THE PLANS OF THE NEW GREENLAND EXPEDITION.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 244, 14 October 1891, Page 3

THE PLANS OF THE NEW GREENLAND EXPEDITION.

The steam brigantine Site has Bailed for Greenland, from Boston, with the Peary Exploring Expedition, The party consists of Lieutenant Peary and his wife, and five Boientifio aides, two geologists, a zoologist and ornithologist, a botanist and and en entomologist, two Burgeons, and a journalist. Lieutenant Peary said to a press representative : — The chief object of our expedition will be to discover whether Greenland is an island, or part of the American continent. If the latter proves to be the case the question of reaching the North < Pole will be settled, for then it will only be necessary to penetrate further and further into the frozen country along the west coast. Goal will be taken in as often as possible, as the steamer conBumes six tons daily. We ezpeot to take six weeks to reaoh Whale Sound, where we will build a house, and then my wife and myself and the scientists will start out. We Bhall first establish provision stations to the north of this point, and this will consume the rest of this year. The actual business of the expedition will begin in the summer 1892. Jomrneya from station to station will be made, and snow shoes, skates, and provisions taken to the depdts by means of men and dogs. I believe we shall reaoh within 350 miles of the Pole by travelling 1200 miles to and from the main station. This journey will take three months if we travel eighteen miles a day. The party will be divided into North and West Greenland parlies.

At an inquest held at Cork as to the death I of a soldier in the Welsh Regiment a remarkable Btory of canine aouteneea was told. A corporation scavenger working in King street was attacked by a dog running up to him and then baok to a broken hoarding. 'I he animal continued this oondnot bo long that the Boavenger at last oono'uded that the dog wißhed to get him inside. He followed the dog, wbioh led him to where the wounded Boldies lay on some straw under the boards. Another dog sat at the young fellow's head, as if watohing him. When the soavenger brought some assistance and the police, the dog which first attracted attention was lying shivering at the soldier's (eet. In the con* fusion in attending the man and having him conveyed to the hospital no further notioe was taken of the animals, but the police are now making every effort to traoe them. The medical testimony went to show that the deceased died from a compressed oompound fraoJure ot the skull, and an open verdict was returned.