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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 248, 30 April 1866, Page 3

j. In two compartments, one above the r other, of a caravan at Manders's menagerie, x now exhibiting at Liverpool, a leopard. [. and a hyaena were recently confined — the former in the lower and the latter in the 3 upper compartment. During a recent I night, the hyaena tore up the floor of his J T cage so as to be able to get his head k through. It would then appear that the 3 leopard beneath seized it by the throat, and a terrific struggle ensued. The noise \ alarmed the watchman, and Mr Manders . and others came, to the spot. It was then , found that the leopard had pulled the 5 hyaena t hrough the floor, and so tenacious . was its hold that, although Mr Manders freely used a heavily-loaded riding-whip •- on its head -and shoulders, the hyaena was r quite dead when at last the leopard- was P beaten off. , b During dessert a bottle of Constantia ■ was produced, which for age and flavor ; was supposed to be matchless. It was • liquid gold in a crystal flagon, a ray of > the sun descending into a goblet, it was ; nectar which was worthy of Jove, and in I which Bacchus would have revelled. The \ noble head of the House of Eussell , ■j himself helped his guest to a glass of r this choice wine, and De 'Grraininont on , tasting it declared it to be excellent, s The J3uke of Bedford, anxious to judge of its quality, poured out a glass, which no sooner approached his lips than, with a horrible contortion, he exclaimed, " Why, ■ what on earth is this?" The butler approached, took the bottle applied it to his nostrils, and to the dismay of his master pronounced it to be castor-oil ! — Drafts on my memory , by Lord ~W~. P. Lennox.