A MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN.
CHRISTCHURCH, March 26. Lieut. Shackleton has received the following cable from the Queen:— " Your telegram received tfiis morning, iho Queen has read it with interest and I have her Majesty's commands to say she will gladly receive back from you on your return to Engand the Union Jack entrusted to your charge and which you have now made of suck historic interest and value. lam further commanded to convey ( to you the Queen s appreciation of your desire ! which she gladly consents* to, that a new ran^e of mountains discovered by you in the -Par South should be named after her Majesty.—Dighton Probyn."
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC19090327.2.62.6
Bibliographic details
Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12184, 27 March 1909, Page 8
Word Count
108A MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12184, 27 March 1909, Page 8
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Wanganui Chronicle. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in