BANK NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2104, 21 June 1894, Page 33

BANK NOTES.

"Piscator," Cromwell, writes :—•• In default aof big fish or big basket, I send a shag item. Two of our Cromwell citizens engaged on a piece of work above Cromwell espied a shag very busy in a branch of the river. A gun being handy, in a short time the game the shag was so busy upon was sharply ended. The curiosity of the shootist induced him to examine the contents of the shag's stomach, when, could you believe i*, h9 counted over 50 young trout up to 4in long ! The shoofcist's mate naturally didn't quite comprehend such an order and went to count for himself, and he was more than astonished when he laid over 40 young trout on the stones, while several floated in the water. This, my dfar Jock, was one, and one only, shag's breakfast. It is gratifying to see that the Acclimatisation Society are inclined to be more liberal in the extermination of these pests. Still they should go one further and grant a season's ticket to the

securer oF, say, 5 shags' heads over and above the usual monetary award."

Attention is directed to the announcement of the Acclimatisation Society that they will pay 2s per head for shags killed inland 10 miles from the coast up to the 30th September next.

Mr Elliot Stock is publishing a volume entitled " Walton and Some Earlier Writers on Fish and Fishing," by Mr Robert B. Marston, editor of " The Fishing Gazette " and honorary treasurer of the Fly Fishers' Club. The author has devoted some years to all matters relating to angling. It is not long ago since he edited the hundredth edition of Walton and Cotton's 11 Compleat Angler," which was issued in two handsome volumes, with photogravure and other illustrations of familiar angling spots on the Thames, the Lea, and the Dove. Mr R. B. Marston is the son of Mr Edward Marston, the publisher, who has written some charming little sketched of country and riverside experiences under the norn de plume of " The Amateur Angler."