ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

Evening Star, Issue 3659, 13 November 1874, Page 2

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

At a meeting of the council of the Acclimatisation Society yesterday, the manager reported that a number of the young trout weie ready for distribution, and it was de-

cided that he should proceed to the country districts cn Monday next with 2,000 fish The streams into ivhich the fish are to be placed include Lovcl’s Creek, Fraser’s Creek, Pnom a, Wai-apcka, Ivaibiku, WaiweFa, Kuriwao, aud Wairuna. On his return to town Mr Deans will again proceed south with about the same number of fish, leaving some at Tokomairiro for the Akatore River"; proceed by way of Lawrence to the Beaumont, into the tributaries of which several hundred trout will be liberated, and next t-> the Pomahaka and its tributaries. It is probable that a third trip will have to be made to the southern part of the Province this season, so tha k . all the suitable streams may be stocked. Mr Deans takes with h’m a largo quantity of perch ova, and this will bo ’ given to the settlers on the route for stocking lagoons that are suitable for this kind of fish. The report of ‘the Society’s ranger slat d that within the past mouth Mr Gray has visited the various locilibics in the neighborhood of Dunedin where birds have been turned out, and from personal observation, aided by information received from the settlers, he is able to state toat *■ during the "ast four weeks no person worthy of particular notice has been seen who would be likely to destroy or molest the Society’s birds, which appear to be getting plentiful in some places ; particularly pheasants, in the locality commencing at Logan’s Point and extending along the range towards Port Chalmers.” "Blackbirds and thrushes are becoming numerous on both sides of the harbor between Dunedin and the Port, and in the neighborhood of Creen Island and the shain Hills part idges are rapidly accumulating, the locality being well suited for them. An application from. Marlborough for trout, and one from Hawke’s Bay for bares, were granted, in the event of the Society being able to do so. A letter from Mr Warden Beefhanj was read, returning thank*

1° 'ho Society for the perch which had been forwarded to the Wakatipu district. Ihe lish, he stated, had been placed in a pond about five acres in eKteiit, with a mud bottom and gravelly aides. An endeavor would bo Dtade to ?tock all tho small lake* ia tbc district ag as possible, leaving the large lake; for a more valuable kind of fish*