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Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 10, 10 September 1874, Page 4

Several years ago a wild, unbroken horse when four years old was taken up from the pasture in Australia, and .after some difficulty was haltered. Strugglingwith his captor, the halter was drawn so tightly that it" broke, and the animal regained its freedom. But it Carried away with it a lasting, and finally a fatal, torture in the tightened rope. Recently the circumstance was brought to recollection by the discovery in a : remote part of the country by. an explorer of a curiously deformed skull of ahorse. The inferior maxilla, br lower jaw bones, were deeply cutinto; the nasal bones were also deeply indented; the occiput, on top of the skull, too, had been pene-trated-to a considerable depth, and one side was seriouly destroyed. The skull found was that of a seven-year-old horse. During those three years the tightened cords had eaten into the skulL the bones of which, injured and' diseased, had gradually wasted away. The ! jaws, tightly bound, and every move- , merit were cut into by the; unyielding ) cord, and the poor animal must/, after ' an Unhappy and lingering' existence, j have finally succumbed to starvation, j inanition, and the : painful I',1 ', necrosis !: of the bones of the skull.