A STRANGE ANIMAL SHOT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1544, 25 January 1887, Page 4

A STRANGE ANIMAL SHOT.

A lingular osptnra was made at Waipawa on Tuesday evening January 4. About 7.15 p.m. Florence Smith, daughter of Mr A. W. Smith, who resides on the Waipawa rirer tide, in passing up the garden path saw a strange snimaJ, running swiftly' towards the house followed by the dog, and climb up a willow tree near the doorway and lodge these. On acquainting her brother he fetched hit sun, fired it, and diilodged the animal, which sprang from the tree and retired to the thicket. Soma three noun later the dog, whioh had kept on the look- out, ■gain saw and chased it, with succeis," for if zing it a fierce conflict oconrerd, and ulti. mately the boy secuted the prize and killed it. A correspondent of the Napier News describes the animal as follows: "The body was about 24 inches long from the forehead to root of tail, the latter H inoties long, bare on the iniido like a ring-tailed monkey'i, body nearly iquare but flattisb, large pocket like the kangaroo, head short, with good ipiead, in shape like a fox's face, not at all ferooioui but rather mild looking, ears short, two long bottom teeth like a rat'i, with two short onea at the top, body oovered with plenty of fine fur iTeraging 1} inoh, of brown color, both/fore and hind legs of, equal length, about 3 inchei, fore feet comprising olawa only, but hind feet consisted of four claws and a projection without a daw like a thumb, adapted lor holding on to branchci, is is the tail. 'To prero'nt'miicohceptibns, the animal - w,as bleeding when I- saw it, and it bad caught its tongue between its teeth. Mr Smith was proposing to cure and stuff the skin after I had seen it as a reriflcation. Wo hare no wild quadrupedi in these.parti, and 11 shall be glad if Mr Bowerraan or other of the learned members of your Philosoph.oal Society can tell us what it is. Meantime it is neither a kangaroo nor an opoiium." It 18 Wobth a Tbiaii—"l was troubled for many years with kidney oomplaint, gravel, &0,, my bl od bocame thin, I was dull and inaolire, could hardly criwl abuut, and wiaan old worn out man all over, and rouH gst nothing to holp mo until I g'jt Amrriow Co'« flop Btttero, and no* v\j Hood end kidutyi ate all ri^hf>, ami I a-;i us aofiys as a man ol thirty I a u teventy-two, and I hare no doubt it. w-Al do as well for others of mr »gs» I* " worth the trial."—(Fa'.her). Njtioe Adrs.