PELORUS JACK.
• :-?■ HAS HE REAPPEARED? 'i — 4 (SrECIAI, TO "the tress.") -*£■ WELLINGTON. January 3l£, Captain N. E. Bower, master of W New Zealand Shipping Compauf*steamer Paparoa, now in "Welling"*,' , harbour, writes as follows to *J<.j "Dominion" under date of 3m*Q - \ .°.oth:—"Last evening, when coming P -** Wellington from Wanganui in * ; above ship, a largo fish, Pdorus Jack in every detail, was «*! swimming alongside the ship ' icieral minutes, it not only «j semb'.ed him in appearance, bnt »» movements were the same, inasmuctg ic swam alongside for several then went to the bow for a -.'j£\ mnutc.s and then disappeared. ■J? A nchen, who was a Pa ssun ,B er . in ' B JK having seen Peloru* Jack : when in the Picton and.>•*«£!£ , as an officer in the Lnion Compel assures mo that, this fish, so v l«in. both in appearance and that ho feels certain it is cither w i.rothpr o; th? same species, i », tf since heard that a. fish of this «P» fc has been reported off Cape EPg. .-•-ompanied lv several young - This on? we havo seen was BJ . , My chief officer tried to get a V* graph, but before he ™» ] ij£L 1 camera ready the fish au. re.wrtitig tho matter to «* ornment." .
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Press, Volume LII, Issue 15502, 1 February 1916, Page 6
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