The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1889-11-09 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

CKYLON ELEPHLITT KRAAL.—A TRAGIC OC(TR. RENCL—We heard a tremendous outcry 'lose at hand, accompanied with the reports of all manner of firearms. We arrived in time to see the dash in of the huge beasts. who ran round the stockade seeking an exit, but in vain. At every point there were spear. men, and the open space by which they entvred was Instantly closed up. It was difficult at first to see them as they took refuge in the thickest part of the covert. The first thing to be done was to beat down all the brushwood, to enable the noosers to go to work, and fourtame elephants marched in for that purpose. It was most amusing to see the perfectly business-like manner with which they performed their task. They soon found out the few trees which were beyond their strength and they troubled themselves no more with them. The others they rocked to and fre till they overthrew them, and then walked along them breaking off the branches, and converting in a short time that which was previously a thick jungle into level ground. One large dark-coloured elephant showed remarkable skill and sagacity, and we were all admiring his cleverness as he worked away just under the stand within a few yards of us. All at once a frightful occurrence took place. The mahout sitting on his shoulders dropped his goad, an ' the man behind him, who was the regular attendant on the beast, got down to pick it up. In an instant the elephant turned on him, seized him with his trunk, threw him down, knelt upon him and drove his tush (lower tooth) for he was not a tuaker, right through his body. The tush was broken off by the violence of the blow. Be then actually mashed him with his knees. The mahout kept his seat all this time, but vainly urged the beast to rise. At lent, having satiated his revenge, he got up and all wed himself, all dripping from the mouth with his victims blood, to be driven out of the enclosure as quietly as If nothing had happened. It was a terrible scene close under the eyes of a number of ladies, who, as well as some of the men, were altogether upset The Governor at once ordered the proceedings to be stopped for a couple of hours. The poor native's death was instantaneous, for he was crushed into a mass. It turned out afterwards that the elephant neebt never to have been worked that day. and he had always been more or less ill-tempered. The drivers, however, had no misgivings, and so the owner did not interfere. But the poor man who fell a victim ought to have had every cause for misgiving, as the elephant had an old grudge against him on account of ill.treatment and had three times before attempted to kill him. An elephant does not forget 111-treatment, but will long bide his time.—Merray'e traaasina.  Tor Gotoorne or Tan RivireA.—lf the gamesters of Monte Carlo were not, as a rule, lost to all selfrespect, surely the knowledge of the contempt in which the administration holds them would make them shake the dust of the casino from their feet ! It takes their money without a word of thanks, when they lose. Whnn they win, it flings them their winnings with the like indifference ; and when they are stripped, it disowns them. "What are you to us It says to the ruined man who begs a pittance from it. In this matter Monte Carlo is even lees respectable than those famous old haunts of Wiesbaden, Homburg, and Baden Baden. There, at any rat-, the poor • fellow who had emptied his pockets and lost his inheritance, or its worth, at the tanks, was provided with a railway ticket and a trifle of money, that he might return to his friends. Never mind whit the motive that led to such action on the part of the German authorities; the action itself was good. But at Monte Carlo it is otherwise. And it has even been said that the majority of the cases of suicide in the casino gardens are "due to the peremptory refusal of the casino to yield to the entreaties of the ruined men for the means to return home." The Golgotha of the Riviera is thus more diabolical and brutal than its predecessors. One could imagine that the gentlemen of the administration are In inch mortal terror and apprehension of being suppressed, that they fancy they canaot afford even the miserable charity of a few crown pieces to the man from whom they have received tens of thousands. —All tat igiar 440,40.  AL