LAND AND WATER.

Otago Witness, Issue 2685, 30 August 1905, Page 54

LAND AND WATER.

During the recent fine weather large quantities of blue cod have been shipped from Preservation to the Bluff. At present many fishing boats fitted with oil engines »re "engaged in the industry, supplying fish to the Northport Freezing Company.

A Kaikoura fisherman secured in- an hour, by means of line only, fish which Veturned/ him from the Ohristehurch market ihe sum of £3 10s. -' » ' A peculiar disease in the throat of arti-Jicially-reared trout has attracted the attention of the Government experts. Mr Gil*ufch/ the Chief Veterinarian, has been experimenting for some' timo to asoertaan ■whether it is cancer. In order to follow up the systematically, it is proposed to construct a pond, at the Wallacevillo laboratory for keeping trout under observation.

Mr Richard Mitchell, cricket coach for Eton from 1866 to 1897, captain of the Oxford University Cricket Club 1863-1865, -who died on April 19 last, aged 62 yeaa-s, left estate of the gross value of £48,456. with net personality £41,197. Among ihe great cricketers who were formerly his pupils w&re B. J. T. Bosanquet, O. I. Thornton, Lord Harris, the Lyttelton brothers, and the- Hon. Ivo Bligh (Lord l>arnley). Th© teachers of the Wairarapa schools have presented a handsome solid silver challenge shield for shooting competition *mongst the companies forming the Wai-j-axapa Battalion of the Publio School ■Cadets.

• At r.he oouning at Palmerston N. Queen $>l Clubs beat Lord Cardigan in £he final of the Open Stalkes. The Ganger beat Housegirl •an the final of the Supplementary Stake, and Marquis beat Nobleman in the final of the Local Stake.

It is estimated that 7868 people paid for admission to th« football match. Wellington ■#. Australia on Saturday. Th« gross takings were £.439 6s. The Canterbury Acclimatisation Society .jihipped 100,000 trout ova for the Goveriijnent of West Australia. ' A description by the Marlborough Press (Picton) of how a "right" whale was captured on Sunday last at Te Awaite reads "very much like a whale" in respect to on© particular. Describing the event, tho Press says that "the whale was made fast at 8 a.m., and while it was being killed ■the monster rose and lifted the boat out of the water. Mr Thomas Jackson, who handled the lanoe, thereupon jumped over the nose of the boat on to the whale's kearl, iiaid succeeded in Jceeping it down until the boat had been sHsved clear. Fortunately .the wbale was unable to struggle much at

the time, or a. serious accident might have been the result-