INTRODUCTION OF SALMON TO NEW ZEALAND.
arrival of the celestial qtjeen. SALMON OVA ARRIVED SAFELY. Duhedht, May 4. The Celestial Queen, with the salmon ova on board, airived at Port Chalmers, on Saturday. Of the live fish shipped on board at London, the gudgeon, tench, and carp, e.ther died, or were let during the passage. , . • ™._ The first boxes of salmon ova on being opened were found to be in good condition. The greater part of them were at once shipped to Molyneux, anl hare rear-h-d the Waiwera stream by this time. The ov. in ten boxes have been placed in hatching boxes at the water of Leith. These ova are in fair condition. The boxes of salmon " unabla aud brown (so the telegraph clerk writes, whatever that may moan.— f d W. 1.) were in very bad condition, nearly »11 of thein being dsad. Those living have been placed m tka Acclimatisation Society's breeding boxe ® Boyd's Creek, but with only faint hopes of their coming to any good.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume V, Issue 1400, 13 May 1868, Page 3
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