SALE OF CARNARVON COLLECTION

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 120, 25 May 1925, Page 7

SALE OF CARNARVON COLLECTION

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.)

(BBUTER'S TBLEORASI.) (Received 25th May, 11 a.m.)

LONDON, 24th May.

The sale of the Carnarvon art collection has concluded. The total amount realised was £180,000, including 17,000 guineas for the Gainsborough portrait of the Countess of Chesterfield.

According to a Press Association message the Gisborne Power Board meeting on Saturday decided to adopt a draft agreement submitted by the Government for thp supply of hydro-electricity from Waikaremoana, agreeing to. pay "a minimum of £10,CC0 per annum for the first three years on condition that the Government guarantees a supply of power within three years

While fishing with the fly in Lake Tarawera on Tuesday iiighl, Mr. A. G. Pennington hooked a large fish. After a strenuous time, varied by a run of from 80 to 100 yards of line and "sulks," when nothing would move the fish, it was eventually brought to the gaff, and proved to be a monster ell of 301b, measuring fully five foot in length, and with approximately a girth of eighteen inches (states the "Now Zealand Herald"). Eels taken on a fly have been recorded occasionally in the past, both in England and Now Zealand, but it is so rarely done that the event is always wofl.ii recording, piirliciilarly in this caae, owing Id the sjgg of the' jej.