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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1641, 7 January 1913, Page 4

Great excitement prevailed on . tlio Hampton Beach, Melbourne, olio nfterncon Inst week, when a fcrocicms-looking shark over lDit. in length suddenly-made its.appoaraiicii in the water a-few yards from the -epob where hundreds of peoplemen, women,-and childrcn-r-worp. bathing (siivs the Melbourne "Ago . The monster was first seen when it half leapt out of tho water. It was then lashing m sea into foam with its tail,,and -appeared, to bo -making straight, tot. tho bathers. Thoso who noticed its approach c'nvo the alarm >'by shouting, 'A ([shark!! Look out!" In a twinkling 'tho bathws were racing out of the water for the dry sand; Ono woman fainted beforcshe was ftbl© to I get out of tho water, and a man, realising that sho was in imminent danlwr of being drowned, if not taken alivo by the ' (Shark, plunged into tho surf, frantically waving a deck chair in ono hand to i frighten • off tho shark, and to protect; i himself, if necessity. In this way ho i carried tho unconscious woman to a place i of safety. A constable,.who was on duty ■ on the bench, drew his revolver, and fifed three shots at tho shark, but as it-gave the water two heavy swishes with .its ia.il and swan out to «>a, it is not lc'n«wh ■ .whether'anv of the idiot*.took effect.Tho ■ shark bo terrified tho bathers • that only ono-or two of them would venture in the water afterwards.