Albury Banner and Wodonga Express (NSW : 1860 - 1927; 1929 - 1931; 1933 - 1938), Friday 14 February 1896, page 28


THE TIGER AGAIN.

A correspondent at Byaduk writes that all the dogs in the township were very much excited the other night, and their barking was so incessant that few of the residents failed to notice that the animals were giving the moon, or something else, an unusually fierce baying. Next morn-ing Mr. Falkenberg found four of his sheep lying dead in the paddock, and when

searching for the cause he dropped on either a new Tantanoola tiger or the same old animal that broke away from its circus years ago. It seems that the tiger was bigger than ever, for Mr. Falkenberg describes it as being about as big as most horses, and of the colour of all properly bred tigers, which do not exhibit hereditary taint of any kind. Like most of the

Tantanoola tigers that have been dis-covered, Mr. Falkenberg's animal was shy and it retired from the presence of a man and two dogs with all possible expedition. Mr. Faolkenberg says his dead sheep were bitten all over by some ferocious destroyer of unfortunate animals which are unable to protect themselves from the savage beasts that are always bobbing up some where in this tiger-infested country, and the residents are excited at the prospect of securing the brute.