A RIDIODLOUS STORY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 18, 22 January 1895, Page 4

A RIDIODLOUS STORY.

The Pa is ifyuro recently publieliednu its front pape, uudertho Biiruatur.'. of'Lo Mi.eqne do for,'' llio following ridkulcus b'.oi y : — 11 An ostouudiiip pirco of ne!re baa reached us, which wo would hesitate to reproduce, ovon under tbo most express reserve, it its authenticity were not guaranteed to us iv tho ino.-.t absolute mam.er. The Government, wo aro ns. Giiro !, has just been informed that several Knghah sportsmen stnrtcd a few days ago ior Madagascar, with tho intention of taking ndvautago of our expedi. tiou against tbo Hcvas to iudulgo in tbo plouure of » booting down iVonchmen and beating tho record in the Tir aux Frtir cais. These sportsmen are eaid to belong to an association formed by a group of honourable gentlemen who, biases liy tho emotioi.s of tiger-huutiug, conceived the idea of mau-huntiog, but prcfij-abl) \by hunting Pronchmen. 'J ho reason for this will hardly be believed. It is becauso these ferocious maniacs do Frencbinon the honour of rogardiugtLern as tho meet formidable girac, as the pluckiett of the man type, and, therefore, bet t calculated to revive by the season, iug if danger their sensations blunted by the pursuit of big game. This sport of a novel kind, without a i rccodent iv tho annuls of tbo civilised, nay, of the barbdtian world, is, however, uotqnitoa new pastini o for our amiable neighbours aoross tbo cuanucl. They have, it soeras, already indulged iv it against our isolated Bolcieis iv Toulon aud Dahomey just i>b they arc preparing to go in for it at Madagascar, Eufc if tbo peoplo at tbo Quai d'oTßiiy are well informed, as we are aseurcd is the. ease, we cannot but (think that tho leaders of our expedition, beiug |