A Shark Story.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 562, 27 January 1891, Page 3

A Shark Story.

All Gi«borne was unpleasantly interested the other day by the capture of a nine-foot shark near the breakwater pier. The interest indeed was so great that it was thought a profitable plan to exhibit the shark, the admission being fixed at the modest ‘ tanner.’ Various stories were soon in circulation about the shark, and its appearance and capture were ascribed to various causes, political and otherwise. As most of these stories were neither funny nor true they need not be repeated, but the shark itself was not to be forgotten in a hurry. The 9ft body soon developed into a 29ft smell that advertised the shark splendidly without a word being said on the matter. As the length of smell continued io ihetea-e until it could claim many (dead) horse-power the peaceable officer who is specially concerned with such matters gave the order that the .Jiatk must be conveyed to other regions. The defunct monster therefore soon vanished, but it is whispered that he was thrown over the bridge for the timid little fish to play with. At any rate on Sunday morning a body was visible on the mud bank opposite Mr Dunlop’s residence, and a large crowd collected on the bridge to witness the spectacle of wnat they believed to be the body of a dead man. The effluvium made it necessary that the object should only be viewed at long range. On reports being sent to headquarters, an investigati >n was made, proving that the unsightly object was tho carcass of the same old shark, that bad returned to spend the S ibbath on shore. The nine-footer was once more done away with, and it is believed that he will not again make his ghastly presence known by an odor that would settle a hundred people where a bite would only wound one,