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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume V, Issue 211, 9 January 1865, Page 3

Caeeied away by a Tigee. —At 9 o’clock a. in., on the 24th of September, a Malay named Ningut, with four others, three men and one woman, all Malays, left Campoong Elan, which is situated en the right bank of the Sirangoon river, distant about a inile from tne oirangoon Station, ITo. S, and entered the jungle to cut wood at a place called Sungie Siloo. While they were engaged in cutting wood a tiger sprang out of the jungle, seized the man named Ningul, and was walking awap with him. The others on seeing this gave chase, and pursued the tiger for about a mile, when the animal threw his victim down, and ran away. The Malays, on going to pick the man up, found that life was extinct. The Dufiadars of of Stations If os. 2 and 3, Sirangoon, proceeded to Campoong Elari to examine the body of deceased, when they observed that the neck was broken, and impressions of the tiger’s claws visible on different parts of, the body of deceased, —Sf raffs Tims.