Round the World and back Again.

Manawatu Herald, 20 June 1899, Page 2

Round the World and back Again.

A Home paper says : —Three M symmetrical rectangular parallelopipedg of ica lie on a slab at the Royal Aquarium, with here and there a fin, a head, or a tail, peeping

coyly forth from th?m. " Beauuful sight isn't it? "said Mr Wilkison, the aquarium secretary. " Touching example of (he fraternal spirits that pervades the Empire, and unites its fathesfc limits to the Mother Country." Mr Wilkison was right for here snugly froz?n up, were some thirty salmon tront which, three months ago, were frisking about in a rushing New Zealand stream. "As fresh as the day they were caught," he went on. "If you like to wait half an hour, I'll have one cooked for you. No ? Well, it does seem a pity to disturb them, they look so peaceful, don't they ? The beauty of the thing is thai; these fi j b caught in a British colony, are really British in a donblo sense. A few years ago the Waitaki and Waimata Acclimatisation Rociety had some salmon ova from British streams sent out to them for breeding purposes. The experiment was a great success, nnd here are some of the products — returned fco the land of their ancestors British fish, caught by British hands, in a British colony, brought Home by the all British route, and exhibited at British Aquarium.