Rhinoceroses

When a privileged correspondent asked Edward of Wales, last week, whether he would hunt rhinoceroses, H. R. H. launched into chatty discussion of a topic now hotly debated between white huntsmen in Africa.

Rhinocerophiles are urging strictest "word of honor" observance of the rhinoceros season. When two rhinoceroses were shot, out of season, in South Africa last fortnight, a terrific hue and cry was raised to protect the "noble game."

Far different is the view of rhinocero-phobes (including most Afric blacks and many a white non-sportsman). They hold that the "noble game" is now so numerous as to seriously menace Afric agriculture, in certain districts, by persistently trampling down crops.

Clearly Edward of Wales must be prepared to sit in informal judgment upon the great, sporting issue of Rhinocerophobes v. Rhinocerophiles. It was unthinkable that he himself should shoot a rhinoceros out of season.