THE SALMON OVA.

Evening Star, Issue 3795, 23 April 1875, Page 2

THE SALMON OVA.

[Br Telbojeuph.] BiiUiv,'April 22. After tedious delay and the interchange of innumerable telegrams, orders were at fast issued under a special proclamation by thb Superintendent to land the salmon ova fiqip the ship Tunaru this morning. Upon thja being communicated to. Captain ttanlrin 0 f tje runaxu, he, after conferring— at quarantine distance—with Mr Howard, the Curator df the' Southland Acclimatisation Society,under, took the breaking out of the ova. A boat was immediately sent off to receive the boxes. JR to unpack them, ihe me was in splendid condition, although Captain Rankin states that i^ th L^ Pl<^ l ®i^ mp " rature on tho deck was UO deg. Mr Howb'd optmed ene 'iT 'the i j° l ee ot the ;ovaifiAd selected a box that hauueen slightly and found that the ova were net decomposed but opaque, wlule the sphagnum moss waadkl colored. Mr Howard says that the boi he opened at the request of Captain Rankin ton. tamed some of the ova first taken, and that t.bk appearance led him w believe that the Ova h55 not been impregnated. The train which ooSfc veyed the ova from the Bluff airived at Invert cargill at about a quarter to seven in the evan- “«• Mr Howard, the Curator, and Mr Wood, wie President of the Southland Acolunitis&tion Society, then decided that it would be desk. able to cease operations until morning,, as it “npossible to remove the ova from the Wallaoetown Station to the ponds dark. Two boxes, only have .been opened. One contained some of the ova earliest and the other some-of the ova taken by Hr BuoMand himself. All those in the first bfa examined were opaque, and only one of these m, the second box was clear.. This one, Mb Howard, on applying the Jmlorosoopio i test, round to be unimpregnated.—* Daily