SECOND EDITION.

Mataura Ensign, 26 September 1913, Page 5

SECOND EDITION.

DISCOVERY OF PACIFIC. * A UNIQUE CELEBRATION. 81 ELECTRIC TELEORAPII COPYRIGHT TEE UNITED I'IiESS ASSOCIATION. Received September 20. 1.5 p.m. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25. A festival celebrating Vasco de Balboa's discovery of the Pacific was inaugurated by wireless messages which notified all vessels in the Pacific within radius to dip their flags in the explorer's memory.

Vasco NmneK Balboa, a Spanish soldier, was born at Xeres do los Cabailleros in 1475; and died at Ada, near Darieni, in 1517 or 1618. In' 1500 Kc went to America, and made numerous explorations, generally conciliating the Indians, and from them he learned that there was a great sea to the south (the Pacific), and far southward a country rich in gold, where the people were civilised (Peru). Determined to- discover those, he set out from Darien in 1513 with a small force, and after an adventurous journey reached on September 25 a mountain from which he first saw the Pacific. The shore itself was attained on September 29, and Balboa, entering the water, took possession for the Kings of Castile.