The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1914. A TRUE AUSTRALASIAN MAGAZINE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 January 1914, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1914. A TRUE AUSTRALASIAN MAGAZINE.

iiii-: Tebruary issue oi' Lilt' is the most widely representative number of this popular Australasian magazine we haw seen. Tin frontispiece depicts a series oi a.dventines with a kangaroo on a way back station m Saw South Wales; a railway president, in a stirring sketch, shows how the breakdown gang railway system works; Mr A. Li. L. iLattingley, the Premier Nature protographei oi' Australia, outlines in a, succession oi wonderful pen and cam-era-pictures the life-story of tin penguin; Hr Carlyle Smytlit writes a vigorous article on Australia as a colonising ]>ower, and au anonymous writer criticise? lively (he administration of the -Northern Territory. l)r. Titchett handles the political history of Australia and New Zealand fo"i < lie past month in masterly fash;un. J lie instalment of Jack •'iOiidon's serial story, "'The Valley of the Jioon," deals with tin. ad ven tares of a couple who arc 'seeking to iind a home on tin. kind, and the lessons they learn in the search apply with equal force io this country and its inhabitants, as to America and the Americans. Of what might be called the outside Features of Life, the • Musi notable this month are i tine review of the story of Scott'.' journey to the South Tolc, published by Smith, Hitler and Co.. and an unusual oiler in connection with Captain Amundsen'? proposed drift to the North Pole Captain Amundsen, m order It augment the funds necessary 1< equip this expedition, has persuaded the postal authorities o' the world to consent to the issue of special post cards, which wik be taken to the North Pole, then stamped with a special postmark. j and posted to any person in ain j part oi' the world who cares to pa\ I - (id for the privilege. The pub- ' Usher of Life and Kverylady*> j ■Journal has been asked to' take j charge of those post cards which I are allotted Io Australia, and the\ I arc offered to readers at "2* tU I each.