LIONS HINDER SETTLEMENT.

Otaki Mail, 12 September 1923, Page 3

LIONS HINDER SETTLEMENT.

Tne diificulties in administering the Tanganyika territory are emphasised in ‘tie official report for 102 ii, which dwells on the increase of pig game arid states lions have retained their taste lor human flesh acquired during the war. ITieir boldness in incredible. Whole villages are terrorised and their extermination by specially trained native trappers is most dimcult as they conceal themselves in tlic* dense bnsh in tire day time and raid the villages at night. Sixty-seven people were killed in the Tabora district alone. Rewards were paid for throe hundred lions and eight hundred teopards' Killed during trie first half of the year. Elephants and elami are most destructive to crops. Eland j are particularly fond of cotton. The report regrets that jealous rivalry among the Christian missions in erthin districts is resulting in undignified competition and the bewilderment of the natives and urged the Christian societies to recognise the i principle of spheres of influence. > which will profit Christianity equally j with pagans. 1 Owing io warn of tribal cohesion the chiefs lack control of their sub- j jects a? the old tribal organisation j was destroyed in the process of estab- i lishing German "authority. Numerous ! pet tv headmen sprang up. command-' ing'little respect. The Administration's policv of restoring ihe authority of the rightful paramount chiefs is showing pleasing results. The report, alluding to the efforts to stamp out witchcraft, says meaicine men are chiefly responsible for infanticide, which is still J? r y,' al s L among the W’apar mbe They des trov children afflicted with .the ,iit,dest‘ abnormality fcv suffocation, poisoning or starvation, because tne mnrtiS e mon declare such children. are imbir’-v The W'aohagga end Wazigna n'it.os; iilive abandoned these abominations. and i‘ 'upped the W'apars will shortly follow their example. ■' (Tahganvika was formerly German Past \frica. It has a population of 7 660.000 natives, 15.000 other coloured people and 5500 whites. It is traversed bv a railwav '750 miles) from the port of Dar-es-Salaam to Ujiii on Tanganyika!.