A MURDEROUS ELEPHANT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2385, 28 August 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

A MURDEROUS ELEPHANT.

Aterriblo elephant story comes from '• ' ; India (remarks the St Janios' Budget). ' ■ It appears that on'the morning of tho ■ 1 ' Bth April last, while an elephant was boing ridden by its keepor on] tho district of Sultanpore, in Oude, the animal resented "prodding 1 with a spear by pulling the man from his back and throwing him some distance away. Fortunately the man fell in a hollow, and remained thero ' undiscovered by the olophant, who went to a neighbouring village. There ho chased an old man into a tiouso, then 'broke down the walls, pulled the man out, and dashed him to pieces. The '.same night the elephant knocked down loveral housos in quest of human beings • in the villages of Sardarpur, Bargaon and Jaisingpur. He killed six mon in Berso- ' ■.in a, throe in Sota, four in Gangeo, and four in Mardan. Ho likowiao ' V killed a bullock, and a pony and ' also completely destroyed a new carriage. The animal used to stand at the door of a " ' ' house, force his entry by demolishing tho *alls on either side, and would then kill as many of tho inmates as he could, pursuing othora who tried to run away. Ho mangled the corpses terribly. After securing a victim he sometimes returned to tho spot to see if lifo was extinot, and £'d commence mutilating tho bodies h. He carried sevoral bodies long distances and threw them into ravines, eto. The olephant found his way to the Dehra Rajah's palace, whore ho tried to enter the nouse of a gardener; but some men, mounted on three elephants, assisted by spearmen drove him off. Ho then returned to Bebipur, whore ho tried to break down his master's house, in which several persons had taVen refuge, Ho was then killed.

Tho Melbourne Argus correspondent, writing of tho Exhibition .says" Now Zealand, from a botanical point of view, has reserved her energies. She has certainly not wasted anything in ffisthe* tical fooling. Tho screen painted, with native flowers, exhibited by Miss Harris, of Nelson, is almost the sole reminder that New Zealand does possess flowers. True,under tho heading of 'Horticulture," Mr J. D, Euys has a class all to himself by his exhibit of Raoulia, better known,perhaps, as the ' Vegetable Sheep,' on account of it growing in large, white tufts on olovated sheep runs, where it is often mistaken for sheep. It is a Yeiy remarkable plant, a member of the cosmopolitan natural order composite, and nearly allied to our European ' ovorlasting flowers' (Gnaphajium). Of eourse, there aro endless exhibits of New Zealand woods; and a somewhat feeble show; of preserved vegetables and fruit, the best coming from Auckland growors. Hats wade from native fabrics are shown in one or two instances; and there are a ■ few ferns mounted on them, but there is little to give the specialist any knowledgo of the wonderful vestitation of.tho islands of New Zealand. There is a marvellous contrast in this respect between tho New Zealand and the Indian Courts, A vegetarian cynic might almost complain that the, New Zealand Carnophagists had left the products'of their vegetable kingdom out on purpose."