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Globe, Volume IV, Issue 398, 21 September 1875, Page 3

Carp have at last been introduced into the Hotorua Lake. Tbe feat of introducing them, says- the Ohincrnutu correspondent of the Bay of Plenty Times, was accomplished successfully last week through the forethought and care of Mr J. C. Young, of the Land Purchase Department, who originated the idea of bringing the fish from Taupo Lake, where they are now a great success, and prove a very important addition to the food of the inhabitants there. Mr Jack Loftiey, the popular Taupo guide, undertook the conveyance of carp from Taupo by hand, and many thanks besides the small douceur he received for his trouble are due to him by the public generally. It is to be sincerely hoped that the carp will prove an equal success at Botorua and Kotoiti as at Taupo. The Tarawera, llotokakahi, and- other lake natives are subscribing lor a similar supply for those waters, and this will no doubt be accomplished during the summer. The Waikato Times supplies the following items:—lntelligence has reached us that some of Mr Walker's workmen received a fright yesterday. It appears that they had been employed upon a contract on the very ground upon which poor Timothy Sullivan was murdered. Their fears were excited a few days ago by the bounce of some native youths and old women, who warned them not to continue working. The Europeans were going to resume work at eight o'clock yesterday morning, when they saw some Maoris sitting about a lire in the neighborhood of the contract, whereupon they took to their heels, scarcely stopping to take breath until they reached Rotorangi. It is but right to say that the party includes some new chums. In consequence of the unusually large stock of sawn timber at Mr Gibson's Otaua sawmills, he has considered it necessarv to discharge the greater portion of his hands and stop the mill for a time. This timber has been cut in expectation of a demand in the Waikato, but in the absence of orders, the above course has been determined upon. Twenty-four immigrants, all single men, who arrived in Auckland by the Dover Castle, came up to Hamilton by steamer on Thursday night. Seven were despatched to Cambridge, and the remainder are awaiting employment in Hamilton. »