NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4400, 20 April 1909, Page 2

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The “ Teiritorial Sarvice Gazette” of February 10th, 1909. coutainei the following paragraph:—‘‘Owing to the success of Cadet Color-Sergeant Win. R. Frijr’s visit to the Moth r

CADETS AT BlSi.i Y

Country in 1988, it has been decided to invite ten cadets fio« New Zealand

some from Canada, and some from Austi alia. Hospitality will be forthcoming from th-j English boys to these cadets on the ranges and in the playing fL Ids. from July to 'September. The irost cherished of the city of London are educational progress and the exercise of wise hospitality. '1 his, ‘Lord Roberts’ boys ’ will attempt to carry out again in 1909, with the help of all schoolboys in the Mother Country. ” In connection with this matter, Major Robb wrote to Sir Joseph Ward asking the Government’s intention iu the matter, and although the reply was not a favourable one, an attempt will (says the “ New Zealand Herald”) be made by the Onehunga people to send at least one cadet to complete at Bisley th’.s year. ... ...

The Antarctic expedition has returned from the South Pole The sc entific exploration of this immense frozen portion of the earth has been a series of perils by

The South Pole

land and sea, and the i luck and perseverance that carried the Nimrod’s

party of di-c very so much nearer the objective of these repeated expeditions is splendid testi' uiony of its unselfishness to the cause of science. When this new narrative of adventures is officially published it will supply another budget of valuable information concerning the vast solitary regions of the icy South that will create astonishment at the success of the expedition in the hard-fro;en frowning face of such discouraging difficulties, and i • pel unqualified admiration for the bravery that went so near to the goal of accomplishment. The-e hardy pioneers, who take their 1 lives in their hands and fearlessly go into the frozen solitudes of the utmost parts of the earth to explore them for the benefit of humanity, are heroes in the best acceptation of the word. .They aVe ennobled by the grandeur of their work of communion with ermine-robed nature in the immensity of her snow carpeted plains with their pinnacled cathedrals of glistening white—peaceful envoys of her Antarctic kingdom in the interests of geographical and scientific advancement.