BANK NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2004, 21 July 1892, Page 32

BANK NOTES.

Observations like those which were recapitulated at the last meeting of the Otago Instituteare of the greatest value, as they tend to' show the relation which scientific research may have to the pursuits of mercantile and industrial life. It would appear very probable that the-much-prized salmon trout have found a suitable: habitat near Kartigi Point, and the observer, Mr Sandager, does not seem to have rushed off too hastily with the information that the fish were numerous there, but to have waited three years in order to verify his observations. - Even now it must be admitted that there is doubt, and it was a good suggestion of Mr F. R. Chapman that the Acclimatisation Society should send someone down to make systematic and technical observations. That salmon trout are already plentiful in the harbour is beyond doubt, and it will be a gratifying circumstance if they should be found as stated, and one of the many chapters in the history of the Acclimatisation Society end more satisfactorily than has been for some time expected. We observe, also, from the report of the meeting of the Acclimatisation Society that the salmon Experiment in the Aparima cannot yet be definitely pronounced upon. It may be somo little time even yet before a certainty of success or failure can be arrived at. Meantime, the Aparima is closed against netting, and 'somo little injury has thereby been inflicted on local fishermen. This may be matter for regret, bub it is imperative that nothing shall endanger the result of an experiment which, if successful, would be one of the notable events of modern times. Nearly one million trout ova have been collected by the curator of the Masterton fish ponds this year — an increase of nearly 100 per cent, on last year. Forty thousand young trout are about to be sent to Napier. Mr James Geebar, an elderly man owning considerable property in Melbourne, residing with his nephew, was suffocated by gas. Ho had drawn a chandelier low down and turned the gas off at the jet, but the chandelier being dry the gas escaped. On the door of his bedroom being broken open in the morning he was found quite dead.