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Lyttelton Times, Volume II, Issue 98, 20 November 1852, Page 11

" A Tiger Story.—The following remarkable escape has been mentioned in private letters by ' - the last mail from India. , Two young officers —Lieutenant Hugh Elliott, and Lieutenant Rfce n of,the2sth —were outshooting, when they fell in with a tigress and two cubs. One cub ', was immediately killed, and the tigress wounded. tracked her for half an hour into the ; { '-)ungle, when she suddenly sprang out, knocked ' over Mr. Elliott before he had time to cock his " gun, and, seizing him by the left arm, dragging /him away. Mr. Rice had already discharged • , one gun when they attacked the tigress. He ' quickly got his second gun, but, from the ex- ; treme difficulty of firing without killing his • friend, could only aim at the body of the tigress, and though lie wounded her again, did not wound her mortally. With admirable resolution he then seized a third gun, and watching his opportunity till he could see Elliott's head apart from that of the tigress, shot her dead through the head, with his friend in her mouth. The officers were thirty miles from camp, and did not reach it for twenty hours, It is impossible to give too much credit to the skill arid coolness of Lieutenant Rice. Mr. Elliot's arm is badly wounded by the bite, as well as by the stones and rocks over which he was dragged, but no fear is entertained for his life or his limb.