Au Extraordinary Story.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 206, 11 June 1887, Page 4

Au Extraordinary Story.

Here is an extraordinary story,, vhe ©vents of which, we are told, occurred GJity a few months ago, and caused quite, a sensation in India: -In a certain plaajbwig district there was a notorious matt,-c&cei\ Two gentlemen, we will call tJKsn A. and 8. , residing together on, an estate, had lost, beside some other employees, two u chowkedars/' or native watchmen, within a few clays, and the unfortunate men had been actually carried off out of the "verandah of the bungalow. A and B. therefore determined to clothe themselves like natives, and sit during the night, armed, in the veraudah, in the hopes that they might bo- able to get a shot at the man-eater,, v/ho they thought might probably return to the spot which had already provided him with two victims. They proceeded to carry out this intention, and sat xip till about two or three o'clock a.m., but nothing appeared. A. then said he should not stay tip any longer, as he did not believe the animal would, come : but B. announced his intention of;' waiting half-an-hour longer by himself.. There were large windows opening down iwt the floor of the verandah, and through one of these A. retired, and, aSter entering his room, had just closed tho window, and was gazing out fo*- an instant, when he saw a dark mass land* in the verandah, right on to his friond, then* heard sounds of ascutHe, and a cryforhelp.. Seizing his rtfie, to which a sword-bayo&et was attached, and flinging up the window, he rushed out, in time to see B. walking down the steps that led up to the verandah from the garden alongside of the tigepwifh Ms hand in the latter' s mouth ! A. was afraid to fire lest he should hit his friend, so, running; after him, he with admirable presenca of mind, went up to the tiger, ancl plunging his bayonet into the animal body, at the same instant fired. There was a roar and a scuttle, and B. took advantage of the moment to release his; hand, and the tiger, after tumbling abowb for a moment or two, died. B. s hand, was terribly mauled.,

Miss Florence Wade and Henry Alleyne are in 'Jft'isco. a local paper says they arrived from Honolulu, where they gave % short but unsatisfactory comedy season,