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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2347, 13 November 1908, Page 6

A remarkable scene, evidently a battle between a whale and a school of kilters, was -witnessed by a large crowd of picnickers at Bondi .boach, near Sydney, one Sunday afternoon recently. A correspondent, writing to an. Australian journal, says that “a huge sea monster appeared on the surface about half a anile distant from the beach, and lashed the water into foam for a radius of six or eight yards. Times innumerable it was seen to raise its immense form out of the water, remain upraised for the space of from ten to twenty seconds, and then lash down with such force as to send the spray many feet' in the air. Then again both ends of the monster would be raised at the same time, /and curve round to meet in the air, after which -a huge splash, greater than before would result. After, it had been exercising .itself in this strange way for close upon an hour a motor launch appeared from the direction of Coogee and headed towards it, whereupon the monster, after a supreme effort of eleven upheavals, performed without a pause for rest, suddenly sink from view. On the disappearance of the launch round Be.n Buckler Point the monster again showed up farther out to sea for a few minutes, and then die-