NEWS BY MAIL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11913, 6 April 1933, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL

THE -PHANTOM CLIMBER.

STORY OF SHACKLETON'S EXPEDITION

A story of linw -when Sir Ernest Shackleton and two others were crossing mountains in South Georgia in, 191 G to obtain help during the. expedition in the Endurance they .thought that a fourth climber (was with tljem was told recently by .Commander Frank AYorslcy, who was one of the three. l*fe was addressing the members of the Northumberland and Durham Association in London. “Nobody had ever crossed these mountains before,” said Commander Worsley. ‘ ‘That night there was a terrible blizzard on the- mountains, pud not again, during that (winter could we have made the journey. There was no doubt about it; that Providence was looking often us. We always had a strange feeling that there were four crossing, when actually there were three-”

BLACK CAT TN COURT

EECONCTLTATIO N EFFECTED

>A black cat played an important part in a case at Tottenham;'' (England): The cat entered the court an jumped ion to the clerk's table when the magistrate was lien ring the evidence of a. wife who had summoned her husband for alleged cruelty. The magistrate noticed the cat and {suggested to the wife that it might be\ sign that if she let bygones he bygones her future with her husband would be happy'. She thought reconciliation impossible- But just, then the cat rubbed its nose against her hand. The wife hesitated and then said that perhaps after all reconciliation was possible. The husband, tliougiu so, too. and the couple were referred to’the court missionary. When they left the court the black cat wen out (with them.