A TERRIBLE ENCOUNTER.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 286, 24 July 1873, Page 6

A TERRIBLE ENCOUNTER.

The following account of an encounter between a man and an infuriated bullock at Wellington, is narrated by the morning journal of that city : — " A young man named Gustave Worker, one of the mailmen, while assisting in a stockyard to get a bullock into position for slaughter, was charged by the animal, and received severe injuries. The beast, having perhaps an instinctive perception of his own impending fate, obstinately resisted, and baffled every effort to force him to the destined spot Walker, with tbe spirit and impulse of youth, urged, him rather boldly, upon which the bullock, mad with rage, dashed fiercely at him, goring him very badly. Having knocked down the youth and trampled on him, the furious beast inflicted a deep wound in the inner part of his right thigh, and drove a horn from the right arm-pit clean through the shoulder, tearing open about four iacjbes of the flesh, and leaving a frightful wound that exposes the tendons of the arm. The infuriated beast did not or could not withdraw his horn, and now carried the poor fellow hooked on to it about the yard. Walker, with great presence of mind, tried to rescue himself from so terrible a position by clutching the fence ; but the bullock, without an effort, tore him from it, and dashed him to the ground. There were but few present, and as the attack was as sudden as it was fierce, no immediate assist* ance could be afforded. Walker is a fine vigorous young fellow — a native. He displayed extraordinary coolness during the attack, and bears his injuries with remarkable firmness and buoyancy."

A London journal thus winds up a review of Mr Trollope's very feeble and almost worthless work on the Southern Colonies : "South Australia and Western Australia are comparatively uninteresting Colonies, having all their history in the future. As to New Zealand, Mr Trollope approves of the local opinion that it is the 'cream of the earth. ' It is ' a happy land to which all goed things have been given,' which wants only one thing -population — to make it another Britain in the Southern Sea. In fact, the general impression which the English reader will gather after reading these two volumes will be of pride at the glorious heritage which lies for Englishmen in these beautiful lands of the South — of wonder at their marvels of nature, of admiration *t the courage and enterprise which, under all difficulties, have made them a portion of the British domain, and perhaps of shame at the little care this most imperial, but most parochial of races has taken to preserve this glorious prize to this posterity,"