ACCLIMATISATION.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4884, 16 November 1876, Page 3

ACCLIMATISATION.

The salmon ova brought by the City of New York from San Francisco to Auckland on the 6th November have, it is stated in a telegram, arrived in splendid condition. A subscription list has been opened at Slattery’s Hotel, Reefton, for the purpose of providiug funds for stocking the Inangahua River with trout.

: During the last fortnight the Acclimatisation Society have liberated eighteen pairs of chaffinches and fifteen pairs of Australian quail in different parts of the province. • Some minas that were set at liberty a few months ago have been seen, and appear to be thriving. A telegram was received in Christchurch on Oct. 20th, stating that 250,000 salmon ova had been shipped by the American Commissioners for Auckland, where the vessel.is expected to arrive on, November 5. The Lyttelton Times says;—Of this consignment, 100,000 are for the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, and the balance will be divided between Auckland and Hawke’s Bay. We learn from the Hawke s Bay Herald that the trout turned out last year by Mr. Tanner in Ngaruroro have been seen lately. Several, fish, measuring from five to six inches, have been seen near the Karamu crossing, and there lis every reason to believe that the previous! attempts have been successful. The last lot are very healthy, and none have died since • hatching. Over 80 per cent of the ova were hatched.

The Otago Daily Times, speaking of the Acclimatisation Society, says that it has been very successful • this season in its endeavors to obtain a good supply of trout eggs. Already about. 11,000 have been distributed, as follows; —Acclimatisation Society of Hawke’s Bay, 2000 ; J. McKenzie, Te Anau district, Southland, 2000 ; Queenstown, 1050 ; Timaru Society,; 1050 ; Auckland Society, 1100 T. Clark, Wairuna, 1000 ; Greymouth Society, 2650. All the eggs despatched were impregThe society has still about 20,000 eggs and young fish at the Opoho: hatching depot, and the work of distributing the fish will probably commence this week. A considerable number will be . forwarded to Mr. James Wheatley, Kakanui, who is one of the most active supporters of the society, and he will see personally that the young fish are liberated in the most suitable streams in the district. The Society will make every effort to stock all those streams in which there are no trout during the' present season ; and residents in the country would do well, to intimate to the society where trout are most wanted without delay. ' ' ' ,