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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 150, 19 March 1908, Page 4

It was only a very youthful canine, yot for, tho. space of .some twenty minutes as it lajrby;the-sidowalk in'.Swanson Street (says tlle : "Auckland Star"), it was -tho. cehtro of attraction for a ring of interestcd_ spectators, brimful of sympathy audi'suggestions. . The (dog appeared to tho passing pressman to wear a somewhat anxious • and oven painod . expression, an idea confirmed by tho information that, a few minutes previously, it had i boen subjected to a 'some\Vhat severe compression ill tho'shapo of a cart wheel, and that it was, at that moment, engaged in tho occupation of "crossing, tho; Styx." When tho: reporter paKsdl tho spot on his return ;.somo ten minutes later tho process of dissolution appeared,.to have boon still more rapid, and- one of tho sightseers, 'evidently'with si strong surgical instinct, had commcncod an examination. Lifting tho animal on to its haunches, ho rubbed his hand carefully down '■its.spmo, while somo scathing-objurgations, accompanied by . a .tearful protest from a young lady, wcro directed at him. "Oh I Can't you lcavo tho poor brute to dio in pcaco?" ancV."You'ro only increasing its'pain tenfold," wcro remarks which passed unheeded. Tho sequel to tho massngo treatment was almost startling'in its suddcnaiess. A volloy of abuso directed at tho tonnontor was cut short, by tho. dbg instantly rising to tho'occasion (literally), and disappearing with a bound round tho doorway, and in just under ten seconds tho .crowd had ooniplotoly ovaporated.-