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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2344, 6 October 1870, Page 2

To Correspondents.—Mr Clark’s letter was received tpo late for insertion in to-night’s issue. It will appear to-morrow.

The English Mail. —The Tarania, with the English mail via Suez on hoard, arrived at Hokitika at six o’clock this morning. The Waipara at once went out to tender her, hut missed the tide, and would not he able to get into the river before dusk. We are therefore without our usual telegrams.

Sudden Death. —We (Waikouaiii Herald) regret to hear that Mr Hunter, of Mocraki, died very suddenly on Thursdav last. Almost without warning, he fell down dead, it is supposed from apoplexy. Theatrical. —Barlow, of “bluetail fly ” celebrity, has returned to bis old quarters, after some years spent i i sugar planting in Queensland. He purposes making a tour through Victoria, and then visiting New Zealand. Re-Union of Otago and Southland. —The re-union of the two Provinces took place to-day, and in Dunedin excited but litt'e attention. The royal standard floated over the Government buildings during the day in honor of the event. In Southland the Provincial Government kept holiday. A Correction. — An accidental error has been brought under our notice by a correspondent, which we gladly correct. _ Vesterday sve published a paragraph stating that a deputation from the Wakari School Committee waited on the Superintendent. It should have been the Kaikora School ; and we arc informed that bis Honor said the sum voted should be expended as soon as possible. Liberal Remuneration. —lt is stated in the U.rhrkhjc Time* that two medical gentlemen have recently been appointed to the Uxbridge Union—one, Mr Vipon, to the Hillingdon district, at a salary of LllO ayear, or Is 7|d a-day ; the other, Mr King, to the Uxbridge and Ickenham district, at a salary of Loo a-ycar, or Is lid a-day—both gentlemen Laving to lino, their own medicines. The pay of the Hillingdon postman is 2s a-day, and he has nothing to find.

AccLimnsATioN Society. The weekly meeting of the council of this society was held this afternoon. Present—Messrs Murison (in the chair), Eecks, Garrick, Hepburn, Turton, and Captain Boyd. The manager reported that all the tish were hatched out, with the exception of four brown trout, which, however, looked well, 'these hatched out, looked remarkably well. He requested that the fish might be counted out, and Mr Murison and Captain Boyd were appointed for that purpose. The receipt ol a tui from Mr A. E. Smith, was acknowleddf'ed. Among the correspondence read was °a letter, with reference to sericulture, from Dr. Bennett, New South Wales. Mr Morton Allport, Tasmania, wrote, urging upon the society the absolute necessity for the construction of a suitable breeding pond for trout. Tbe common trout, says Mr Allport, being non-migratory, and vury local, may be turned into a stream in comparatively small numbers with a strong probability of success, but with the migratory species, the case is far different, the mere handful of salmon trout which we have sent you, would, if turned out and left to their own resources, assuredly fail, for a proportion of them must come to grief, either in the river or ses f and the residue would be little likely ever to meet on the spawning beds at tbe expiration of the three years which must elapse before they bred, but' if you regard this stock as parent fish to be kept back in a suitable breeding pond till the winter of 1573, you .will then be independent of any further supply, and can rear fish enough to send them to sea in such numbers as to insure success.” Mr J. KobertsonStewart, of Vancouver Island, in a letter addressed to Messrs H. Houghton and Co., wrote, offering to cooperate in any gßcmnt to forward American salmon to Otago. The wrft.e? states that salmon ova can ho collecte.d iq_ guy qnantity for all the rivers in the island to teem with salmon ; and although ova has never hern collected for breeding purposes, nevertheless he does not anticipate there would be much difficulty in doing so. Dr Comric, E.M., who lias been on the station fpr the last five or six years, and has' devoted much attention to the study of the natural resources of the Colony, at Mr Stewart’s suggestion wrote some interesting particulars in regard to tjro ovp,. On the subject of seeds, Mr Koberson writes ;—“ Wo have no similar society here to your Acclimatisation Society, but there are parties who arc well qualified and very willing to make a collection of our native seeds in consideration of receiving in exchange similar collections from your Colony. In the collection of seeds I would cause to be included some of our grass seeds, especially that of the “bun.li grass,” which is a native of the mainland, and is held in high estimation on accoont of its hardy, natural, and rich fattening qualities.” it was stated that the letters from Vancouver’s Island had been in of the Government for nearly six mouths. Mr Young wrote that there were more fish iii his pond at Pleasant Eivcr than he had anticipated,. The members of the Naval Brigade arc summoned to attend the commanding officer’s parade to-morrow (Friday) evening, in front of the Custom House, at 7.30 Every member is requested to be present. We have been requested to state that Mr J. S. Webb will deliver a lecture this evening, at St. Paul’s Sunday School, South Dunedin, under the auspices of the Youths’ Mutual Improvement Society. Subject—“ Solar Observations.”