The Singapore Daily Times says with reference to Reuter's telegram stating that an attempt had been made to assassinate the King of Italy, and that the President of the Council, Signor Cairoli, had been mortally wounded while seizing the assassin, we are informed by the Italian Consul, the Chevalier Testa, titar he has received a telegram stating that King Humbert had been scarcely scratched and Signor Cairoli only slightly wounded. the mine paper is indebted to a corres-dent for the following more accurate account of the recent shooting of tiger. would seem that tigers are increasing in numbers on the island, or, at all events, are not so scarce as they have been generally believed to be:—An old Malay man, who looks after a plantation at Teluk Baku, near Tanah Merah, having seen that a good deal of damage was being done by pigs in the plantation, thought he would try and shoot one, so he made a platform about 10 or 15 feet high up in a tree, and watched there all Friday night, without. seeing anything. At about 7.30 a.m. on Saturday he saw some sort of an animal come right underneath the tree he was in and sniff round it, He did not know what the animal was, never having seen a tiger in his life. However he was very much frightened that it might be able to reach him, so he thought he had better fire, which he did, hitting the tiger in the back, just behind the shoulder. This shot probably killed it, but ho thought he saw it move, so he fired another shot, and hit it in the neck. Then he came down from his perch, and was rather surprised when he found he had killed a tiger. The skeleton, which is perfect, except that the back of the skull isa little broken, will be set up in the Museum, The osteologist of the Museum considers the tiger to be probably about 50 years old. The Malay received the usual Toward of $50 from Government, Another smaller tiger, which was caught at Sirangoon, has been sold privately by the men who caught it. Its mother is still about Sirangoon district and has been wounded."
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