A DINGO'S FATE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 460, 19 March 1909, Page 4

A DINGO'S FATE.

fr_ ESCAPED FROM TEE ZOO, AND SHOT. There is, or ought to be, 1 some sore lamenting in the House of Dingo at Nowtown Park, Wellington, just now, for the hand of death has been laid upon its fairest Lady Dingo—under circumstances of the most tragio kind. Yestordny, a tawny furt'ivo shape skulked from the precincts of the' Zoo, evaded the chase, and sped with a lone loping stride in the direction of tho hills and sweet liberty. It was ono of the thrco Australian wild dogs, which were, enclosed in a big circular run in the vicinity of tho deer pens. By some means or other, "it had slipped out, and got clear away. A hue and cry was raised, and unsparing efforts were made to recapture'the animal; a dingo at largo is by no means an acceptable addition to u peaceful community, and visions of devastated iowlriins, harried sliecp, and other horrors in keeping with tho nature of tho beast, flitted across the minds uf tin- pursuers. All efforts were v.un, liuwviur, and it was suggested that, tho dingo Hhould bo shot, as a .iihtincily undesirable immigrant. N helhcr a of impending evil inspired in the fugitive a desire to die among friends, or lue hunted, animal simply "happened" that way, is not known; nt all events, so it is said, tho dingo, in the course of its peivgrinations, wandered into the neighbourhood of tho residence of the Kcv J). C. Dates who, bv tho way, had joined the litllo armv'of would-be captors. When (he pursuers iinailv realised that capture was hopeless, tho reverend gentleman possessed himself of a gun, and with marksmanship worthy of a nobler target, shot tho escapee.