MRS. SCOTT'S EXPECTATIONS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 36, 12 February 1913, Page 7

MRS. SCOTT'S EXPECTATIONS

HER HUSBAND "A GOOD SAILOR." (Received February 12, 11 a.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, llth February. Before leaving here, Mrß. Scott said she expected her husband to succeed in his quest. She hoped to meet him at one of the New Zealand southern ports. Captain Scott was sure, she added, to suffer bitter disappointment when he found that Captain Amundsen had reached the Pole first, but her husband was a good sailor, and would not begrudge for a moment another's victory. BREAKING THE NEWS TO CAP. TAIN SCOTT'S MOTHER. (Received February 12, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, llth February. Lady Ellison-Macartney, Captain Scott's sister, and wife of Sir William Ellison-Macartney, Governor-designate of Tasmania, broke the news of the disaster to her mother. THE CAPTAIN'S LITTLE SON. STATUE TO BE" ERECTED AT CARDIFF. (Received February 12, 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, llth February. The news of his father's death has not been communicated to Captain Scott's three and a-half-year-old son Peter, who is living with his grandmother at ttenley, where the flags are flying at half-mast. Shipowners and merchants at Cardiff will erect a statue to Captain Scott. There is .world-wide sympathy for the loss of Captain Scott. Resolutions have been received from foreign and colonial Legislatures. Topical interest attaches to Mr. Ponting's films of the Scott expedition, which are being shown throughout tho country.