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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 62, 12 August 1885, Page 4

On Rona, an island eqni distant •between the Butt of Lewis and Cape Wrath, a large flook of sheep is kept, to preserve which fronUhe deflations of the codfishers two shepherds are placed m charge. Last week the crew of a Ness smack visited them —no one having done so since last July — and found them both dead. From the large stock of provisions, and the appearance and position of of the bodies (both of which, had thier clothes on"), it is supposed that one the men died m the winter, and that the' other, not liking to bury the body or stay m tho hut, slep outside and perished from exposure. Some terridle romance, at all evnts, transacted ifselftheie, which seems fitter for the Arctic regions then for a locality within a few hours' sail of a scotch .town. Liverpool has a good local story of a tiger which escaped from a menagerie and terrified the suburbs for some hours. In one outlying district a man who had " los, the use of both legs " had set for 20 years — a study stunted vagrant, making a good thing 1 out of his professional profits the ro id where he had taken up his seat for a score of years was on the morn m «r 6f the tiger's escape a scene of fierce stampede. Down it poured pell mcll — men, women and children Mtfull speed, screaming with terror, and crying out «'. The tiger ! the. tiger ! " The cripple had heard the news of escape, and now fear lent him leg*, or i*estored his old limb*.; ho. started up. threw away the big bowl on which he sat doubled up every day, and, wil-h an energy which left nothing to be desired, he bounded clown the road, and soon outstripped all competitors. The ti.uer was cmight, but 'he " cripple " was never seen again— at least, m that nei»hbourhoob.