THE ANTARCTIC.
In conversation with a Lyttolton "Times" roportor the other day, Liciitonant Shackleton remarked that traces of tin / and ', gold have been found in the place to {which the Antarctic Expedition is going." expedition is not fitted up for dealing j'with theso things, but, if w,q>. aiO' successful in respect to valuable metals, it will ho a 'good thing for Now Zealand. Other expeditions to inquire into tho possibilities of tlio couatiy in that direction will be; sent out, , and. they will leave from New Zealand ports. It is ■not as bad in winter time thore as it is at Klondyko. A Klqndyke minorj who is worth about two millions and a , quarter, speaking to me in London, said ho thought that there was every possibility bofore the country in those rogions. Wo arc; not going for that, and must put it on ono side! Dut we can gain the land for the Empire,' and it will be within New Zealand's sphoro of iufluence."
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 73, 19 December 1907, Page 7
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