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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 323, 7 May 1875, Page 3

It is greatly feared that: the TVhole of the salmon ova received by the Timaru has proved lifeless. - From the entite absence in the eggs of eveii the signs of life—suehasthe eyes of the young fishj whicih were to be seen, ill previous-shipments—it is conjectured that, even had the Timaru made a good voyage, the result would still have been— The causes are being credible, hypothesis has yet beeli started; The ice kept good all the way—one foot of solid ice being found above: the top box when the shipment was broken* The District Engiheerj T ; Fergus, Esq., has), we are glad to learn, reported most fa* vorably on the proposed road from Alexan= dra to the Waikai Bush; With the excep tion of the extreme top of the Old Man range, which is swampy; the formation of the road presents no. difficulty, and could be constructed the • entire distance —eighteen 01? twenty miics—for about £2OOO. The suri rounding district presents an-excellent market for timber, and the necessity of tlie im= mediate 'construction' of this road should }j§ ' strongly urged upon the Govcllimeht: