END OF THE FAMOUS FISH.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12710, 22 March 1911, Page 5

END OF THE FAMOUS FISH.

PRESERVING THE SKELETON,

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, March 21. This afternoon, Mr Geo. Allport, -Secretary for Marine, received a kitteifrom Mr G. Webber, settler at French ; Pass, m .which he said that Wells Bros.; oi p Urvillo Island, had found what they believe to be the carcase of Pelorus Jack..- Webber, who has seen Pelorus • Jack many hundreds of times, was ask[cd to identify the remains, and as a ■ result tlie opinion was expressed that ilio colo;u\ size and shape exactly corresponded with what they had seen of ' the fish in the water. The length of ; the carcase* is, they state, just one inch undsr 14 feet, and girth betweem 9ft. and 10ft. "I should say, says Webber, | " that he lias bson dead for* a week or ten diys. and has been considtrablv bitten by sharks, probably after death." The Department has sent instructions to take photographs of the fish and secure the skeleton till the Hiireimoa can < all for it. Tho Department is also requesting masters of passing ve~sels to ascertain if Pelorus Jack is frequenting his usual haunts.