CAPTAIN SCOTT'S, BABY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 13, 23 December 1911, Page 8

CAPTAIN SCOTT'S, BABY.

CHASE TO.THB ANTARCTIC. Mr. Burns, of Messrs. Bonds Limited (»ay.s the "London Evening News") started from -Now Bond Street, on a 15,000 _rail« journev, t.o tiiko Captain )f.' l'\ Scott, I lie leader of the British Antarctic Expedition, u photograph of Peter* his baoy , li.iy. ' Caplniu Scott has not; seen his heir lor a yc.ir avl a half. The child was born in iW.', and before he was old enough to speak his father diiul set but on his dash In l'li.e Soulli Pole. Little l'et.er Scott has now grown into a fine bn.v, [mil Mrs. Scott determined to send her luiahaml, as i Christmas present, two photographs el' the ehild. Tlicy nro not ordinary photographs, but are taken by the Kinorn priitos one thousand two hundred and eighty photographs done up : in two rolls, which, when wound round under ;i rtereoscop?, show Peter moving 1 and laughing in play. The Kinora plc--1 lures ore, in fact, kineniatographs of • Peter, in such a handy form Chat they eon I)? packed up into a small box. luero nri' two rolls. One shows Peior I playing willi a bn.ll, which at; last ho , . throws at.the.operator, the other shows: 1 mill stropping with, all the might of his i two and a half years, to get out of a • "nursery playground"~ono of those ■ (luamt pens, to keen children safe. Pind- ! ing he cannot get out, Peter makes a - face and threatens the operator with a i sltck. ■ The original idea was to post the« • kmora pictures tos Cantain Scott, but i Mrs. Scott found, too laic, that the mail ; for the cxiiedition had gone, and • there , would not be another for a. year.' So sho i and Messrs.; Bonds Limited, the propric- • tors' of the Kinora process, have sent; , Mr. Burn's'overland to Marseilles, thene* [ to New Zealand by P. and 0. liner, anil thence to Yictorialand nnd the expedition • as best he can. If lie is able, ho is to t catch (,'ie mail on (Im> wav out; if not;. . he is In push right into Victoriaiand and i establish communication with one of fiir mail-posts c£ the expedition—lonely par- , ties, placed one everv hundred "miles, - which keep flnpto-in Scott a.nd his crew ■ ill I inch, in soiiie kind of way. v.ith tho i outside world. If he misses'these, Mr. . Bums is to gather a little expedition of Ids own, push inwards until ho finds I: Captain Scott among Ihe eternal snows, ' Hiul flclivorjiic baby's photograph into his ; hands. What t;h.e expedition will cost; ■ can hardly be estimated, for that depends t on .when the messenger overtakes tho . mail, with its two days' start. Neither is j, .it known how long (lie jonrnev will occu- . nr. but. ill. all events, tho-bundles of ; films, .which look half a minute each to like, will be months beforo thev arrivo in tho fur-clad hands oi Peter's explorer , father.