CALIFORNIA SALMON.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 284, 30 November 1877, Page 2

CALIFORNIA SALMON.

To the Editor ok the « Evening Mail.' Sib,— l hope there will be no disappointment experienced by the disciples of Isaac Walton in the colony anent the " California Salmon." Many of your readers may not know that tha California Salmon is not a '' Salmo ' at all. It is only a salmbn by courtesy because ifc has red flesh which is not so delicate a3 that of the king of fish", nor has it anything of the shape, o*: 'beautiful silvery sides, nor are its habits like the true salmon of Europe and North America "Salmo Salar." It is entirely a river fish resembling a carp as much as a salmon, never goes to the sea, and is far too large a fish to find shelter in the Maitai, or any other similar mountain stream. It is, I believe, peculiar to the Sacramento and its tributaries, the San Joaquin, &c, emptying into the bay of San Francisco, and some rivers south of the Bay. The true salmon is not seen much south of the Columbia which is 800 miles north of San Francisco, but swarms in incredible quantities at certain seasons in the Columbia, the Eraser, and other rivers of British Columbia and the American possessions to the North.— l am, &c, G. E. N. , P.S.— Would it not be better to try to acclimatise the lobster and edible crab. I fear the great number of spinous and voracious fish that appear to swarm on our coasts will never allow the salmon to flourish to any extent. "*=a We take the following notices of changes in legal firms from our West Coast exchanges:—Mr A. R. Guinness, barrister and solicitor, has entered into partnership with Mr E. G. B. Moss, of Auckland, tho business being conducted in future under the style of Guinness and Mo3s. The firm has opened an office in Broadway, Reefton. — Messrs Button and Reid, solicitors of Hokitika, contemplate retiring from their practice at Hokitika, and establishing themselves at Reefton with a branch of their office at Greymouth. Steps are being taken to Wellington to form a Deep Sea Fishery Company. The Argus of Monday says:— When the inevitable time cornea in the House of Representatives for the slaughter of the innocents there will be a perfect heap of material to work upon. The order paper contains forty-fiFe orders of the day and thirty-seven notices of motion at present. Mr Smith, of Otaki, has just prepared a piece of grouud for a rice plantation. Mr Smith, despite his essentially English cognomen, hails from the land ofthe "Heathen Chinee." gfßhetoric in places is a big thing. A writer the other day went into a newspaper office and said :—" I've got an article on Mahomet for some paper that spells it that way." He was immediately kicked dowustairs, for he had gone into a Mohamet office. Then he climbed up stairs into a Mahomined office, and was let out on the fire escape gently, but positively. Next he struck a magazine where the proof-readers were partisans of the old school of Muhammed, and he went sadly away. One man whom he met on the stairs of a religious but practical journal informed him that Mehemet Was the style there. An hour after he was seen to be let down the coal hole of a Mohammed establishment. Parents should always teach their children how to spell.