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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 185, 21 August 1888, Page 3

Another largo shark has been captured at Wellington. When the fish which was about 14ft long, was taken out of the net, it was noticed that the head was badly tom and out about, the wounds looking as if they had been teceivod in combat. It is bslieved that a seal which oame|ashore near the same place on the the previous day, and which was also wounded, had been attacked by this shark »nd had retaliated to good effect. The fight, if it actually did take place, must have been a very determined one, judging by the injuries received on both sides. The record of the English Football t matches in the colonies now stands th . Bugby rules, 19, won 14, drawn 3, lost 9 ’ Victorian rules, 16, won 5, drawn 1, lost 10. A cruel joke, says the Taupeka Times, was perpetrated a few days ago on a highly renested Tuapeka settler, and one whom we may describe as comfortably oircumetaneod. He received a letter from a pseudo firm of Solicitors in Dunedin, informing him of the death of an esteemed uncle, who had bequeathed to him ail his wealth, which was represented in some four figures. Hoping to be honored with his instructions, they begged to remain “ his moat obedient servants Liggins and Brown." It so happened that the recipient of the letter had expectations in the direction indicated, which the perpetrators Of the joke may have heard him speak about; and so the lucky nephew may be excused for taking the whole thing has granted and acting with the air of a man to whom fortune was not a stranger. In a fit of generosity he committed himself to several large donations to churches and other deserving objects, his daughter was ordered to cut the baker and hook on to the onrate) his son was peremptorily told to resign a position of soma Importance at the grocer’s; and to crown all, the generous uncle was mentioned in the prayers of the village congregation at the earliest opportunity. A subsequent letter from Dunedin, in reply to inquiries re Messrs. Liggins and Brown, revealed the distressing fact that such a firm never existed i and from the latest advices front Borno the wealthy itirtla still Survives,