THE NIMROD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 56, 31 March 1909, Page 3

THE NIMROD.

PROFESSOR DAVID SPEAKS. PRAISE FOR CAPTAIX EVAN'S. Received 31, 0.30 a.m. Sydney, March 30. Professor David, speaking at an enthusiastic gathering at the University, paid a high tribute Lieut. Shackleton and Captain Evans, K.N. He especially praised the latter's fine seamanship, stating that, after Providence, they all owed their lives largely to the captain of the Nimrod.

PROFESSOR DAVID WELCOMED HOME.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Sydney, March 30.

Notwithstanding the early hour of the Jlaheno's arrival, a large gathering of friends ami undergraduates gave Professor David a rousing welcome. An official welcome has been arranged for a later day. *"•

' FUTURE EXPLORATIONS. LIEUTENANT SHACKLETOX INTERVIEWED. Wellington, Last Night. Lieutenant Shaekleton says he lias made no arrangements for another expedition, but if ever he does, it will be from the Falkland Islands and South Americift About this side nearly all worth knowing is now known. It is the other side that is unexplored. He had no intention at present of lecturing in Australia, but it was not unlikely that he would do so at Home. He intended to leave New Zealand on April 15. During the day he called oil the Premier and thanked him for the assistance rendered by the Government. He informed Sir Joseph that the Dominion stamps presented by the Government were lodged in a cylinder and left at the "furthest south" part.

LECTURE BY LIEUT. SHACKLETON. Wellington, Last Night. Lieut. Shackleton will deliver a lecture in Wellington, on April 14th. THE XIMROD'S VOYAGE. NOTES FROM THE LOG. The dogs with the expedition kept in wonderful trim all the time, and they have returned ia greater force by the addition of several litters of healthy puppies.

A live Adelae penguin has been brought to New Zealand on the Nimrod. It was one of the pets on the vessel on the voyage from Antarctica.

The motor-ear will be taken to England when the Nimrod goes Home. Several specimens of fish caught : n Antarctic waters will be presented to Air. E. R. Waite, curator of the Canterbury Museum. The members of the expedition praise Captain Evans' handling of the Nimrod very highly. The men, say they were in a state bordering on mild panic at the prospect of being frozen in for the winter, but the "skipper" knew what he was about, and "pulled the % ship out of the hole" in fine style. "We got the whole bdx of tricks," was the expressive way in which one 01 the sailors described the results of the expedition. The "farthest south," the ascent oi Mount Erebus, and the location of the magnetic pole, constitute a trio of brilliant records of which everyone has reason to be proud.

Most of the members of the Nimrod expedition look a little thin and worn as the result of their year of plain living, hard work, and high thinking. Lieutenant Sbackleton himself, however, is an exception. He seems to have prospered physically in the Far South.