WOOING THE SOUTH.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 53, 13 February 1911, Page 1

WOOING THE SOUTH.

THE JAPANESE EXPEDITION. [FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Feb. 11. The receipt of a cablegram from Count Okuma, Yokohama, advising the fact of a large remittance having been placed to the credit of Lieutenant Shirase, commander of the Japanese Antarctic delayed its departure a few hours on Saturday. The money was obtained from the Union Bank of Australia and is doubtless intended I to meet the expense of refitting the ! vessel in Sydney. After the South- | ern party is landed, the Kainan | Maru is to land the eleven men who i hope to reach the South Pole and i return at once to Sydney and then i go back to the Antarctic to cruise : along the coast line, which is very little known.

Wellington yacht men gave the venturesome explorers a good send off, and quite a dozen pleasure craft sailed down the harbour in line with the Kainan Maru when she made for the straights at 3.30 o’clock. The ferry steamer Duchess steamed around the little vessel, while "the crew were raising the anchors, and to show that New Zealanders appreciated enterprise and bravery whether shown by Europeans or Asiatics a tremendous cheer went up from the passengers. It was answered similarly from the Kainan Maru. Heavy weather from the south prevailed on Saturday night and to-day, .so the Kainan Maru has! quickly met adverse conditions.