ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1724, 29 August 1879, Page 3

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

A meeting of the Acclimatisation Society was held at the Commercial Hotel yesterday afternoon, there being present, Mr Hill (in the chair), Messrs Boyß, Acland, C. R. Blakiston, and Farr (secretary.) The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. The gamekeeper's report, explaining the manner in which he had been employed during the past two monthe, waa read. Letters were read from Mr M. Meehan, Germantown Nurseries, jPhiladelphia, acknowledging receipt of payment for aeeda supplied, regretting that the packing in dry earth, which waa against his own judgment, interfered with the seeds being successful. Mr Lee, Clerk of the Court, Southbridge, informed the Society that a fine of £1 inflicted on Mr R. J. Houston, under the Animals Protection Act, was payable at the Treasury. The aecretary aaid that there were a number of trout due to the Society which had not been paid. The Secretary of the Otago Acclimatisation Society aßked if Canterbury could supply them with any rooks, and as to whether the birda would be beneficial to the farmers or not. The secretary said they had not got enough for themselves. Mr Robert H. Creighton wrote from San Franciaco, stating that he would endeavour to get e"me white or silver trout for Canterbury. The season was ao cold thia year that fiah hatching had been a failure. He would also send some valuable birds this autumn from the Sierras, being in communication with gentlemen about procuring them. He was not sure that he could get any prairie chickens this year. He recommended them to get some catfish from Auckland, as they were excellent food fish, and highly esteemed in America, where they had been introduced somo yearß Mr A. G. Gibbins, Stonyhurßt, wrote requesting to be supplied with some young trout, and the secretary stated that he had written to the effect that fish could be supplied in a week from this. The chairman intimated that Mr F. D. Rich was desirous of some trout being sent to Oamaru, and would endeavour to procure some deer in return. It was moved by Mr Boys, seconded by Mr Acland, and carried' —" That a thousand trout be voted to Mr Rich, in the hope of getting deer in return, to go to Mr Young on behalf of the Oamaru society." Mr Boys stated that the Rangitata river waa swarming with trout. An anonymous letter was received from Templeton, stating that the game laws were not being observed in that locality, as hares and pheasants were being shot in the most reckless manner. It waa agreed that the attention of the gamekeeper should be drawn to the fact. Five hundred trout were voted to be placed in the upper waters of the Waipara.