BESIEGED BY BEARS.
The official journal of the Government of Ohuietz reports that the district of Welikogub is regularly blockaded by boars. In five villages tho inhabitants do not dare to venture beyond the boundaries. Although not more than 100 miles from St. Petersburg, thedistrict is encompassed by primreval forest, stretching hundreds of versts in every direction. Here bears seem to have formed a regular settlement. They form groups of seven or eight, and descending into the cultivated patches, attack tho horses and horned cattle, reducing die peasants to despair, making them afraid to till their fields. Their terror is so frreat that none of them will any longer venturo into the forest. The aid of tho local authorities has been frequently invoked, in vain ; and the peasants were looking forward, as a last hope, to the autumn battues of the soldiers of tho district, who will, according to their usuage, organise regular bearhunts,
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2570, 29 December 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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154BESIEGED BY BEARS. Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2570, 29 December 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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