"LIFE."

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8103, 24 March 1906, Page 5

"LIFE."

It is pretty generally known that during the last twelve months the Hon. J. G. Aikman, M.L.C., of Melbourne, has made some thousands of pounds out of the wrecked "Australia." whioh he bought at auotion for £350. In the Maroh issue of "Life" Mr Aikman tells how he came to buy the wreck, what he gave for it, and—approximately—what he got out of it. It makes a romantic story, is finely illustrated with a number of excellent photographs taken on and about the wreck by Mr W. E. Somerset, and will be supplemented next month by the diver's account of the salvage operations. In the same issue of "Life" Dr Fitohett continues his fine series uf articles on India, and relates in picturesque, telling phrase the story of the Taj at Agra. A prominent authority on Fiji oarries on the story of the colonisation of the islaods, and makes some striking comparisons between conditions of early and later Fiji. A welcome contribution is a bright, breezy article by George Horace Lorimer, author of the "Self-Made Merchant's Letters to His Son." Mr _ Lorimer, who is something of a philosopher, tells who the self-made man is. and gives some genial advice thereon. The whole magazine is bright and informative, and keeps well up to its standard.