A Bull Hunt.

Manawatu Herald, 3 September 1904, Page 3

A Bull Hunt.

There Was work for a toreador in Grafton Road, Auckland, on Monday, says the Herald. Most of the essentials of a bull fight in SUnuy Catalonia Was there a turquoise I sky, darling sunlight, three horse- ! men well mounted, an interesting audience, and a bull. El Toro was intended for the north, and was accordingly being taken on board the steamer Muritai, when he broke I away, dashed up the wharf, on to ' the * railway lines, helter-skelter among the locomotives, scattered a gang of platelayers, picks, shovels and all; then on towards the bridge crossing the Strand, down the Embankment, over the barbed Wires, down into Stanley Street bn to Grafton road, With men, dogs, and horsemen at his heels. On the way the bull met a cyclist, and paced him. It was a merry race while it lasted, and the bull seemed to have got the best of it, just when the cyclist gave a turn to his handle bars, and dexterously steered aside to let him pass. In Grafton Road the three horsemen haired the way, but the bull fixed his eye Upon the middle horse, gave a wicked look, and up Went his tail and down went his head. The horseman pulled the offrein and let him pass. By this | time there was a fairly large audience - behind fences in Grafton Road, and they appeared to thoroughly enjoy a scene so full of Spanish colour and incident. Then a a couple of men went very quietly up to El Toro, while, nose in air, he was thinking what to do next, and they grabbed the rope already round his horns, and hitched him up to a telegraph post, where he waited until sent for, and Grafton Road lapsed from an exciting plaza toro into its wonted peaceful respectability. No one was hurt, but the bull was cut about the legs with barbed wire.