SHARKS ON THE ENGLISH COAST.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 48, 2 December 1867, Page 297

SHARKS ON THE ENGLISH COAST.

- (From the: Home iJews.) A THEiLi of horror, wereit not happily au tumn, would pass round the shores of Eng land, wherever bathing machines convey] amphibious Britons to the deep. Sharks have been seen—nay, caught—to the number. of five, off the Kentish coast, this past week; Beal, sharks!—awful, authentic, . .serious, substantial monsters—capable of gobbling up an alderman, and of making 'but a single bite of a London belle. One sea-tiger out of the take,, 13 feet 6 inches long, is in the hands of Mr Buckland, to be prepared for the College; of Surgeons. But who knows how nearly that fish may have, .‘‘ prepared/’ ,in a different way, ! holiday makers during the past bathing season? The reflection “ that this year some of us have unconsciously acted,' perhaps, as a . sort of live-bait off the bea’ch, phd that the /marine beasts] have been cruising from" wa-taring-place, to might reconcile society to; the winds it too . cold for the seaside. Meanwhile, .when ,five • sharks come, so may fifty pr.flve hundred ; anditcohcerns us to know whethbr'such . grisly visitbrs may be expected every season. ;If ..sp, what/with|ch'plera/,npw and thieh,.a»d haiuuiertheaaedsharks, it 1 begins h}.be;a'qpeßtidn whether*/** except ‘for the . hpnour ;pf/.the' tking,” is .sucb:]a great advantage to live' ih. the ;temperafe zones.