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Evening Star, Issue 2907, 13 June 1872, Page 3

The Weather. The severe weather of the last few days seems to have been general in the Southern parts of the Province. A telegram received in town states that snow was knee-deep at Riverton. Literary.— The Congvegationalists of Christchurch have determined upon starting a magazine of their own, in imitation of other provinces of New Zealand and also Australia, where very nourishing periodicals exist. The first number will be published on July Ist. It will be edited by the Rev. W. J. Habens, 8.A., and contain sixteen pages of demy octavo. The contents will comprise—Expository Notes on Scripture, Articles on Current Religious Topics, Allusions to Political Questions in their Religious Aspects, Reports of Departments of our Church Work, Intelligence from Congregational churches at Dunedin and elsewhere, a Children’s Page, Correspondence, &c., and. the price will be threepence. Acclimatisation. —A letter on the subject of salmon acclimatisation, written by Mr R. Ramsbotton to Dr Moore, of New Norfolk, Tasmania, is printed in the Hobart Town Mercury. The writer takes an encouraging view of the subject. He says : I received your letter while in Ireland, for which lam greatly obliged. lam also obliged for the papers, which I anxiously search for the salmon ; but don’t despair—they are as sure to come as the sea and brown trout have done; they only go further out of the way, and take longer to develop themselves than the others. I calculate you will have your first native-bred grilse in the river this season ; but even they will be only from a small quantity of adult fish, so you must not be surprised if you see no great number before the eleventh year from the time they arrived in Tasmania, as it takes four years to develope each crop to a breeding state; but they are as sure as the sun, and all the cormorants in the country will not be able to clear them put,”