LINE & TRIGGER

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XII, Issue 709, 8 October 1903, Page 13

LINE & TRIGGER

The Ballarat Fish Acclimatisation Society laid down last year 50,000 eggs obtained from New Zealand, and some 60,000 or 70,000 of their own stripping, but the water trouble was worse than any previous year, and fully one-half of this number was lost just when they were coming on to feed. For days there was no flow of water through the ponds, and the society did well, under the circumstances, to raise the number of yearlings they did —between 6000 and 7000. Jn order to save their stock fish the fire brigade on several occasions pumped water into the nonds from the lake.

A fish story conies from the Mediterranean .with very circumstantial details. It is this. The captain of the steamer Benalder, of Leith, having thrown overboard a biindle of twenty old letters in the Mediterranean on his voyage to China, they have been recovered in a remarkable manner. Some fishermen noticing a corpulent fish amongst their catch opened it and found a bundle of letters. They took them to the Mayor of Aguilos, a Spanish fishing town, who delivered them to the British Consul. He, upon examination, found only one letter decipherable, and he has just forwarded it to the writer, Captain Potter, the superintendent in London, as he thought the peculiar circumstances of its recovery might, interest him.