LION AT LARGE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 31, 31 October 1919, Page 7

LION AT LARGE

A NEW SOUTH WALES SENSATION. . A real live lion has mado its appearance on the ranges and gullies in the mountainous country between Fitzroy and Belmore waterfalls, in New South Wales.

Some of' the local sportsmen claim to have seen it. and there is no one more pronounced as to the identity of the beast than Air. Sid Shepherd, of Bowral. He was one of a party that was out shoolinc the other day, and leaving his gun in the motor-car was going down a cully in the vicinity of tho look-out for water to boil the billy, when he saw, about'forty yards distant, what ho emphatically asserts was a lion. He says he was in a liosition to obtain a very fine uew of the animal, and he. drew a sketch of it as it appeared to him. He called a companion, Air. Ewan M'Rae, who joined him, also unarmed, and by whistling endeavoured to attract, the attention of Air. Englebert, another member of tin; party. Tho king of the forest.then rose on its haunches and assumed what was regarded as an attitude of attack. The three sportsmen secured th?ir ciin;. lmt during their absence the animal disappeared.

Other residents also claim In have seen the lion, and it :s also reported that larsre slock have been mysteriously killed in the locality visited by it.