SHACKLETON EXPEDITION

Nelson Evening Mail, 30 March 1916, Page 5

SHACKLETON EXPEDITION

SHORE PARTIES' STORES. CAPEs EVAN'S PARTY SHORT OF * CI/OTHING AND' FTJEU . : (Copyrighted in Australia and New Zea- > land'by the' Australian Press Asso- , > ciationi in Great. Britain „■ iby 'ihe Daily €hronifele, and in Ameri<yk by the New Ifork World.) > LONDON, March 28. - i The following wireless rflessage' has been received From' the Aurora in the South Pacific Ocean, dated March' 28th-: t 4 'T wo " months' stoTes were left jab Hut < Point for the iion-retiirnedV patty.. - "Ready stores only were; landed, for the Gape Evans party. All sledging, rationfl ■ were" landed,' but the. .patty forq . . short, of fuel and clothing. "The ship had meagre stores, and our main diet throughout-' the drift was penguin and seal. Previously there were sufficient stores at Cape Evans." .... MESSAGE TO,MR MASSE Y. ' ' WELLINGTON", March 29. The commander of the Aurora has sent 'a wireles6' 'mess&ge ; to |Mr M^ssey as followsowe a deep debt of gratitude to the Otago Harbour .Board for its generous offer;, and would ciate thi services of a tug on approach- .... ing larid. ••' "We expect tov arrive on th© , ; 31st.' "Will iiotify you ship's jjositipn fit 8 p.m. -to-morrow.' 'V-' ■■. ,; - " Mr Massey states that he -has., conveyed Lieutenant Stenhouse's message to • the Otago Harbour . Board, and; expects a tug to go out to-morrow nigbt ; to meet the Aiirora,.which TVill /be dopked at Port 'Chalmers immediately "op her arrival; " - . LADY S3ACKLETON'S OPINION. LONDON, Marcb 27. Lady Shackle ton ■„ regards' Sir, Ernspt> i Siiiclcleton's position fls. alarming.lf. party succeeded in crossing they, will" be practically at the end- of I Presumably, • provisions were lapdedt dur- ( i rfig the three months - before she Aurora' \ ' driven <tway, but' I wjriter quarters naye.'beep < established, because -it was the p?rty!s indention P> ' winter on "board. - * messages from- famous - v,#■ v ' NO NEED

(Rec. MarcK 30, 8.5 a.m.) LpNDON, Match 29.. x Lieut. Gran, a! member «*- j pedition, has offered to joiii a relief phfp for Ross Sea. , r ' ' 1 The Daily Chronicle publishes mes- % bages fro?n'-vaxioUß eXp}ofer£. j-' >'* , ' . 1 '• Capt. 4- mu n<jßen' sayfe thajpif S}r /E. Shackle ton restflied McMurdp \SoUn<^'. will ''be safe iof another ye&£. ing thqre an tyro parties andjthgW com-- -> menders; bp dqesviofr think;.we, i&qpujd bfc over pnxious. - Jfe' things vessel should fye sent in- - ■ Oapt.' Ppftry assumes th|£fc M4?kinu>sl} .* was obtaining a supply of aeajlmeap \dn*; ,' ing the summer 1 sufficient fojr ' ' Tintil iiext ;year. Shackl<;to?* <?m*e.fl the -Antarctic ' Hia experience |e- * fiburcefnlnesi should -ensiife «ft#y ' of 'all in the Ross Sea regipn. * A » ship must* "be" fitted J and /flemfciil > uhtil nejct season. He \vafl not' } to "Capt." Nansen apya it is tpoljite in, l the season for sending > this spring. " Ife thiqka Wi 1>« "ftp ? rescue before . next season; and\sees ,n$ f . risks in wintering, as tWre are plenty of seals. - looks with confidence for Snackleton«j. sale return nexjrkeaeon.' t - --•> "v;r . ' ' ' > k :Vji ••» • '' - In view of the gliaclc|etbn*s py. wm consider'; the too aHsiw ' hazardous,' i£ inrae&tjtagi iaw . its pKanfies of success" Jiave T -feet of «an > , dns!4yance< r Lloyd's.' T|ijq t?ite qypted.i# is*< Antarctic JO"' pey rcjnw . TW optdmiatte' view of pf*l>He "suggested thi?, possibility ;*jp being. tratjier' a 'spbrting"' i >\-, yMfm '. .* though ',the .official countenance of v ifio Royal OwgifipbiW ' Society, thene 'are' probably cpnipetent «utK6fitaes' oiii poliir -explprtti • t-iort who wopld yentur© to jpate ficxilties and dangers of" the 'luktetftfekimg % [ so lightly. tile iiriticifm. ?a ■ on ih& assumption ■ that ftih&'tAntwd- ' lie [ wihi<jh Skpckleton i.ra,Y©rsed f froia the Beardmone - jhe" South 'Pole, is" cpni&i'ued from that poin£ Sea. • A -great "deal' oft fOjOOOft/'frtwSve 'leyel, TiatWl tya'v^liflg; > on it is-far'triors fringe of v Antarctici: J 'ln' point l?Tofessor' I>aVid ! id of t&af it will probably "be fotuisd that tttofo i»'"» gently dnclined \ ' (©i^nd 1 - • • lng - from the Weddell- Sett on* the side 'up to ' the 'Stobtli l PWe.^_ l> 'Sir Ernlest Shacklebon ibaff eitated'Hlat'* be s ?* ■ almost the '.travelling H»he 'bae6 If tbese' aai^ioipationa' 1 wene gress in tbp nist' p&rt of the f jaatney should ,haye beagi Tapid, tboagb be remembered this parfe'of' jihe rouie lis a .t^rpa, ..Wie opolioiis on chiefly op.,