ROUND BRITAIN.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 28 August 1913, Page 5

ROUND BRITAIN.

FROM ABERDEEN TO DUBLIIC. A DIFFICULT STAGE. i (Received August 27, 10 t.m.) LONDON, August 36. I There were immense crowds at lb* . various centres to welcome MrHaw-, ) ker. The conditions continue excellent, except for coastal fogs. Mr , Hawker is well. Mr Kauper has recovered from Mat fall. Mr Hawker was delayed at Beod- , nell and Montrose, owing to wtgnt adjustments being necessary. After ■ that he averaged &ixty-eight miles ft* hour. Ho left Aberdeen hoping to , reach Dublin, via Oban, a distance of 450 miles, to-day. This is one of tho most difficult stages. If fie Hoes nmi , do so, there is but slight hope of bis success. Cromarty was readied : afc 2.5, the aviator journeying 131 miVg in 130 minutes. OBAN SAFELY REACHED., (Received August 27, 11 a.m.) T _ . LONDON, August 36- . Hawker has reached'Oban, on th» -, * > % coast' of tiootlaod; "he remiint ' ' overnight"." franker V \ , a of/ lOliOft, - descending" . two graceful circled. l - • The .bay," w»e ; > trbuWeSome, * gusts of wind impeded the, w5 along the Caledonian AT ABERDEEN. > (Received August 27, 10.15 «.n*.) • ; LONDON, -August 26. Hawker resumed his flight' afc 8 o'clock , this morning, and- arrived a& Aberdeen at 10.45.