SCOTT SAID TO HAVE REACHED IT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 8 March 1912, Page 5

SCOTT SAID TO HAVE REACHED IT.

'RETURN OF THE ERA}!. CAPTAIN AMUNDSEN RETICENT. iPress Association.—Copyr/gjit.) lIOBART, March 7. The Fram arrived this attornoon, and a fleet of launches welcomed her. Permission t<> board the Fram was refused.

Later. Captain Amundsen landed, an i proceeded to the Norwegian Consulate. He absolutely declined to give any information regarding the expedition to interviewers. until he received an answer to a cable which he had sent to Norway. PROFESSOR DAVID'S VIEWS. SVDNEY, March 7. A private wire received in Sydney reports that Captain Scott reached the Pole. Professor David, interviewed, said the report was what everyone was hoping to hear, and what seemed a very likely contingency. At the same time it was strange that no oliicial confirmation had been made through Captain Scott's London agent, or from Mr Kinsey, of Christchurch.

Professor David, comparing the time tlie news of Captain .Scott's alleged discovery of tin; Pole was received and Captain Amundsen's arrival at Hobart, said that if Hobart was the first- telegraphic port the Fram called at, it seems impossible that the Scott report could have come from the Fram. It is, of course, possible that Captain Amundsen himself reached the Pole. NEW ZEALAND REPRESENTATIVE ADVISED. CHRISTCHURCH, March 7. Mr J. J. Kinsev, representative in New Zealand for Captain Scott's Antarctic expedition, received late to-night the following private cable from 'Sydney • "Papers report Amundsen telegraphed privately from Hobart that Scott reached the Pole." This is the only communication Mr Kinsev lias received. NO REPORT RECEIVED IN NORWAY. (Received March 8,. 12.40 p.m.) CHRISTINIA, March 7. King Haakon has not received Captain Amundsen's report. NOTHIN'C; KNOWN IN LONDON". (Received March 8. 12.40 p.m.) LONDON,. March 7. The evening newspapers are displaying a Wellington telegram stating that Captain Amundsen reports that Captain Scott has reached the Pole. Neither Mrs Scott nor the Royal Geographical Society confirm the report.