DO IT BETTER AND SAVE THE a MEW AND DOES N'OT SHRINKotesjrf News* WO new Antarctic Expeditions (to the South Pole) are now in irsc of formation, one English and other German in its origin.\j I E U T.-COL. L. W. LONG-AFF, a retired merchant prince of mbledon, and a gentleman cnthu-alically interested in geographicalcovery, has endowed the first with ;ift of £25,000, stg. The Iioyal □graphical Society gives £15,000 re.ME German scheme is under the it auspices of the Berlin Geogra-cal Society and the Berlin Char-tenburg branch of the German Cowind changed suddenly, and twlt;three days of N.E. winds fastened down again with the great white bTHE foggy and drizzly weal!which has thus ensued, has greiinterfered with those desirous of ing some outside work. Mes Hodge, Earle and Scott are mallt; necessary repairs to their coasl and fishing crafts.THE new lobster packers are wlt; ing hard at their traps. In refere to this subject, we may only corrc rate the statements of 44 From ChaIslands 9 which appeared not 1 ago in the Evening Telegram.A ROBBERY has been commit at Barr d Islands; but as we have ccived no definite particulars, we leave it for later on.TIIE topsail schooner Laddie been reported abandoned in the ic Fermeuse a few days ago. Laddie was a staunch little cr built in Fogo a few years ago John Dalton, the well-known builc