"PELORUS JACK."

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10194, 22 March 1911, Page 6

"PELORUS JACK."

SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD

[By Telegraph — Press Association.]

WELLINGTON, Last Night.

This afternoon Mr Allport, Secretary for Marine, received a; letter from Mr G. Webber, a settler of the .French' Pass, in which he said that Wells Bros., of D'Urville Island, had found what they believed to be the carcase of ''Pelorus Jack." Mr Webber, who has seen "Jack" many hundreds of times, was asked to identify the remains, and, as a result, the opinion ,was expressed that the colour, size and shape exactly •correspond with what he had seen of the fish in.the water. The length of the carcase is just one inch under 14ftv, and the girth is between 9ft, and 10ft. "I should say,"' says Mr. Webber,, '"thai? he has been dead for a week or ten days, and : lozb been considerably. bitten by sharks, probably after-death." The Department has sent instructions to take photographs of the fish, and-.secure the skeleton till the.'Hinemoa can call for it. The Department is also masters of passing vessels to ascertain if "Pelorus Jack" is frequenting hie usual haunts-.