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Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1909, 18 June 1869, Page 2

The Provincial Solicitorship.— It’s notified in the Gazette that Mr B. C. Haggitt has been appointed Provincial Solicitor, the appointment to date from the 6th Instant.

Public Meeting.—We understand that the General Government has refused the use of the New Post Office Hr.U for the pnb l ic meeting proposed to be held, on the subject of the loan. Congregational. At a church meeting of the Independent Church, assembfing for worship in Moray place, an invitation to the Rev. Mr Johnston to become pastor of the Church was unanimously adopted, which Mr Johnston accepted. Benevolent Asylum. —The following is the fortnightly report of this Institution :—Admitted during the fo tn’g'ot, four pe "ous, two girls and two boys ; discharged none. Present inmates : 3 old men, 1 woman, 26 boys, and 24 girls—total, 54. Denomination : Church of England, 31; Presbyterian, 9 ; Roman Catholic, 8 ; Wesleyan 3 ; other denominations, 3. Cm-door relief : 7 old men, 39 women, and 107 children—total, 153. Denomination : Church of England, 42 ; Presbyterian, 65 ; Roman Catholic, 25 ; Wesl yau, 16 ; other denominations, 5. The sum disbursed weekly was £ll 19s 6d.

The Trout Experiment. — Those interested in the c-'uae of accl : ma!i’&ation will he glad to ’earn that another attempt, made by Mr Cliffo d, the Acclimatisation Society’s manager, to transport some of the young trout from the breeding ponds to one of the rivers of the Province, has been a thorough success. Yesterday morning he left town ■with 61 trout, a’l that remained in the ponds, rnd p’aced them in the head waters of the Waikoiudti r’iver, without the loss of a single fish. The unqualified success which has the experiment so far, canuot be otherwise than gratifying to the Acclimatisat:on Society, and the public. To Mr Clifford, to whose energy and zeal the success is mainly owing, tire thanks of both tbe society and the public are due. Out of the 700 ova i mported, nearly the whole were hatched ; and fully fifty per cent, live fish were placed : n the rivers of the Province. This result ought to encourage the society to make another experiment this year.

The Opuha Quartz Reefs. — We Rear that Messrs Thew and Thurgood are contemplating a trip this week to the scene of their late discoveries in the Opuha Gorge. They will start, we understand, well provided with tools and necessaries, and Mr Tripp, of the Orari Gorge Station, has lent them two mules for packing. We wish the men all success in their undertaking, but we fear they will find the snow a great barrier to their making a successful prospect. Some of the storekeepers in Timaru have come forward, we believe, and presented the prospectors with stores, to enable them to test the quartz as far as practicable at this season of the year. —Timaru Herald,

Fire at Christchurch. —A telegram in the Timaru Herald, dated Tuesday, 5 p.m., states :—A four-roomed house on the East town belt was destroyed by fire last night, belonging to Mr Hughes. The family had difficulty in escaping. The furniture was destroyed. The fire was accidental. The house wes insured for one hundred and forty pounds. The Political Situation. The Waikouaiti Herald conclu’e ; an article on the Native war, thus :—The Government has set its mind upon borrowing another million and a half to prosecute the war. The Opposition contains in its ranks many men who will stoutly refuse to consent ,to the Middle Island being burfchened with a share of this liability. But—let our readers mark our words—the Opposition as a body is of the same mind as the Government, except upon the s : ngle cju 'tion who is to have the spending of the money, and management of the wa<*. The leading journal of the Opposition in Wellington is of this mind—Mr Fox has the same opinion. A majority of our easy-going representatives will see no help tor it. We shall have to pay. Loud voices ought to be pvompt l y raised from every corner of the country against this monstrous injustice. Fortunately there never was a time when there was more unanimity of feeling amongst the people of this Island than at present, whatever may be the case wnh their representatives. The men of Canterbury will no longer be found casting a damper on the cause of Separation, or some other arrangement to free this is ( and from further war contributions, as they have unfortunately so often done when the cry has been raised in this Province. Public meetings are being organised in more than one place abeady. Do the people of this district feel strongly on this matter? If they do, should not steps at once be taken to give expression thereto.

Acclimatization op Salmon and Trout in Tasmania. —The following letter on this subject from Mr Gould, in Land and Water, will be read with interest, and is especially deserving of attention from the salmon experimentalists in New Zealand : My dear Buckland —No one but you -self and our ind: "atigable friend, Mr Youl, could be more pleased than I was this mornmg, when I received a letter from my son Charles (who, as you are aware, is making a geological survey of Tasmunia for the Government), dated Jan. 2, 1869, in which he says Mr Morton Allport caught for our chrb dinner to the Governor, four trout, weighmg together ISlbs, a very pretty d’sh of fish even for England. The Derwent will be thrown open for angling in the course of a few days, when we may nope to hear of some large captures, and possibly see our first salmon hooked. You will perceive by this latter passage that no salmon have yet been caught, and I still adhere to the opinion I have often expressed to you that, in my time at least, we shall never hear of this part’ally sealoving tish being established in the Australian waters. To render tae attempt successful, I am qu’te sure that no trout nor any other prevatory fish should be introduced into the same river, in which respect a great mistake has been made in Tasmania. Let this limt be taken advantage of when attempting the introduction of sa'mon into the rivers of New Zealand, in wh’ch country and Tasmania only is time any c'.’.a >ce of success. The trout, I have already told you, might be acc'hnatised. and so also, I thnik, may the char on the deep isolated mountain lakes in both countries. None of the rivers of the Australian continent are, in ray opinion, adapted either for trout or salmon. The introduction of the trout I consider to he a very great boon to the Tasmanians, hue that of the salmon, if ever it be effected, will be a vastly more important one. Many Au traUaus even now, I believe, spend some of their summer montlu in the more temperate island of Tasmania, and if to its other attractions that of sa'mon fishing and saknoa eating be added, it would doubtless be resorted to by far greater numbers. It certainly possesses the finest climate I ever had the good fortune to live in, and the air of no olace nearer than home could be more ge dal and iuv : ,orating to the Australians than that of this, to them, southern sanatarium. Sincerely wishmg k,e Australians and Mr Youl may be rewarded for their exertions, I remain, my dear Buckland, ever yours sincerely, John Gould.”

We have beeu requested to draw attention to the fact that the sailing of the Phcebe for the Bluff has been altered from Monday to tomorrow. We would remind our readers that Mr J. G. Joyce’s benefit takes place at the Princess Theatre this evening.

The usual Assembly of the Dunedin Quad, ille Club will be held at the Odd ellows’ Ha l !, this evening, at eight o’clock.