ENCOUNTER WITH WILD BOAR.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1921, Page 3

ENCOUNTER WITH WILD BOAR.

Messrs Harry and Graham Scott, of Wuiknri, had an unusual and distinctly exciting ex])erience while on their way to Mt. Virginia run on Tuesday On reaching the boundary gate, an old and very large wild boar emerged from the tussocks just through the fence, and instead of rushing away as nearly all wild pigs invariably do when the course is clear and they are not pursued, slowly approached the visitors, who had neither dogs nor firearms. The situation became far from pleasant, as the hordbs had become frantic through fear, and the Messrs Scott, being unable’ safely to turn the waggonette—the road at this part being on a hillside. had to hurriedly detach the horses from the xchicle and beat a retreat. Finding that neither their presence nor their shouting would induce the pugnacious brute to leave the vicinity of the gateway, Mr Graham Scott, by making a detour, rode to the homestead, which was about a mile distant for dogs and a butcher’s "knife. On his return he found that the boar bad pursued his brother quite a considerable distance back. The dogs now came on the scene, when the pig instantly turned at bay. Amongst their number wn#

n bure-bml bull dog, who at once sprang for an ear. but, missing bis ; ill ark "was tossed fully ten yards down | tbo hill-side. He however, luckily es- | raped a tusk thrust, and immediately ; returned to the attack, and this time j secured an ear, which he held with i characteristic tenacity until Mr Haiiv Scott came up and quickly despatched i the hoard with a knife, thus terminating a most interesting “hold-up” and removing from the public road a formidable and dangerous animal. The Messrs S f '°tt, who have done much pighunting. affirm--that they have never before known a wild boar to he so obdurately combative without provocation at, this one was.