WHAT IT COSTS TO SHOOT BIG GAME.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1254, 4 June 1914, Page 4

WHAT IT COSTS TO SHOOT BIG GAME.

New Zealand has its deershooting ; the Northern Territory offers something in the way of buffalo; and there are various kangaioo hunting grounds in New South Wales ; but for the most part Australasia has little to present in the nature of big-game sb oting Therefore, an article on the cost of making an excursion into the nearest big-game country —that is, Africa —and the method qnd procedure on arriving there, will be of interest to those of our readers whose ambitions lie in that direction.

Such an article appears in the June issue of “Life,” just to hand, and it is also of interest to general readers, for it describes the picturesque aspects of the country, and the prospects that lie in it for the trader and hunter. The author of the article —which is the first of three—is Mr G. E. Archer Russell, a well-known Adelaide man, who put in three strenuous years in mid-Africa. His photographs are excellent.

In the same issue of “Life” Dr. Henry O’Hara, the eminent Melbourne physician, gives the benefit of his inquiries during a recent trip to Europe into the value and prospects of radium in the treatment of cancer. His opinion is that radium is a very valuable handmaid of Surgery, and that its usefulness will be increased enormously in the near future. A well-known resident of New Guinea writes entertainingly on the Papuan as a devil-worshipper, and proves that right throughout the Archipelage there exists a much higher type of religion than the Papuans have been credited with.

The concluding chapters of Jack London’s serial, “The Valley of the Moon,” and a couple of excellent Australian mining stories, add interest to an exceptionally fine number of this popular magazine. “Life” for June is certainly an excellent sixpen’orth.