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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1387, 10 January 1873, Page 3

Respecting the Tasmanian salmon question—whichhaß long engrossed a considerable amount of public attention— the BalUtmt Star has the following :— " A few weeks ago Dr WHtcombe and Mr Cane left Ballarat for Tasmania with a view to aid as much as they could in establishing the important fact of ' salmon or no salmon. They were singularly unlucky, however, in the weather, as there was as much rain in Tasmania as we have had here. No less than four floods have filled tbe rivers since the salmon were first suspected of leaving the sea for fresh water. As a consequence, our BalLirat anglers had no chance whatever either of hooking or of seeing a salmon, and they had to be content with trout," and very few of them. The? seem convinced, however, that the fish lately caught near Hobart Town are really smolts, and they express no doubt whatever that the true salmon will be caught sooner or later. It is worthy of remark that each successive year tends to increase the faith of those who have watched the experiment of a salmon acclimatisation from the beginning Three of our townsmen, Messrs Wanlus, Whitcombe, and Cane, make almost yearly pilgrimages to Tasmania in search of truth in th« guise of a salmon, and from the first until the present time the faith of one of tbe three at least has never wavered. Every kind of evidence except the most tangible and convincing fact— that of seeing andhandling the royal fish— has been gradu? ally accumulating, until now even the sceptics are beginning to think there may be something in it. Probably the best way to set the matter finally at rest will be to initiate a subscription by which about L2OO or L3OO could be raised and spent in the equipment of two or three experts, who should be despatched to the head\ waters next season, with all necessary appliances for catching a fiah."