ANTARCTIC EXPLORERS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 487, 21 April 1909, Page 7

ANTARCTIC EXPLORERS.

6 f C 'V;V. V-" « DR. CHARCOT. i (BTTBLEQBAPH—PRESB 'ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.) 1 , , ''' 1 London, April 19. letters brought by whalers report that Dr. Charcot's Antarctic expeditionary: vessel "Pourquoi passed Christmas at De- . ception Island, and is- wintering at Alexander j I. Land. ' \ ' , ' _-[Dr. Charcot left'Punta'Arenas, in Southern ) Patagonia, last--December..-:; It is -part; of 'his' ' scMmo, to winter at 1 Alexander I. L*nd. He' ' has suggested that if no news of him is ;t>- 1 ceiTed by April,;J9in, a riliet expedition should , be organised under Lieutenant Andre Matha; .jf , the Trench Navy, who, acted- as - second in eomlamiont ™ rench . expedition m the year? .1903-1905., Dr. Druoe, the' Scottish explorer, is also operating,from;South,America Hi his attempt to cross the great Antarctic Continent.] ; ;WHO PAYS? ■ 4 THE GIFT BATTLESHIP. tBI MLKiluril-n IS-I A VIOCIATIOS 1 TO . , v Napier, 'April 20. ' . VVestshore,, a rising suburb-of Napier, was .. it -patriotic . mood,'last i evening, l and at a 6,largely < attended:; pubho meeting; sthe'-follow-- f -.wsolution^vWos-.-./eamedi*unanimously: • Ifaat this meeting of the residents of; Westshore cordially endorses the action of the Prime Minuter (Sir Joseph Ward) in con- -' °f ;,a " Dreadnought to the British Government, and views with satisfaction the unswerving loyalty and patriotism siioyvn throughout the Dominion at this juncture In speaking to the motion, tho Member for Nap,or (Mr. J. Vigor Brown +? that . he, bad ■ heaid .some objections to the gift of a Now Zealand battleship* on behalf of the working mon, He ' IJ ir Tl' that when the question came before Parliament it would bo found that nearly all, if not the whole, of the taxation to meet the cost of the loyal gift would come from the wealthier classes.. At theisame tune the gift was made for the ft® I '® «f, the homes of the working men ?/ u' H h "PP elled > »s ho hoped ma?£rv Jn, ' that ' Germany secured the 7 1° 6 seas ' l(i wou!d be found that f 6a «f this Dominion would not only have to pay one million in taxation, ' but two or three. They would have to meet the taxation of the Government of Germany w;™ 8 ■*' he J a9kcd ' that to pay t& <m France as the result . of the .- 1 ranco-Prussian -War ? -It was '■ tb» £ i - u'r' ?•; •;" b'M been said that, Sir Tn seph Waid should ,have •consulted the ni«mi . ;?f Parliament before making 'this rift clid d eS "if m Lr tiomCn '" Mr - Brown 2: ~,i. ™®ci,, if ,you saw.a man drowning in n,„ fV" f r<> n t of you, would you wiro down hSs tr 4 s « plunging in to Idpjto ,=,,1 (BT TEtEOBIrH-PBESS ASSOCIATION.) ' At a meeting of the Navy' b resolution was carried nmv)l,.i& £ ' alt? th £ in P oS a Dreadnought to tho Mother Country. 8