BANK NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2503, 12 March 1902, Page 54

BANK NOTES.

The Pomahaka — Trout fishers have not had ;l very good time on -the Pomahaka of late, as the rhcr is too low for angling. The river and tributaries are swarming with fish this ecaEon. The Ashburton.— Messrs W. and J. Tern's md G. T. Mitchell returned from the mouth Df the Ashburton River on Monday morning with 37 trout, weighing in the aggregate 70ib. The largest fUh scaled a little over 121b. Mr W. W. Smith succeeded in getting a basket of particularly nire fish from the Aishburton River in the vicinity of the Sparadegh. — Lyttelton Timc c , sth inst. | Another Great Trout — One of the largest trout ever taken out of the Oreti with the bare fly was hooked and landed by Mr Jules H. Tapper recently. The fish weighed 141b, wai 2tt fin '.onq, giith 17m. The captor had a good 50 minutes' i-pmt before landing hi-3 prize, with the assistance of Mr Wyinks. The fly usrcl was the March brown. "Ju'cs" says he looked like the man in the coclliver cil advortiseiiic.it as he carried the fish to the buggy The trout was in "kapai" condition. — Exchange. Salt-water Fish.— The Western Star of the- 6th inst. says small fiah of all kinds have been very numerous in the harbour— For «=overal days past large shoals of mullet have been frequenting the bridge, and the small hoy made grand hauls. The abundance of " food attracted numerous sharks, and a very large o.ic was r.een in the harbour on Tues-. day. In the Straits, blue cod have been phenomenally plentiful On Monday one boat caught scwt, and on Tuesday the haul weighed 7cwt. Two other boats were equally : puce^e-Cu!. (schoolboy Poachers.— The Wellington Acr'imatisatioa Society has decided to send a circular to teachers in country districts, (.'.rawing their attention to the poaching of trout by schoolboy?, and offering a reward of £5 for any conviction —[A letter on this .subject wi'.' be found elst'.vhere in the Lommn. — J.S.J 1 Guessing Competition at the Wyndham Horticultural Society's Show —The following are the weights of the three takes of ful: shown at the Wyndham Horticultural Society's show (the prizes being 15s, 10s, nnd ss): John Greenfields, 33 fish, 221b 3oz : .7 Tough. 8 fish, 171b 15oz ; H. C. Allan. 7 fish, 41b 15oz. Hea\iest fish, 21b 12oz. Mr Tough* ; Mr Greenxhic'lds's being but loz less. Mr Tough pot the special j>\ize for this and also for the be=t average Only ihrce put in their takes out of 10 •entrants. One hundred a>id twenty-four m(hviduaW tool; part in *!ie guessing competition. Of the weicr'-.t of Mr Greenshields'is take Mr A. Cunningham's was the nearest guCbb (221b soz), Mr A. Lnmsden's (211b 8oz) being next. Mrs R. A. Elliot. Miss 'Agnes Dodd, and Messrs W. -T. Currie and (R. Ytning guessed 181b as the weight of Mr Tough's fish, and divided the take. Mr G. Cusbnie guessed 51b for Mr Allan's take, iind won. Salmon Ova by the Gothic. — Yesterday the Uotomahana brought from Wellington 12 cases of salmon ova containing 150,000 eggs, .which were shipped from Home by the Gothic. They were taken from the river Tay at the Howietown hatcheries, and are to be put in the Government hatcheries at Hakataramea. They were taken couth by the express yesterday by Mr L. F. Ayson, inspector of fisheries. Another consignment of 5f1.000 ova- in expected in about a

fortnight by the Paparoa. — Lyttelton Times, 4th inst. The North Otago Times of the sth inst. says : — Mr Ayson arrived in town yesterday morning with the 150,000 Scotch salmon ova, per the Gothic, and went on to Hakataramca by last night's train. Mr Ayson says the ova have, ro tar as he can see, arrived ir. good condition. Young Salmon. — Mr A. M'Lean informs the secretary of the Acclimatisation Society that the young salmon turned into the creek at the old ferry on Mr Jno. M'Lean's Waitaki Plains estate are thriving. He has seen a number of the fish, which have grown well, and are in good condition. This is very satisfactory. — North Otago Times, sth inst. The Right to Fish the River Thames.— The public right to fish in the river Thames was duly ventilated lately when a largely attended meeting was held at the Holborn Restaurant, Mr R. C. Lehmann, late editor of the Daily News, in the chair. A motion to the effect that the meeting desired to express its regret at the constant, efforts to curtail the public rights and privileges by the peculiar and vexatious claims which are periodically made in and over the River Thames was adopted. Mr J. R. Walker, of the Sheffield Anglers' Association, in supporting the resolution, said 16,000 members of that association were so far advanced fl3 to -demand the abolition of all riparian rights.