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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9073, 18 November 1909, Page 2

Some alarm has been caused in one of the country districts in Tonga (writes the Nukualofa correspondent of the Sydncy Daily Telegraph) owing to the antics of "a wild man of the woods," who lives in the bush alone. He is a Solomon Islander, and for over ten years he has lived alone, far from the native vil- ' lages. Hie hair and beard have assumed the Robinson Crusoe length and wildness, and the natives are afraid of him. A few weeks ago a native woman was chased by him through the bush, and frightened out of her wits by the chase. When he caught her eho expected nothing less than instant death, but he deprived her of all her clothes, and she returned to the village in the state of Eve before the Fall. The Tongan police have received instructions to capture the man, but he is very fleet of foot, and his outdoor life has rendered him familiar with hiding-places in the bush, so that the generally corpulent and altogether "restful" Tongan policeman does not stand much of a chance in a race.