LAND AND WATER.

Otago Witness, Issue 2202, 14 May 1896, Page 35

LAND AND WATER.

i The annual report o£ the Wellington Acclimatisation Society records another year's steady _ progress. The increase of red deer has been i very remarkable ia tha-Wairarapa district, aad the report abates that New Zealand mu»b be ; regarded as' a motb »uifc*ble home foe deer. The- • Animals Protection Act Amendment Act, paaaed last stsßion, is referred to as an important • measure.' Nabivo pigeons are raptdly grovring' scarcer, and the council of tha society atk all ' good colboißts to aesist in preventing their tottl exberminabion by abstaining from shooting and di»»uading others from shooting th«mthrs »o»«ow. The council' join in the recommeadaticn that bhe salmon ova by the K*ikoar«be placed ia the Waiau river, or m some good river running in*o bhe southern 1 West Co»str Sounds. Satisfaction is expressed ab bhe- increase ia the se&'guing varieties of trout. A London cable states thai Stanbury, the Australian sculler, has nrireii tftere. An eel of a bright orange' colour was 1 cauglit in the Fatea river the other day. OUR ROWING REPRESENTATIVES. Sydnet, May 6. 1 M'Cormick, tbe New- Zealand sculler, is now under -the sole control of his trainer, Neilsoc. Daly has not yet shaken down to the Seymours' style, and in order to remedy this Richardson, the ooacb., will place, him ia a double scullingboat with one of the brothers until he h&a adapted nimatlf to the Pieton crew's style. Sxdnet, May 8. The New Zealand rowing, crew are mating, excellent progress, and look fit for anything. Daly i% rapidly picking, np the SeTtnaur8 r style, 'and Richardson -tbeeet'ore find's ib unnecessary te give him practico in a double-sculling boati. Stdnby, May 11. The local critics' d y o noli admire the style of 'the New Zealand crew, bub think if' tney can. stay tbe distance (two miles -'and a-quarter) they will give a good accouut of themselves. 1 This- week's doings of the eighi-oa/ed crews ! overshadows the fbuw. The Victorian and ; New Zetland four-oared crews were out to-day. ! The. former showed brilliant form, and were at once installed favourites. Tho New Zealanders are regarded as too slow of action, but the mea themselves are satisfied ths/can get snSoient 1 speed to render a xood account of themselves*