ACCLIMATIZATION.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 99, 23 November 1868, Page 281

ACCLIMATIZATION .

Wis 'take the /following from ,- the ■.Hew Zealand Herald,>of the 16th :r—', It' will he* 1 ' in the ' recollection ‘‘of our J readers that Captain Copping,’ of the Sella- Mary, .brought over from ■ Tasmania %Jarge.nu“.ber i qf,frogß„ ! and snails, for the Acclimatization Society of Auckland. , A large propo tion of , the frogs, and the whole 1 of a-lot of tench that were shipped on died during the passage. Capt. Copping believes this unfortunate result to have been occasioned by the tubs in whioh the tench and frogs were conveyed, being made of'new pine. -The snails ar rived in ; good order; they are fresh water; molluscs,.and are imported for the purpose of turning into' the Acclimatization Society’s ponds, Ac., in order.to keep the clear by consuming the refuse of decayed vegetable matter. Another attempt is to be ; made to procure tench and carp, and :on the next ; occasion they will be placed .in glass globes, and slung from the ship’s ,‘beams. Captain Copping-is being at considerable trouble in acclimatization matters; and is conferring great obligations upon the Society and the Province, by conveying these fish, &c., free of all expense. When the breeding ponds are prepared for the hatching of trout and salmon, Captain CoppiDg will probably bring over the ova from Tasmania;

The Nelson Evening Mail of thei4th inst. states:—“Mr Huddleston informs us that he haß received a communication from Mr E. Butt, the hon. secretary to the. Southland Acclimatization Society, which shows that we may regard ourselves especially fortunate in the result of the trout ova experiment in ‘this province. Mr Butts states that, a large number, of the ova brought to Invercargill for the Southland Society about the same time as those obtained for the Nelson Society have not been hatched ; and. altbough it is said that about 600 have been hatched, there seems every probability- that this is an excessive calculation, from the difficulty experienced,in. arriving .at a correct esti. mate o?lhe' number of ypuug fish. It is intended by the Southland Society that t-he trout shall be distributed amongst the various streams of the province immediately, about fifty being reserved for artificial breeding.”

According to the latest Southland papers the trout ova, recently imported into the. province from Tasmania are hatching in the most satisfactory manner. The, manager of the Otago Acclimatization Society,.Mr Clifford,,reported.^ to the Council that:,72-4 young trout.” were ■ o.ut’; three of the number were deformed, and two of, the trout had since died. - Upon cleaning out the boxes, he found 20 dead ova. ’

Dr Macdonald, the surgeon of the Blue Jacker, which arrived at Lyttelton a few days ago, has brought out a consignment of Euglish birds, consisting of chaffinches, larks, starlings, green and.grey linnets, silver pheasants,. &c. At a meeting of the Canterbury Acclimatization Society, held on the 30th ult., a letter was read from Mr Holt, of Auckland, offering Cape geese, English pheasants, Californian quail and beagles to the society, but as all the available funds being required for the' purchase of insectivorous birds, the offer was declined.