Exciting Tiger Adventure.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 216, 20 August 1887, Page 4

Exciting Tiger Adventure.

An exciting tiger adventure recently took .. place at the famous Kavlee Caves, between .. Bombay and Poona, so well known to • Anglo-Indians and to "globe-trotters," Two visitor?* to Khandalltt received rubber that a tiger was prowling about the neighbourhood, and they went in search of it. Whilst moving from one tree to another, bo • as to get a hotter \ iow, one of the sportsmen, Major Lyons of the Ordnance Department, caught sight of the object ot his search in the cave, leady to charge. The Major stopped forward and fired, lodging two bullets in the bcibt. The next moment the \\oundcd animal rushed upon Ma assail ant, savagely .seizing him by the leg, and carried, or rather dragged, him along the giound. Major Lyons retained sufficient presence of mind to apply the butt-end of his rilio to the tiger.-, head with all the vigour he could command. At first this had no effect, but about 200 yards, from the cave < ho .uiiinallofc go its hold. On being seized u .second lime, Major Lyons thru at hifc rifle into the mouth of the infuriated beast, "who immediately made oil with the wet.pon. Major Lyon.i'h leg v. as badly bitte::, and he .-.uttered a fccvete shock, but- otherwise ho was nol injnrlul, and when the I/i-t mail loft ho was in a fair way to recoveiy. Tin; tiger was .subsequently found dead. Ft mc;t>uied 1) fee., 2 inches by 3 feeb 5 inchr-. and was-, the bijrgest that had been <-een in thab portion of the Western Ghauts for many \ tars.