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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1913, 22 November 1913, Page 5

Reports of tho expanse and richness of much of tho hind in the most Northern Territory of Australia are inducing a, good number of New Zealand people to venture tliat Way. This was discovered quite accidentally yesterday through a BostiNiOtf reporter being informed tlvat an ev.tire fafliily, nine members in all, front Tokofflarti, were leaving that day .for Sydney by tho tnimar-oa, en 'route for I'ort Darwin. On inquiry, being made 'at Messrs; Theinss Cook and Son, tourist agents, it was ascertained that quite a number of people Jia-c'f booked to Port Darwin ' during tho past year, with tho -express purpose of settling on the- land. Tagging trout is an interesting process of which the average man knows little, It is earned out by tho Acclimatisation Societies by affixing a little numbered silver t!»s with a wire to the dorsal fin of a trout which has been weighed and measured, -arid then liberating it. Several of those . teas wore brought tn tho meeting of the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society this week, and the record showed that the trout h-nd made good nrogress. A strange coincidence was that two trout tagged on June 8,1.01.2, were caught oii November Sof this yeav. The Valuable feature of tho experiment was that stripped fish were cauglit, thus disproving the some'what- persistent belief that stripped fish die wllen liberated. A light-fingered person wlio had a netioii of the gnt>ripli>quipl: ordeh s-ltn>-ned into the upstairs etoak-rdnm rif the Town Halt during the yierfonnanse of "Judas Maccabueus" last nijjht, and purloined moral Indies' and gentle* men's clonks and costs. A littlo later a man was espied in Cuba Street laden with coats, etc., and was arrested. He will face the_ Magistrate this morning. The castor oil plant is quite orimuipntol. In temperate climates it prows to n height of 4ft. or sft., while in warm latitudes it ;;ro«'s nr.icli Inr-pcr. Allliiuisli the odour from it is not fliMjlT-e----o'llr tn tiuiTMi-j hftincs, it drives ".way nuuonitoos and o.tier" ineeoif.