LION HUNTING.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 304, 22 December 1903, Page 2

LION HUNTING.

AS AUCKLANDER'S ADVENTURES. A young Aucklander, William George Whittington, has had a rather adventurous and peculiar experience in South Africa, lie was a volunteer in the New Zealand Fifth Contingent, and was in active service during the Boer war. He was not wounded, but was laid up with enteric of a severe form three times. After the war he fell upon very bad times, and his money running out, he went up north hunting for lions and leopards with Captain Adam McAdams. They had the luck to kill two full grown lions and some leopards, and then encountered a lion and lioness with three cubs. Whittington got two of the cube and his mate one, with which they succeeded in reaching Bulawayo. They sold the cubs for £ 60, much less than could have been obtained at JohaJinesburg or the Cape, but the risk of losing them from some of the prevalent animal epidemics induced the cap tors to make the best bargain they couid, and not take any further risk. Whittingcon says in his letter: "I came here, hearing such a lot about Johannesburg, but I am sorry now. There are thousands out of work here, many starving, and eager to get away, and every place from Salisbury to Capetown is the same." Whittington sends to his mother a splendid photograph of himself with .his two cubs, one under eat'h arm, and ihese will be reproduced in the next number of the "Graphic."