MAULED BY A TIGER.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 176, 20 April 1908, Page 7

MAULED BY A TIGER.

SENSATIONAL INCIDENT. ' A MEW ZEALANDER INJURED IN INDIA. ARM AMPUTATED, gY TELKGHAPH—riIESS association—copyright. London, April 17. Mr. Leopold Acland, a Now Zealand landowner,' was wounded by a tiger in tho Khulna district, iiortli of Calcutta., The tiger disappeared into the jungle, but suddenly reappeared and felled Mr.- Acland to tho ground. Another of tho party shot and killed the tiger \vhile it Was dragging Mr. Acland by the arm into tho jungle. Mr. Acland's arm has been amputated. PARTICULARS BY LETTER. It has fallen to the fate of few men to have experienced so close a call as that which has befallen Mr. Leo. G. D. Acland, tho well-known Canterbury station-holder. Acs' cording to a. letter received by Mr. H. M. Reeves, of Christchurch, Mr. Acland, whilst waiting at Calcutta to connect with a steamer for Australia, went on a tiger shooting expedition, during which ho whs attacked by a tiger, which lie had shot and wounded, and was. being carried off by the animal when a native servant shot the tiger dead. Tho numerous friends of Mr. Acland (says the Christchurch "Press") will be glad to learn thii't according to latest information he was progressing. favourably towards recovery. Mr. Acland-left New Zealand on a trip to England-last September, and was returning to New Zealand. A letter received a week-ago from Mr. Acland stated that lie was killing, time waiting for his steamer, arid that lie intended going up tho Ganges for a week. Evidently a shooting party was arranged, which included Mr. Acland. Tho remainder of the narrative is best told in the words of a lotter, from Mr. Trafford, Deputy-Conservator of Forests, etc., Khulna, which is' elated Calcutta, March l'i-.— •: "Mr. Acland has asked me, to write to let you.know that probably he will not bo able to'leave Calcutta for New Zealand till next.month. He has met with an accidont whilst out shooting;: and has been very fortunate to escape- with his .life. He was very anxious to shoot a. tiger, and, with myself, wont to the Gangetic Delta. He succeeded in wounding.a 'tiger;:and'' in following'it'up the tiger mauled him.'so that ho had to have his left arm amputated.. I have never met,a mail who took an accident so bravely as Mr..Acland, and it,was duo to his pluck , ill standing up to, and firing at, a charging' tiger that he received • his. injury.' Ho 'is now confined to' bed in hospital, and will not be able to got out for some time. Fortunately,"! was able to get him to hospital by special train 1 in.'eighteen hours after the accident. His right hand was' also badly clawed, and has'-had to b'e cauterised, so that lie cannot' writes himself at present. Tiger wounds aro apt to be somewhat daugerbus, but the 'principal medical officer. Colonel Pilgrim, who, has had a great deal of-' experience in treating men for leopard and tiger wounds,. considers him out of; all danger. 'jl mayadd- that: Mr. Ac-lan'd; was siived bjr tho bravery of a riativo khalassi, Who fired at the. tiger, Within a couple of yards, hs th 6 tiger :'was dragging Mr. .Acland off into the jungle;':' -..My rifle was already l discharged; so, personally, I'was helpless-to .do'.anything. • I think'a month will see'him out of tho liosnital, and on his way :,ho'm'e." . Mr. Leo, Acland participated in. the Boor War,' - leaying New Zealand'as a p'rivato in, tho Third (Rough Riders), Contingent.