MAWSON'S RETURN.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2000, 6 March 1914, Page 7

MAWSON'S RETURN.

, VISIT TO ENGLAND. HIS COMING MARRIAGE . ;■; : ' 'ANNOUNCED. • . ' By Telciriph-Press Aesoclatlon-OopyrJeht : v ', . Adejalde,■ March. 5. The Aurora will return to Hobart to .await orders. ' •■' ■'"•' - . . < Dr. Mawson will /shortly -visit' 1 En*-' land in connection with' tho expedition. ■•:■.••■■'" ■•'.■,'•■-■, His forthcoming marriage to Miss Delprat, a daughter of. tho .general manager of tho Broken Hill Proprietary mine, is announced. .;,... '

;■■.„_ Sydney,-' March. 5. ■ -Dr. M'Lean (bacteriologist) and-Mr. Hurley (photographer), of. the Mawson expedition, have returned to Sydney. Dr. M'Lean added few detail's to what is, already known. .He (said that the story of the expedition was a loiiß one,and was not-for him to tell. When Dr. MaVEon's book ca'mo. out people. would reaiiifhe whole thing; ,-■•■"' .. Amongst other., important discoveries wore'tho uests of Antarctic petrels, which had never beforo been found, six Boss seals, and a very rare species of whale. ; By dredging, many rare new specimens were obtained. . .

FUNDS FOR SHACKLETON. '-;■'" .'. . London, March 4;

The Government is granting Sir .Ernest Shackleton. £5000 in 1914 and £6000 in--IUIS. . . ■-, ■ .-. - : ; '- ■'■■ ' ■'-.'.

COUNTING THE COST. (Hoc. •.March oi 10.5 p.m.)

■~•;''■.■■ . . Melbourne, March &. '.Professor Ma'ssc-n, F.R.S. (Professor of Chemistry at Melbourne University); states, that;.£lo,ooo will .solve; all tlio financial problems of the Mawson expe■dition". JUespitO' tjhis need, the Commonwealth grant of £5000 helped 'to smooth-the financial difficulties. Ho expects to realise large sums from the sale of pictures, as well as the* sale of Dr. 'Man-son's boat. So far, there was.no occasion to,'be otherwise- than cheerful ''over.tlie question of .money.