BANK NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 1901, 17 July 1890, Page 29

BANK NOTES.

Mr Deans has secured a large supply of ova already from various streams in the Otago district. Up to Tuesday, the 15th, there were about 120,000 in the boxes at Opoho, all gathered within the last fortnight. Southland.— At the last meeting of the Southland Acclimatisation Sooiety communications were received from the Government intimating (1) that the Government declined to import any more Balmon ova until, it had ascertained whether or not the fry plaoed in the Aparima during previous years bad returned from the sea ; (2) that the Government declined to place a sum on the Estimates for the purpose of importing dark ooloured opposums from Tasmania; and (3) that the Animals Protection Acts granted no power to authorities to make regulations as to tbe number of dogs to be slipped at one hare. The curator (Mr A. N. Campbell) reported that he had 55,000 trout ova in the boxes against 22,000 last year. The rules of the society are being revised.

Blind Anglers.— Tbe late Professor Fawcett was not the only trout-fisher who, although blind, was able to wield his rod with precision and success. A few years ago there was to be seen on Tweedside, aotively engaged in piscatorial pursuits, Mr William Rankin, who was known in the district as the " blind angler of St. Boswell's," and who became by praotice aB well able to oast a fly or land a trout as any of his brother fishermen, Rankin lost his Bight whilst workinginLondon as a journeyman Bhoemaker, where he was attacked by smallpox. When he became blind he went to Edinburgh to learn the rather complicated business of a maker of fiihing tackle, He knew each cast of the Tweed as rwell as any of his contemporaries, and being blind, he was not particular as to the hours during whioh he finished. Shad.— ln a single day 75,000 shad were caught in the Delaware river, as the result of the hatching jar and its appliances, There has been a rapid increase in numbers during the past three years. Habits of Codfish.— Codfish follow the ice of an iceberg down until they reaoh the water under it, which place affords them an excellent feeding- ground. A Lonely Spot.— lf the fisher would be alone he must go to Loch Skene, Two miles of hill and bog separates that black tarn in a hole like an extinot volcanic crater from a romots road. There is not usually much oompany beside Loch Skene, and no hotel profaneß ita coast.— Saturday Review.