CHILDREN EATEN BY WOLVES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 66, 19 April 1881, Page 4

CHILDREN EATEN BY WOLVES.

■ •■ ,*.,^ It is certainly a little startling to hear, at thia advanced period ia the history of European cinilisation, that wolves are tbieatening large districts within hail of populous towns oo the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland. Such, hovrerpr. appears to be the fact,. and men are now, as in the . Middle Ages, sustaining a mortal combat with the wild beasts of the I forest. , A correspondent at Hango statex that eleven children have, during two months, been carried off by those: fetaoioua marauders, stealing down from the neighboring woods to the very , thresholds of th» peasants^ homes. .' Hfe challenge to English lovers of adventnrmis sport ia one that t»ay be taken up in earnest, the promise of excitement Wing more lLely to tempt keen spor>amen than the offer of a r«ward which has been placed by the Finnish authorities on the head of every wolf, killed or captured. Two kinds of dogs are indiqfrd, ,bjxm|.forrfßppfidentt aa^aioat aervieeable in wolf-hunting. These are sheep doga and bulldogs— the former, we Bup(H>s«, to drive the game and bring; it info a circle, and 'he latter to pull it down. Wolf-skins are handsome *rophies,and if some scores of English hearths should before 'he end of this winter be ornamented with such tokens of maply sport, it will enhance jhe value of these pictures? qu-> higi to know that everyone means the" removal from a Buffering peasantry of a cruel and deadly scourge.— London 'I elegraph.