MR WILDE INTERVIEWED.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12184, 27 March 1909, Page 8

MR WILDE INTERVIEWED.

Wilde, none, of,the [southern party who reached within jess than 100 miles from Pole, gave a reporter some fragmentary impressions. " The drawback for the whole of the trip,", he said, "was the EXTREME SHORTNESS OF FOOD. We were, but for 126 days on 91 days' rations. That was as much as we could, carry. We were as thin as rakes. Ourallowance, which consisted of pemmican and biscuits, was to have been 33ozs daily, but" at.one time it was cut down to nearly half that for some weeks.*' "Yes," .said Wilde, :•'.?we could have? gotrfche other 97 miles"to Pole, *bW we.- ■■.■"'-:.'■•-■■■,. . ■>• ■<;■'"■•■ .'.K:\yv-- -^;r'-;' COULDN'T HAVE GOT BACK. We were running so many risks at the' time." ■•..-■■■•■•..•v; -•.■•.-■.-.■ :v :.:;,.-:■-,-.■;■•■■ -.•■ KINEMATO&RAPH RECORDS. One of ther features .of the equipment was thie inclusion of a. kihematbgraph. It recorded the unloading of stores fr6m the Nimrod in a blkjiard?^the arrival ia* Lyttelton Hiirbour, the starting 1 of siedg© parties and the action of seals and sea leopards, and, most interesting of all, the actions of penguins. Marshallj, who was in charge of the kinematbgraphj states that the results were: high-; ly satisfactory. He used over 400u feet of film^(, of which about 2000 had vbeen" given up to the penguins alone. Over 1000 feet had been developed, arid it was shown by the pictures obtained that the apparatus was a good one. From a scientic point of view it will be the means ©f ' i ADDING VERY LARGELY TO THE WORLD'S KNOWLEDGE of the habitsoorf r Antarctic animals . MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN. Following is a cablegram received by Lieut. 5 Shackleton ■ ■ yesterday :—'' Lieut. Shackleton, discovery ship Nimrod, Lyt-telton^-The editor of the 'Daily Mail' is commanded by the gracious Majesty the Queen to convey to Lieut. Shackleton her Majesty's heartiest congratulations upon his great achievement.—An-. drew Caird, editors-in-chief: "v