TIGERS ARE DEAR TO-DAY.

North Otago Times, 1 November 1906, Page 2 (Supplement)

TIGERS ARE DEAR TO-DAY.

A good Nubian lion is worth £2OO, a Senegal specimen little more than half this sum. A line tiger is also worth about £'2oo,

Jn Bengal, where the most beautiful and largest tigers are trapped, there is a Government bounty paid on each, for tlicmnmial mortality in India through tigers and snakes—chiefly cobras—is something appalling. The long-haired Chinese and berian tigers bring as much as poo and other very valuable varieties come from Persia and Russian Turkestan.