An Advernture With a Sea Lion At Akatore.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3025, 6 January 1899, Page 5

An Advernture With a Sea Lion At Akatore.

Three MMt^n boys aged respectively 18, 16, and 15 yeara had a rather remarkable adventure with a aea-lion on the Akatore' iptet o» day last Veflk. It appears they Wtft oamptog •ut and were returning home* Ward* from fishing when they came upon a laa-ilbe lying on the rocks a little oiiyude^bdve 3 high wa f er mark, near the mouth of the Akatore Greek. The boya oajoe apon the lion, who was. quietly asleep hacking in the son, quite unexpectedly in Jib 1 ! 1 tiiey nearly fell over htm, when he ,' pampttr «•■» °P an * ottered a fearful roar "Thtnh •* frightened the smallest of the beyi that he Immediately took to his heels. The others, who eMmed to have taken mattare remarkably coolly, took no notice of •he roaring, of jUieaea-lipn but poked him np erlththe endi of their fishing rods, which iiatnrally mide hlni rokr the more. lfe« turf laeeing the calm ffqooajdjnge.. fff . h|f companions thereupon came back and was at once . despatched by them to ' th<Bir^oamn fo^ a gun. The •ther»i bo dbubtmuch to the adrprlae of the lion, oontinned to belabor him with fishing *od^ji|iki9^4d4r b tFr."^owing fight he waddled off from the sea ahore and was oha^bytiieoonriige'ousyouthii up on to thigh growtdofor a oonaiderable distance. By Ihipi.tiine >h 0 other boy returned with a shot •up, aad, the aea-Ilon waa promptly d^epa^Med. I On being airloned he was found fio meaiure eight feet 6s length. The party lortnq ttmeU»»kfaalng the animal, and. the ■kin I* now being tanned in Milton \ so there can be little doubt of the bona fider of the gtory. 2 JHiaiherd been no tangible Evidence ofthtitofy we are: alrald we ehouM have< been Ipel,ln«d to olau jt with those wonderful teles of/ adventure made notorious by BiJtijemonti-aod ;the others who monthly irrfte " cufleri " In the * Wide, Wide World Magazine.' As it la the aea-Uon'i skin speaks feritwif.