INTERESTING TO PISCICULTURISTS.

Evening Star, Issue 7355, 29 October 1887, Page 2

INTERESTING TO PISCICULTURISTS.

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NAPIER, October 28. The miraculous appearance of fish in’ hitherto barren wafer [a ca\)i?ipg plljfih interest. Last year at Tojpana freezing two underground jceineptpd fapka were’ constructed. They measured about left square'and sft 'deep. They were covered over with hWds, apd o /er the boards a thick coating of earth was PRt. The tanks were fed by a pipe from an artesian well, but were completely protected from the atmosphere. The other day these tanks were emptied, when out of ono was taken a full cart, load of carp, and out of the other an immense quantity of eels. As though this was strange enough, & similar case has occurred elsewhere. On the listings racecourse last summer a lake, was forced aflfhß - back-of the lawp and was filled with water during tlfe Winter rams. Up to ten days ago there was not a fish ip l)fe lake, and than one morning the secretary of the Jockey Club, passing along, discovered the pond literally alive with carp. The sheet of water has no connection, so far as is known, with any other, and where the fish came from is puzzling everybody,