LIEUTENANT SHACKLETON.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11840, 1 May 1909, Page 5

LIEUTENANT SHACKLETON.

(Ppess Assn.— By Telegraph— Copyright) (Received May 1,. 9.37 a.m.) J • SYDNEY, May 1. ) A great gathering attended Lieutenant Shackleton's lecture on tho Nimrod exipedition at the Town HaU.' As a result' £512 will bo bunded to tho Hospital fund:,- i

'The Rev. John Ferguson (an ex-New Zealander) made a striking speech at the reception of Lieutenant Shaekletdii in the Lord Mayor's .room a t Sydney last week, tho Morning Herald reports. "Now tliat I see thein,',' ho said, i- ''these heroes .are not to me the great: men that, t^ey . were. When I see them withjOut the glamor of distance, I find then! men, healthy, common, iriodesty and great men; but men of clay like tooni^selves ,* men like us, with their limitstr tions.. However, it is not," he added] emphatically > "of their limitationsAthajbwe 1 are thinking to-day/ but of their delimitations; 1 have heard you,' myLord Mayor, of late mention of* Dreadnoughts. Here are jwtr Dreatfnoughts — Dreadnought Shackleton^ Dreadnought Dayidj Dreadnought Mavf> son, Dreadnought Mackay, Dreadnought Macintosh-^rmen who f eai' nothiiigy Prof ; Da*iid has suggested an observatoiyy for the South Pole. I should suggest a < sanatorium,.' he said, looking rourid: on the healthy, ruddy faces 'arid well/filled cheeks 'around him. "A sanatorium where such, Skinny persons as ypuy my Lord Mayor, or myself, could 'go alrid como back cured." ,