EXCITING SCENE AT A RACECOURSE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1122, 2 November 1883, Page 3

EXCITING SCENE AT A RACECOURSE.

All Uinhalla correspondent of the Civil n.n'd Miilary Gazette writes : “ Talking about the racecourse, a somewhat sensational event occurred there on the Ist ult. Two natives working in the field saw a leopard passing them, and seizing a lithi each, they sprang up and followed him. The leopard look refuge in an e upty cattle yard about 200 yard" off the racecourse, where ho was after assailed by a soldier in departmental einiioy (Gubin Works Department, I belie>e). who lived close by. The man procured his carbine and some cartridges, ami creeping up to a small wall crossing, ihe yard, looked over aod hail a shot at the leopaid, niissinr him The leopard was game, and went for his mao at once, Hying the wall (under which the soldier opportunely ducke I) and landing right on one of the other natives standing hy. However, his meal was not to his taste, and after mauling him a while he charged a go-down with open chessboard walls, and carrying away about a rood of it got inside. The soldier then went round to the other side, and peeping in through a somewhat larger hole than the squares, spied the leopard in a corner. But the game of “ peep,” fascinating as it is to the infant when performed from behind doors and boxes, has its drawbacks at times. It had in this case, for the leopard was .-pry, and at first ‘‘peep” nearly snatched his opponent’s nose off. However, to make a long story short, the carbine subsequently did its work, idle third shot going right the heart, ami hi ding the leopard at once He was a Hue animal, in splendid condi*. tion, measuring Gft 11 in. from nose to tip.