IN NEW ZEALAND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 227, 13 February 1913, Page 5

IN NEW ZEALAND.

SUPREME COURT ADJOURNED. Christchurch, Wednesday. When the Supreme Court opened this morning, Air. Justice Denniston. addressing the Court, said:. "I feel it impossible to step into public, business, however important, straight from reading the story in the words of the dead man's letter of Captain Scott's party. Jt has once more been shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great fortitude as ever in the past." The Judge then adjourned the court till the afternoon. LIEUTENANT BRUCE. Dunedin, Wednesday. Lieutenant Bruce, R.N.R., brother of Captain Scott's widow, is one of the exploring party who returned by the Terra Nova. PUBLIC MEETING IN WELLINGTON. Wellington, Last Night. A public meeting passed the following resolution: "This nueting expresses profound sorrow at the disaster that has befallen the Antarctic, expedition under Commander Scott, in the deatli of its brave leader and four companions, and desires to convey to Mrs. Scott and the wives and relatives of the others who so heroically laid down their lives in the interests of science, its sincere sympathy at the irreparable loss they have sustained."

A MESSAGE TO THE PRIME MINISTER. , Manton, Last Night. \ The Prime Minister has received the following from the editor of the Telegraph, London:---"Responding to Captain Scott's appeal, the Telegraph will open to-day a national Scott Memorial, Fund, and the editor would 'welcome a message commending the fund to public support." The Prime Minister replied: "I feel confident that Captain Scott's dying appeal will meet with a generous response from the citizens of the Empire, and that adequate provision will be forthegming for the wives and families of the brave men who have lost their lives for the glory of the British, flag, and who have gone to their deaths in a manner worthy of the best traditions of our race. New Zealand shares, in the universal regret." Mr. Massey also requested the Governnor to send a cable to the Secretary of State, expressing the sympathy of the Government and the people.