A NOVEL FOOD FOR THE PEOPLE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 171, 30 August 1879, Page 3

A NOVEL FOOD FOR THE PEOPLE.

Mr. Frank Auckland has communicated the following to the London « Fishing Gazette’ of a rccoM date:— 11 JS few" davs since- two specimens ci cetaceans, caikd largo porpoises or young whales, were exhibited by iuessvs. Lio\e and Messrs. Gilson, fish merchants, Bond-street. Thee were caught at Eanwgate, having probably Ldlowea some hemebouud ships from the open ocean. They turned out to he the butllenosed dolphin, Delplmms Tursio. The College of Burgeons and the Museum at Oxford having already specimens of tins cetacean, the fish merchants have some difficulty Jn . getting rid of these purchases. An enterprising fishmonger obtained one of them ; and, wishing to make his money, cut it up 1 utchcr-Uice fashion into chops and Hl'-aks, whicn he sold atvid. a, i pound. Thwo pcrpoisoiiko creatures are not uncommon >o t-io coast of England. They do much damage to the salmon at the mouth of Usk. ° Timin' arc oho huge enceinions I of iho grampus Kind to t-o found m tue mouth of \he Humber, . and . are so destructive to the wdmon, hunuag tneai and dispersing them m-ioro incy g‘p the nets in the that tire lornshire Salmon Fishery Board have gone to the expense of an immense not to catch them. Those sca-pigs are, however, too artful. On tue last- occasion when.the net was set the iasca.s mined up the Trent before arriving at the trap laid for them.. My secretary, -inr, beam-, informs me that no • inn- many times eaten porpoise, ams tout wucu uie tean .part .is eat without touching tiic fat •that it is very good mm hsco a tender rump.steak, only ol a sngi.uy on.ia.ci colour. Tl;e-eating of seal or porpoise flesh by soauu-n- Is of the greMcsf service in .preventing - scurvy,- Oaptam Amy, of ■the whak v rvclijiso, n.-cs seen nlcsn extensively both in tin 1 mneers alia sailors’ muss, and strongly’ rccouiuicnds it as an an»,idotc. c<> scurvy to an so;-, captains.” In connection with Am Frank ikickhmd’n note we give the following account which appexraa -in tno e Liverpool Advertiser’, Pend*, lbo3, quoted in 11 piscatorial Iloininiscences.” “ Cumouo Occui.xkxoe. —On buaday afternoon, between live.- and six o'clock, several individuals who wore standing on the shore heneatn t!ic culls, opposite hfew Brighton, ohs-rved u singular appcaixmee on the water near the muiitli of the river. On looking more, intently, thev discovered that the surface, as Lias the organs oi vision could extend, Was literally alive with an Immense shoal of porpoises, which were rolling forward with a most rapacious lapiuity, in pursuit of, apparently, a not less numerous Hock oi salinon. Inc lairoi, in- their terror, and to avoid their assailants kept continually leaping Lorn the water, and, as their dripping senes glittered in the bright rays oi tue sun, added su indescribable interest to a scene at once so curious cud uncommon ; the •chase was continued up the river until distance hid both the salmon and tueir pursuers from tin; keu ol the spectators.” The following twstrinomm <n a ccriain patent medicine speaks u«r ■Sir : Two months ago my who could scarcely speak, kin; has taken two bottles'of your ; Life Bcncwcr,’ aiM now she can t sneak at a-i. f ma.-i . nn two more buttles, I wv.Unu t ■■■' witnout " The WarvicLhiro minor.? declare that the award of the umpire in the w,-.g..;is dispa'v mcvum sdirvaSion tor them.