NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 859, 30 June 1910, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

A northern contemporary thus admonishes a gentleman who sought to punish the editor by stopping the paper ; “After you get angry and stop your paper just poke your finger in water, pull it out, and look for the hole. Then you will know how sadly you are missed. A man who thinks a paper cannot thrive without his support ought to go off and stay awhile. When he comes back half his friends will not know he was gone, and the other half will, not care a cent, while the world at large keeps no account of his movements. You will find things that you cannot endorse in every paper. Even the Bible is rather plain, and it hits some hard licks. If you were to get mad and burn your Bible the hundreds of presses would still go on printing it, and when you stop your paper and call the editor names it is still published, and, what is more, you will read it on the sly.” Particulars of the personnel of the scientific staff of Captain Scott’s Antarctic expedition have been received by Mr J. Allan Thomson, at present working in Sydney, who will accompany him as zoologist. The head of the scientific staff is Dr Wilson. His particular subject is vertebrates. The other members of the staff are Dr Simpson (magnetism and meterology), Mr C. S. Wright, Toronto, (magnetism, sea water physics, and ice), Mr IS. W. Nelson, Cambridge and Plymouth marine biological station (zoologist at shore station!, Mr D. G. Lillie, Cambridge University (zoologist on ship), Dr IS. L. Atkinson, R.N., bacteriology (parasitology and photo-zoology), Dr D. F. Griffith Taylor, an Australian graduate of Cambridge University (geologist), Mr J. Allan Thomson, New Zealand Rhodes scholar and exhibition scholar at Oxford, now working at Sydney University. Another Australian will probably accompany the expedition. Besides these, Captain Scott has secured the services of Mr Bernard Day, who went with Sir Ernest Shackleton as electrician, and who looked after the motor car.