THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1906.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8169, 27 June 1906, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1906.

The National Reyiew has been fortunate enough to procure a copy of a telegram sent by the German Kaiser to Count Golouchoaski, the Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary, which the Government at Vienna was naturally anxious to conceal from the public eye; as well it might. The following is tne text of this remarkable document:—"At the moment when, with the oonsent of your most gracious Sovereign, I am sending to Count Welsarsheimb (Austro-Buni garian delegate at Algerciraa) the Grand Gross of the Red Eagle, iu thanks for his successful efforts at Algeoiras, I am impelled to express to you from my heart my sincere th&nks for your unshakable support of my representatives, a fine deed of a true-hearted ally. You have proved yourself to be a brilliant second on the duelling ground, and

you may be certain of similar eervioe in similar oase from me also.— William, Imp. Bex." A? tbe writer in tbe above Review remarks, this telegram "ranks with cbe historic) missive to President Krager, which was a contributory cause of the South African war. Though ostensibly directed to Vienna it was primarily intended for Rome," and conveyed a rebuke to tbe other member of the Triple Alliance for having deolined to aot as a second to Germany likewise, "on tbe duelling ground" at Algeciras; and to emphasise this rebuke, tbe Berliner Post was instructed to admonish Italy that "if she thinks that to be a satellite of France and England will pay ber better than the aid policy of the Triple Alliance, very well, she will see what sbe will see." Such a telegram as the foregoing would be resented as a covert insult by any high-minded Minister for Foreign Affairs in either France or Great Britain, for what is tbe literal interpretation of it? It is this: I have bestowed a very important decoration upon your delegate at tbe Algeciras Conference for backing up Germany, and if you, as tbe head of the Foreign Office in Vienna, will prove yourself to be equally subservient to the interests of your powerful neighbour, you may rely upon being similarly honoured aud rewarded by myself.

A writer in a London periodical, discussing f he stocking of ponds and lake with fish—a matter in England is far behind Germany, for example, where tbe most stagnant pond is made, commercially at least, as valuable as an equal area of land—says : "Experience, which has now been sufficiently tested to make it worthy of trust, shows that there is hardly any water in which rainbow trout will not thrive, 'f given plenty of food, provided that they oannot escape from it. Bat this is an important proviso, and it is almost an imperative one. Jt is important; because ita effect is virtually to preclude tbe successful introduction of the 'rainbow' into any waters from which there is an outlet that is not carefully screened with a grating. If the 'rainbows' can get away, they will. They show more of a tendency to go down with the stream than up against it; but if they cannot get down they will go up, probably in an instinctive search for h connecting stream which will enable them to go down more They are very voraoious fish, and/ it is probable that the search for food is tbe motheir wandering. It is likely, too, that' the temperature of the water affeois them a good deal. Their native waters, on the. North American Continent, are large, well supplied with food, and deep. The only possible exceptions to the rule that 'rainbows' in this country will escape if the chance be given them, from tbe waters into whioh they are introduced, are the cases in wnich those waters are very rich in thpir food supply, and give them, some considerable depths into which they oan retire when the sub has heated tbe surface. But a general rule, as it seems, may be laid down that whereas 'rainbow' are tbe very best kind of trout that can be put into a water from which they have no way of esoape, it is quite useless to put them into waters from which they can find an exit."