A BOAR HUNT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 355, 5 April 1910, Page 3

A BOAR HUNT.

AND A GREAT FIGHT. After all, it does not seem necessary to import wild animals into New Zealand for purposes of sport, for apparently some of the northern '"Captain Cooks" •upply all the excitement necessary. Two brothers named Deery, residing at Mataitai, in thy Cleve.aiul district (Auckland), lately met a boar "as long as a Shetland pony" in the bush. One brother carried a shot gun, and the other ft large-sized "Pampa" knife. They had six cattle dogs, all expert pig-dogs. One brother got a shot home at five yards range, but the charge seemed merely to tickle the brute, which bounded into the •air and departed. The brothers followed it and poured two further charges into it. Then the boy with the gun mounted a kauri tree stump and again fired. The boar charged, and a dog intervene'!. The dog is dead. Then the ammunition gave out. The brother with the knife rashed the pig, stabbing it vigorously, but the steel seemed tin against the thick hide of the monster. The boar rushed the fighter with the knife and the clever wielder jumped 011 the boar's back, stabbing away until the brute dislodged him. Then he got his back against a punga. The tree collapsed and the boar scored by driving a tusk into his enemy's leg. The dogs were left to' deal with the quarry. The injury was too great to permit of waiting and so the sound brother carried the wounded hunter for four miles over an unfajniliar bush track, arriving at Mataitai at 10 o'clock on a bad night. They had to drive many miles in rain and wind to Drury next day and there the •wounded man was sent by train to Auckland for surgical aid.