THE SOUTH POLE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10578, 8 March 1912, Page 5

THE SOUTH POLE

REPORTED TO BE REACHED BY CAPTAIN SCOTT. (Received Last Night, 8.50 o'clock.) SYDNEY, March 7. A private wire received at Sydney reports that Captain Scott has reached the South Pole. Professor David, interviewed, said that the report was what everyone ■was hoping to hear, and what seemed a very likely contingency, but at the same time it was strange that no offi- • cial confirmation had been made through Captain Scott's .London agent ■or from Kinsey at Christ-church. CAPTAIN SCOTT'S ARRIVAL J.. THE POLE. QUESTIONED BY PROFESSOR DAVJD. (Received This Morning, 12.5 o'clock. SYDiNEY, March 7. Professor David, comparing the time the news of Captain Scott's alleged discovery of the South Pole was aeceived at Hobart, says that if Hobart was the first telegraphic port at which the Fram calied, it seems impossible that Captain Scott's report •could have come from the Fram. It. of course, is possible that Captain Ammundsen himself has reached the Pole. THE FRAM. ARRIVAL AT HOBART. (Received Last Night, 6.55 o'clock.) SYDNEY, March 7. The Fram, with-Cjaptain Amundsen on board, has arrived at Hobart from tho Antarctic. CAPT. AMUNDSEN RETICENT. PENDING A CABLE FROM NORWAY. (Received Last Night, 8.5 o'clock.) ' HOBART, March 7. :. The Fpam. arrived, this afternoon.; Afreet of launches gave* the vessel a welcome. Permission to board the Fram was refused,''and .later Oapt. Amundsen landed, and proceeded to the Norwegian Consulate. He h-as absolutely declined to give any information regarding the expedition to interviewers until he has received a reply from a cable he sent to Norway. CABLE RECEIVED BY MR J. J. KINSEY. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) GHRISTOHUROH, Last Night. Mr J. J. Kinsey, representative in Xew Zealand .for Captain Scott's Antarctic expedition, received late tonight the following private cable from Sydney:— "Papers report that Captain Ammundsen telegraphed privately from Hobart that Captain Scott reached the South Pole." This is the only communication Mr Kinsey has received.