FURTHER DETAILS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4458, 4 September 1909, Page 3

FURTHER DETAILS.

London, September 2. Lieutenant Shackleton, who is in London, and King Edward, who is in Marienbad, are highly interested in the Inspector’s message. The news startled London. The Times remarks the evidence is very incomplete, but has the appearance of bona fides, and Cook’s previous record must be taken seri. otifsly.

, A later message says that after the Hansegede’s departure yesterday it was stated at Lerwick that Dr. Cook merely reached the Magnetic Pole. If this is so the exploit is not remarkable, as Ross attained the Magnetic in 1836. Shackleton calculates that if the Pole itself was reached Dr. Cook covered 483 miles in 35 days. Paris, September 2:

The Paris editor of the “New York Herald ’* has commenced publishing details of the early stages of Dr. Cook’s journey. The party left Annatoh on February 19th with 11 men, 103 dogs, and 11 sledges and started to cross the Polar Sea on March 18th from Leiberg Island. At that date some of the Esquimaux with a number of dogs and supplies of food returned.