Terra Australis.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 January 1911, Page 3

Terra Australis.

WIIO DISCOVERED IT? I [BY ET.ECTIUO TELECIUPH--COPYKIGHT.} [PER PRES3 ASSOCIATION.] ■ SYDNEY, January 19. Mr E. Petherick, of the Federal Government Library, claims to have secured proof, after forty years , research work, that Australia was discovered by Amerigo Vespucci in 1<199. The- proof rests on tho result of a find made by a university professor at Cracow. Poland. The discovery was in the shape of a little globe, o!' date 15L0. fonnino; part of the onia mentation of a clock, which J ihad. been hidden I'tir four hundred years. The dohe shows the outline ■of land south of hidi;>. Professor K.sfreicher, Hie discoverer of the ha.s published a \rnir pap«r in .support of Vespucci's c'aiin to the discovery of Australia.