LIEUTENANT SHACKLETON.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 483, 16 April 1909, Page 5

LIEUTENANT SHACKLETON.

• fcMmUNED ])Y tllli MIME • . , ; MINISTER, ". ' i Aliappy flliftld to Llfiutelitillt Shaokleton'a ■ [■ visit to SVdlingVoiVWhS tllti lflneheoil fciVtell in i his honour l>y Blf Jftscph Yfahl mid the Mihlh- ; try at; tho Grand Hotel yesterday,, 'ThoiUj ' present woro tho Prlmo Minister, lions, Dfi J. G. Fiiidiay, 0, l<Wld&, l)uddt>, J, Car* • roll, Jusfes Denidstoii, Williams, anil Ohay. ; liiaii, Mcss«. 31, "\Yright, If. M. B. fishery , T. M.Wilford, j. 1\ Luke, M.ll.lUs, Hens.' llw vA. LoUghuMl, 0. 1 Mr Lulrej Jcnlrilißon, and C, J, Johnston, M.L.O.'s, Messrs. \V. U. ihithio and Lieutenant Adams (of tlio Antractio expedition); ' 'i'htj l'rimo Minister (Sir Joseph AVard) ( proposed thd health of Lieutenant iShackletohj •• :»v)io, ho fetiidj .leaving No*, Zealand oil 1 tlie rnomfr to moot, tliofeo ntor'and dear to [ him in the .Old Land, ,to which he wished • , liipi return. (Applause,). li'iom tho , scientific standpoint, tlio membersof the ox- , pedition had jiot worked out tho results of tlio observations taken, but ho xvos assured ;that was a task, wliieh iiiighl take'hotweon four and live years. Sir Joseph referred to | the courage that tins' shown liy-Littitenftliti . ; , Sllftckletoi in al'r&ngillg this uXpeditibil with- 1 , out any .special, organisation , behind . him. ; i and to the reniarkablo wftj in whith ho had i eoinftMiided. sUueuSiSt Ne\v Koalaildefb : . proud of the fhet, that Lvttelton had been made tho' headquarters ol tlio . >ud that tlio Doniinioiv was to rtcelVo soino of tho pl'oduots that tiioiitehalit Slltteklo- , ton: aiul .his bravo iuell had.-secured. ■ Tlio Premier also referred to Lieutenant i Adams,, the sewnd ill command of the'expo*. . dition, whom ho wished every, success ill tins • : fututo. Ho hoped that the next expedition ,to the Antarctic,would, be under Lieutenant. > Shaekleton, with Lieutenant Adams as tho In' command. Thtii, if they lnado ti - eniiifoiiablo trafck, tlm munbefs of tho Wln» ■ i&try might milw tlio tiny. (Lighter) - 1 ". Lieutettiint Shfccklcton, who was cnthiisias-i . 1 titolly received, returned thanks , to Wi for tlw kindly itfet+nw to tlio tm-> pedition. "Itft il6o expired his • timireeiu* tion of what Jy'mv Hc&laiid and Australia had do-no for the expedition financially. The oxpc-/; u dition li*d not uoih> all that thev wanted ■ , U'lmt man mWdid thatP— but ho,hoped that it lmd sdv.inoftd a few steps along the rung* of the l&ddw of knowledge. (Applause,) After paying a tribuw to Cantaltt SctUt, who Imd dono the pioneering worlt in sneli eiita" ' „ misofl, he situ that ever since thenlih) had ' Mt the sauth.'Uiero had been cno demo 'on 1 the part of the,2l! men on board, and that ' iva« to coinmoni')ralo tho country (and tho Union Co., whoso steamer, the Koouva, had toffed tlio Xirufod to the ice), wltfeh Imd' given them sueli; hearty supporti by naming after them some of tlio new landmarks Hint h&d bten dikovwed in tlio FhivSouthi li« cdtild only say, with Keats, that " the. deavtli ■ of human words and the ronrfinoiiß of •mortal R)ieeth " prevented him giving adequate ox, ■ liression to his thoMuhts i hut they could (tssursd that, he was faraway in his mvn homo, lift would: look baek to Now Zeahiiut rt'liM" ho had received so liiuth kindness imd liosnitftlity and look stiir furrier south to ! Kreluls— ' : "lt(?r«M of roHiniing suns to thoss waiiliitr . lauds below, . ' • Beacon lo 6ur, liouie-seekinjf ftst across (lift foutherii snow, : Iti tho uoi'thlund in (lie ysafs to iials winter's first frhitu sigtti' , I Ever shall turn our thoughts', to thee and tin clamour that Is tliiuc." .' .. ; - Thoro Was one who had stood to liini t'liroilßh a very diflleult tiino, and that was Lieutenant Adams, but bo amused "Hill Adams" lmd' botl+r roply for hitnsclfi, . Lioubßiui.nl Adams.t,hen replied brie.ily. After, liliiehoon tho party 'iscwided'to Hit ; Bfthtan roof of tho Grnlid llutol, and woro .duly "snatipod" by tho übiquitous: bhotogrilphon ■ ■ . ; ■■. . IjioufcoliSnts ■ Slmekk'toii and Adolnn ; for Sydney tO'dny,' on routo to Unal.nid. '' tJliLJiLtilijll \