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Southland Times, Issue 677, 31 May 1867, Page 2

i The Bishop of New. Zealand, accompanied by Mrs Selwyn and their "youngest son, leave fof ' England by the July steamer via Panama. His Lordship has been summoned to England by th* Archbishop of Canterbury, to attend the Anglican* * Conference to be held in September. - Thefollowing is from the "Ovens Constitu tion "?-r-" About six weeks baclc, Mr T. Ellis, of the Yackandandah -Saw-mill, was on the bank of the Little Biver, when he saw at the bottom of a pool of. clear water an enormous fish. He threw out his line, property baited, but thd fish treated all offers with supreme contempt. Mr Ellis determined to wade in. Accordingly, he did so, and a little boy who was with him followed. As the pool was surrounded by a bank which the water scarcely covered, there was no chance . of the fish escaping, and accordingly he began to show fight, and for one mortal half-hour fisherman and fish went at it like Sayers and Heenan.* Twice ihe fish got the best of it, and gave his opponent "Severe blows on tho Jeg with his tail. At length Mr Ellis, .who is a powerful and deter < mined man, managed to catch hold of the fish, by the gills, flung him out of the water, and brought him in triumph to Yackandandah. On being weighed, his fish-ship, a fine Murray cod, was found to be more than thirty-five; pounds in weight/ --■■'-