SHARKS!

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2119, 19 February 1908, Page 5 (Supplement)

SHARKS!

Stirring tales of encounters with sharks are becoming unpleasantly frequent in Australian newspapers. The narrator of shark yarns has generally to face itiie witlieringly cold eye ot scepticism, and for this reason many good and authentic stories never gain ipublicity. Putting aside “shark stories” altogether, however, the “Daily Telegraph” says that there is ample evidence that Sydney harbor at present is infested with largo shoals of man-eaters, and the foolhardy bather who continues to enter the open harbor waters from the beaches certainly carries his life in his hands. Two men who were fishing in .Lane Cove one evening recently state .that- they wore attacked by a .monster, who overturned their boat, and would certainly have devoured them had they not been fortunate enough to draw themselves out of rc'icli into the branches ol a Villen tree. While rowing from Middle Harbor to Manly Mr Joseph Cunningham, of North Sydney, and a couple of friends were followed closely by a “fifteen-footer” of the tiger variety, wlbo came so close to the skiff on. several occasions that he had to_ lie driven off with a scull. .Parties fishing in the vicinity of the Heads are frequently cheated out- of the fish hooked by sharks snapping them from the lines! Altogether ,tho shark kat