BANK NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2167, 5 September 1895, Page 33

BANK NOTES.

The Timara Herald reports that auother fine sea trout was caught in Caroline Bay on the 27th. It scaled within an ounce of 15 b, waa ia very fine condition, and from its marking had nofe been long out of a riw. Mr F. Deans, the Ot»go Acclimatisation Sccieby's manager, writing from Clinton to tho society concerning the report that one of tbe Q«h eenb to England from Oamaru has been identified ac a Californian salmon, says : " With reference to the Californian salmon, a great many of the ova went bad, and we had only 13,000 fry to liberate. They were liberated in Januaty 1878, not in the mill race, as stated in the Times the other day, but in the river proper, above the Township of Maheno. As there were no trains between Dune-Jin and Oataaru, I drove by road with them. I took them in two trips, and they were strong and lively with the exception of one car, t?h : ch was an old galvanised one. On the second trip I borrowed some cans from the late Mr Young, of Pitltnertton. About that time the Southland Society distributed a lob of Californian salmon. I met Mr Howard, bhe curator of thab society, at Waipahi one day with a lot. He said he had 8000, and brought them from Invercargill and put them iv the Vfaipahi. I bave a faint recollection that there k a specimen of a, Califoruian palmon in the museum, bub I cannob say when it was caught. It is just ponfrible that some of those salmon we bear of being caught occasionally may belong bo bhat species. They may make their appear*Dce all at once, as the trout did. It is bo be hoped they will. I do net think there can be any doubt about 'the specimen referred to in the Times, the information comicg from such a high authority." The Wellington Acclimatisation Society have made the following distribution of trout ova this Bea6on :— New South Walts Government, 86.000; Taupo, 100.000; Weatland, 110,000; Bay of Islands, 17,000 ; Hawke's Bay, 30.C00; Pwverfcy B»y, 10,000 ; Opotiki, 6500 ; Tauranga, 5000;— total, 364,500 eyed ova Bent out to date. Orders are now in hand for about 100,000 fry. The Waikawa corresponded of the Wynahain Farmer writes :—" Anglers, prepwe jourseWe»! It is not generally known that this stroam promises to become oue of the bfsb for the rod and fly in the district. The upper waters are just teeming with trcut, and as for the lower part, about Niagara, you can see them sporting about on a fiDe evening -regalar whales. Our local angler and raDger cnught some two seasons ago up to Blb weight." The Dipton correflpondent of the Southland News cays : — " Our locxl anglers are once more looking forward to the opening of tho fishing season. Providiug there are no floods, th« coming season ought to bo a very sucewsful one, and no doubt some bumper eraels will be made. I am told that Mr D. M'Kay sent this year to the Fociefcy's hatchery at Wallacetown about 280.000 ova. All theso were collecbd within four or five miles of tbc township."

There are 151 women in charge of railway stations in Victoria. In the District Cmrt at WaDganui on Monday, Edward Williams was sentenced by Judge Kettle to five years' imprisonment for bigamy. Seventy-six thousand acres of the Marathon, resumption in the Hughenden (Queensland) district have been taken up in four grazing farms. The Thames Star repir's :— " A resident or. Hamilton owns a Brahma which has laid threa eggs within 10 days, oich of which has turned the scale at from 3suz to A <.z, and each day ia the interval has laid an ordinary sizad one." Miss Florence Ethel Millf, of Dunedin, wbo is a student at the London Academy of Music, ha 3 carried off the gold medal for tte piano* forte at the examination this year. She Becured the bronze medal in 1893, and the silver medal last year.