THE BORCHOREVINK EXPEDITION.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 10624, 6 April 1900, Page 5

THE BORCHOREVINK EXPEDITION.

In replying to the toast of his health at • smoke concert at the Bluff, on Monday evening, Mr Borchgrevink. who has just returned from the Antarctic regions, said he could not give the details of what had been dona there, as that mvtst, first be divulged to on whose behalf the project had been undertaken,, but he would inform them that the heavy expenditure incurred on .sending the expedition to the regions of the South Pole had resulted in a completely successful mission. He **w no reason why tho people* in the colonies should not actively prosecute work °f the nature carried on for so many yss*» by people \ n the older lands. His reason *w saying that colonials should give attention to exploration was that he* tarst connived the iuea of gaing to the Antarctic regions when ho was engaged surveying in w»e Australian bush, and what bo had seen of the lif t . aim tbe spirit of enferprise and "•tenninatum there h»d helped him greatly »8 hia <flidosi.vour» to overcome the difßcuf- £*» m « with. He had received firs first *"»<«»» in independence und self-confidence. *> the Australian bush, qualifies so essen- ! ll « in carrying out the undertaking just, •WapJeted.