours’ flying time. Sqiiud;ron Lender AlcEnroii is the navigator and |1 vine oflieer, Prcnderleith pilot, mu! Sere.t. Andiews, meehiuiie. ’the machine is n specially designed Vickers’ Vikiiifr Amphibian lilted with a •A) horse (mwer Napier-Lion engine. It J yi,4 a speed ol tit) miles per horn with a lange ol seventeen httnilred miles. Lull advantage will he I alien of the organisations established lor Sir Boss Smith’s attempt. The project is not tiinmeed by the Air Ministry but use will lie made of the air force stations along the 21,500 miles of the route which is west to erst across France, Mesopotamia, India, Chinn. ,)apan. Kamschalka. Aleutian Islands, Canada, and St. Johns. If conditions are favourable the Atlantic will he crossed in a single flight. DINAfCDE COAIAIANDER'S DEATH. "Y flieceived this day at 0.2.1 a.m.) PARIS. January 8. A post mortem on the remains ot the commander of the Dixinude confirms the theory that the airship was ; nek by lightning and was rent to —torments by the explosion. Ihe cause death was not drowning, hut through being hurled at a terrific speed through the air as a result of the explosion. HON. WHITLEY AO AIN SPEAKER. LONDON. January 8. The lit. Hon. .T. If. Whitley has nicer re-elected Speaker of the House of Commons.