He is restive under monotony.

He sets aside a great part of his life for sport.

He lives in a large and young day of the world.

Here we may see a remote picture of our own American West--better, as it seems to me, than that reflected in the rapid and wholly commercialized development of Western Canada, which is not flavored by any age but this.
But much of the frontier of Australia is occupied by men of means who had behind them government aid and a semi-paternal encouragement in their adventures.

The same is true in part of the government-fostered settlement of Western Canada.