SEARCH FOR LIONESS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9810, 11 June 1914, Page 7

SEARCH FOR LIONESS.

AUSTRALIAN INCIDENT A lioness is reported to hav« made it appearance at Watson's Greek, near Man ilia, New South Wales. A miner, woik ing on a tin lode at the foot of the hill* at Giant's Deo, states that he has upon different nights heard a peculiar crj, different from any made by animals or birds of the {district. Ho describes theory as sufficiently startling to 4i raise hii hair." One morning at dajkreak he row to ascertain the cause, and was surprised to see a large animal resembling a lioness some ditstacce away. It had no mane, but had the long, smooth, tufted tall commou to those bcast«. The miner had a shotgun, bus he did not risk shoot ing at tho animal. Tracks of a larg* animal were found at tho waier close b?. Several watches have since been kepi through the at the water, whioh is the only spring for some distance round, but although the cry is supposed to have been heard since, the animal has not been seen. A.n armed parly o1 30 men Bcoureu the country for milei, but without success, and a large party to eearoh ihe more isolated parts was or ganised. The footprints of tho animal have been *een bv a rnmKir of pouple.