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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 51, 25 March 1909, Page 2

BACK FROM ANTARCTICA. Although we know t-iiat the Nimrod is about to cast anchor in Lyttclton Harbor, and has brought back the expedition all well and successful, it may to the great .majority of our readers be inexplicable that the first authentic news

of the doings of the assailants of the South' Pole comes from London, vide this morning's cable news. As a matter of fact, authentic news of the result of

the expedition, towards which New Zealand contributed £IOOO, will not be known until a London newspaper lias received a safe monopoly. The Daily Mail secured beforehand the dirst rights of Lieutenant tthackleton's report, and presumably the message was landed at the Bluff from Stewart Island, and was published yesterday in Loudon. In all probability the historic story of tfle expedition will be available to New Zealanders on the arrival of the Nimrod at Lyttelton to-day, after wto days of cage" waiting. This morning's London message, however, relating baldly the story of tile scaling of the grim sentinel of Antarctica, Mount Erebus, and the dash for the South Pole, gives a foretaste of the record of adventure and "achievement that will soon be available. Evidently the conquest of the iceguarded Pole still lies in the future, but the scientific exploration work of the I expedition, it may be taken for granted, has added considerably to the world's knowledge of the land of the Aurora.^