SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. "FINEST TROUT-FISHING IN THE WORLD."

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 30, 5 February 1908, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. " FINEST TROUT-FISHING IN THE WORLD."

ixOTOPJTA REPORTS. [Ct TEiEeiurn^-SfrxiM, to Tub Post.] AUCKLAND, This Day. In discoursing on the wonders oi' "The finest trout-fishing in the world," which he cays is to bt» «bteinfd at Rotorau, a Herald rei»rcse»tative, \rk« has just visited the thermal regions, tf?iysi thers is really no <ieea*ion far the ftnjrier's imaginatiflß to -«-ork up ?t«ri»!t of Rotoriis, fljihin*, because th« truth is etraTtger >ban fiction. Some ef the cctheiiiccitcd catehjs read well : "Wr. S«ton-K«rr, for three divas' fishing, landed 77 fish wishing 3^o lbs. Mr. Tum«r's party of three rods for three months' camming cut landed 11E0 flsh weighing 4245 Ib, nnd with the exception of t about 50 fish all were taken with the fly." # Catchas of Z0 fish weighing 'over ICO lbs to one- fly rod "in one day .ire common enough, and tho catches that* have not been recorded aro batter left r.nnwntionod, not ordy on account of tho restrictions, but also on account af the fisherman's reputation. "Ths common method," fke writer says, "is to use waders which eeme up to the \val3t, and as the lake bottom is smooth and the water evenly shallow wading is no hardship. If you do not vrish to wade you can stand or sit in a boat anchored in the shallow* It is wondi-rful fishing ; thire may be 20 or 30 rods going withiri the srpree ef tn acre or so et yratsr, a fioten playin* fish, ows splashing, v^adem flonndeiing, and the flsh -ore liks a husgtj' army. Ths veriest txtvr chtrm can catch flsh on Ret&nift. I s«v/ v, mnn who had H^ver handled t> rod bsfore hook tkree bsr-uties in r short tb«e. A Hftsea-jrnr-pli Sydney girl, who rlepped her red ftbouk like « iicil, secured "two. If P»torn« eoutisuea in ita "present fern the professional fly fisher will lose his halo of glory, bscfiujft fly fhhin* will bu no longer ths exclusive wart of the skilful. , "From enquiries thnt I mad* I learn in (spite of Roi«rua'& qiiantiti;s of fish caught during the last fotir seasenn trout nre just os plentiful in Rotorua, a>? ever, lndee/d, some pi»»pl* declare that Ihv'y ar» wore plentiful, and in better condition, but that there are not so many large fish. Most of the flsh I saw ran from three to four j pounds.; ths twelve and fifteen 1 pounders are evidently gnywing scars* in Rotorua, end it is ju^t as well. Big hsh arc common enough in tha other lakes, and the angler ambitious for vveighu can havo his fill at Tarawcra of Taupo." A THREATEKIKO LfiTTER. " DUNEBIN, This Day, For sending a threatening letter D^rid M'Connochie, jun., formsTiy c-f Clyd*, nov/ of Middlemarea, was cemmitted nt yesttrdsy's nittiag ef th« Keseby Court io take his trial at Dunedin next month. From tho evidence it ixpprared that M'Coiracchie and his wife lived apart, Ejid that Bvnhns, a farmer at Hyde, had engaged Mrs. M'Connochie as housekeeper through a, regiskj office in this city. Twice while at Hyde M'C'onnoehi* obtained- Bruhns* permission to sc-o his wife, but she would have nothing to say to him. Just before Christmas he wrote to Bruhns asking leave to again see his wife, but Bruhns having received abusive- lottsis from the accused denied ■permission. Matters culminated towards the end of lnst month, when Bruhns Lsceivcd a letter from M'Cor.nochie threatening to shoot him "as dead as a doornail' 1 if anything happened ta bis wifa. It wrs this letter that lei t» proceedings being takers. A CHRISTCHURCH GRIEVANCE. CHKISTCHURCH, This Day. The city of Greater Christchurch is tlit ascend largest in ths Dominion, being pas/sed in population only by Auckland. On the IDC6 census the populations were given as follows : Aticklaftd 02,101, Christchurch 67,8/8, Wellington 63,807, Dtmedin 56,020. Nevertheless, the monthly vital statistics telegraphed from Wellington persistently indicata that Chri6tchurch has the smallest population of the four centres. The matter was mentioned to a Stai reporter by the Mayor (Mr. ,G. Payling), who was very emphatic that attention should be drawn to it — at least in Christchurch. In the vital statistics published yesterday it was made to appear that the ■ population of, Auckland ants suburbs was 69,149, t-Wel-lington 67,535, Dunedin, 58,036, a«d Clmstchnrch 55,263. Tho figures, ef coursa, are incomplete, in the case of Christelrarch, because only Wcolston is iaelndtfi in the total. COLOUB-PHOTOGRAPHY. A OhristekuToh photographer who Las been eipeTi«ientraj with th« Lamiftre «ntft ehre»« process ef colwr pieteITtphy kis wrinrßd wme rowtrktbly ft« results. Th« preeess iHT^TM ti» us« ef only <jb» plute to each pic<jnte, iiti ss tfc* eipesars is »s-<J« threugh •air a y*H«"w screca it is corafmrfltiToly sh»rt, rtngiag froai a f*w eecoiis im direct t!ti«ugrit te three miatttss f«? a "still life" i»Soor study. Th« plate, irhieh is exposed with the glass sias towards the lens, is cwted first with & layer of fine starch granules, coloured rivid green, violet, and orange. The layer is so thin as to be quite transparent, and acts fts a, ray filter for tho sensitised emulsion with which it is coated aftrr. The process of development calls for caroftil attention to small details of manipulation, but it presents no insuperable difficulty to even a fairly advanced auintetir, and -rc-liejx the process is popularised the cost will .-probably <3eerease to a. great extent. Th« subjects treated vary in ehsracter. A few apri- j cots "posed" on a dark green eleth pro- j vide a brilliant and yet delicately coloured study, the faint purple bloom on the fruifc, and. all the- fine nuances ef I colour and shading, "ire perfectly reproduced. A view of a handsome Tcsideuco ' is another sucecss, the varjing hues of tho grass' and foliage, sky, and flowerbeds being recorded with absolute ; fiddily!