ROOSEVELT'S RIVER.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12283, 9 July 1914, Page 5

ROOSEVELT'S RIVER.

CRUEL INCREDULITY. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Pf.r Press Association.) Received July 9. at 1.00 p.m. New York, July S. Shown the English newspaper Despatch after attending a progressive meeting. Mr Roosevelt, commenting on Savage Landor's renewed attempts to discredit the discovery or' a new South American river, said: ''Landor is a. perfectly preposterous absurdity. No serious scientist thinks of attempting to accept him as anything more than a buffoon as an explorer."