PAPUAN EXPEDITION.
FATHER SHAW'S OFFER ACCEPTED. By Telegraph.— Press Association— Copyright, SYDNEY, 28th February. The Federal Government has agreed to pay the telegraph operators' engaged by the Rev. Father Shaw, of the Randwick wireless station to search for Mr. Sfcaniforth Smith's party in Papua, and has instructed the Administrators of Papua to confer with Father Shaw as to the best means of disposing the various sets of apparatus. In its acceptance the Government recognises the generosity and great value of Father Shaw's offer. STILL HOPE. " AN OLD EXPLORER'S OPINION. (Received March 1, 9.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Mr Foggatt, the Government Entomologist, who was a member of the Bonito party of explorers along the Fly River in the early days, considers- that several more weeks must elapse before there is real pause for anxiety regarding Mr.. Staniforth Smith and party. Fever and donse jungle is more dangerous than, the natives. He mentions that when ijho Bonito party were there they were given up for lost, and obituary notices were published.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 50, 1 March 1911, Page 7
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170PAPUAN EXPEDITION. Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 50, 1 March 1911, Page 7
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