A GREAT SPORTSMAN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14322, 12 October 1910, Page 5

A GREAT SPORTSMAN.

One qualification which tho Duke of Connaught has to commend him to South Africans whom he is visiting a* woll ns to Britons in every pnrt of the world, is that he is a famourt Bports'man. Ho has lately returned from East Africa, where for the sooond time lie appeared as a hunter of big game. Nothing gives him greater ploasuro than these visits to the wilds m search of adventure, and his delight, as well as his success, is shared liy the. Duchess of C'onnniight. who is a keen sportswonvin and a sniemlid shot. Tf £ TV: nee of the Koyai House had the liberty of private individual his Royal Highness wnuhl have liiiiiicd his activities to sport and soldiering, for l'n thnso he recognises his true metier. But the conditions oT his hlrrh have •iirionset! imon 1 \'-:rs duties in oilier spheres, nnti '.*> tho discharge of those duties ho has displayed conspicuous nbilit'es n.nd nlite'fish patriotism. No stronger proof of the?i> qualities and of ll's artivn temnernnie.nt rnn'd lie found than in his resignation of tlie Mediterranean command. At Malta ho hnd a sirieeure to whii-h were attached hotlf dignity and emolument. and he hnd the conscience and eouratro to abandon it and to giro his reasons.—" Daily Mail."