ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1067, 28 November 1877, Page 3

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

The usual monthly meeting of the Council of this society "was held yesterday afternoon at the gardens. Present —Sir Cra croft Wilson (in the chair), and Messrs Jameson, Marshman, Farr (lion, sec.), and Dr. Frankish. The Secretary reported 1 hat he had secured a room at Radcliffe’s Hotel, without charge, in which to hold the meetings of the Council. A letter was read from the Hon. J. T. Peacock, Wellington, saying he had made inquiries rc salmon ova, from which he fell certain that the ova purchased by the society, and for which had they paid £s*o, had not yet Arrived in the colony, and that the salmon to hand had been those presented by the Government. Another letter of a later date from Mr Peacock was read, enclosing reply from the Under-Secretary, saying that 200,000 ova had been received for the Auckland society, and that the 50,000 for the Canterbury society promised by Professor Baird had not come to hand. The Secretary read a telegram from the Colonial Secretary’s office, asking the name of the Government officer who had telegraphed to the Canterbury society, that a box containing 100,000 salmon ova had been forwarded to Lyttelton for them. He (Mr Farr) had telegraphed, in reply, that the telegram was signed by Mr Mantell, and that a copy of it had been forwarded to Mr Peacock. A long letter was also read from the Under Secretary, explaining that the salmon ova received were those presented by the Government to the society ; that the Government had kept faith with the society, and asking that the remarks made at the last meeting to the contrary might be withdrawn. It was resolved to thank the Government for the box containing 50,000 ova, and to add that the society were satisfied with the explanation given. Mr Farr said he had received an offer from a gentleman to act as curator for three or four months. In the offer made there had been no mention of terms. Dr. Frankish thought it would be better for the present not to fill up the post. They had a very good and attentive man in the present sub-curator, who could follow out the instructions of the garden committee, and it would, he thought, be advisable for them to go on as they were at present. He would move—- “ That the post be not filled up,” Mr Jameson seconded the motion, which was agreed to. A telegram was read from Mr Fitzroy, of Hastings, asking if any remedy had been discovered for the fungi disease which had appeared amongst the trout. The secretary was instructed to reply that no satisfactory conclusions had yet been arrived at. The secretary reported that the garden committee had liberated thirty-three Californian salmon in the Avon opposite the Government buildings. The fish were twelve months old, and many of them were nine inches in length. The late curator’s list of fish sold from the gardens was read, some of which it was stated were paid for and others not. The secretary was instructed to write to the gentlemen mentioned therein. The secretary said that a Californian salmon nine inches in length had been caught in the north branch of the Waimakariri by Mr Cook. The fish had been returned to the water uninjured. This concluded the business, and the Council adjourned to look over the hatching houses.