THE FAR SOUTH.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13938, 20 April 1909, Page 2

THE FAR SOUTH.

A FRENCH EXPEDITION.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright.

(Received April 20, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, ■ April 19. , Letters brought by whalers report that Dr. Cliai cot's- Antarctic expedi- v tionary vessel Pourquoi Pas passed Christmas at Deception Island, and that it winters at Alexander the First Land. " -■.

[The Pourquoi Pas, with Dry Charcot's second Antarctic expedition (ten wards- which the French Parliament granted a subsidy of £32,000) sailed 7 from Havre en August 15. Dr. Char-* cot intended first to make a collection of. the fossils to which attention j*l& drawn by • Dr. tfordenskyjqld, and afterwards to explore the Tegion .lying scuth of- Loubet Island.]