GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXI, Issue VIII, 22 August 1903, Page 523

GENERAL NEWS.

Messrs Alt East and James Kidd, of Rsglan, bagged 178 pigeons as a result of eleven hours’ shooting on the last two days of the season. The birds are, for some unaccountable reason, not in Buch good condition as usual this year.

The Masterton hatcheries have experienced a very bad season in netting and ova collecting. In the IVaipoua River the curator’s nets were‘swept away fifteen times by the floods, and for as long as a fortnight at the best time he was ■unable to puts nets in owing to the continued freshes. The stripping of the brown trout has been completed, but hot that of all the rainbow trout.

Fumigation is a very necessary precaution, but apparently it Is carried out in a very careless manner in some places in New Zealand, and much damage is caused in consequence (says the “Wanganui Herald”). For instance, we were shown recently a parchment deed, sent from South Africa to a local solicitor, which as the result of gross carelessness in fumigation was reduced almost to a pulp and almost destroyed.

Mr Felix Tanner’s project of circumnavigating the globe in a barrel (says the “Taranaki Herald”) is being put Into practical form. He is now building the boat in his yard in South-road, and has finished the barrel-shaped hull, the keel, mast and cabin fittings. The balance of the work consists of “odds and ends,” as Mr Tanner put it. He expects to exhibit the craft iti a week or so, and will then launch her for her voyage.