A Shark Story.

Manawatu Herald, 23 April 1904, Page 2

A Shark Story.

The story of the discovery of human bones and bangles in the interior of a crocodile captured at

Fort Jackson, Rhodesia, brings to mind'another story. Everybody has heard of “ Mrs Macquarrie’s Chair,” as they call the eastern point of jjparra Cove, in Sydney harbour. y* B^f?Brr/ it was that a poor emigrant, in pre-cable days, killed and towed ashore a shark, cut him up and found a London newspaper in his internals. In the paper was the announcement of the war between France and Germania The shark had outdistanced the steamer by which the mail was coming, and here the discoverer had the fact to himself. He gave his information to a wealthy wool dealer, who bought all the season’s clip at 9d per lb, and sold at 3s after the news of war had arrived by the ordinary channel. He cleared, it is said, four millions by the deal. The man who killed the shark and extracted the news of war—well, he received a battered silk hat and a five shilling piece, and unrestrained liberty as to the disposal of the shark.