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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2569, 11 April 1887, Page 2

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.-i'Vii' iW ' : 'i 'iThe Loi)lloii.,ci;i of the Lyttdtoii Ti'iU'S iKi'tiW-. thr "following o.»ii reoently sent.fco .Sew;Z«*rt-li'nn},*""a' grant portion of which ,'fcmud ils',y,-ay» ii) tho: Mattelfdn;hatchery ■Hjowieton out-! bx Dpi 10 ■ vt': tk v special fwro - taken tbem, (hat 'they will; "arrive atend of vQjago in iw good ne state as they ■were seiit out. 7 llie consignmentamounted to ,830,000 eggn, which ia; the largest sliipnient that haß ever been " sent to any of tho Australasian Colo* nies before. In tlie shipments sent laut year by tho loiuc and tho innnlfttingcuea which was eaferjuTl ; waß. rfcther large for handling. Con' l Vequently, .in tho Doric, four smaller 1 cases, tfaob kolding four of the Howie* ; town bojgs bar# b?on baed, and. it i 3 thought with advantage.; The "shipments by the KaityHjra and theDorioal together amounted to ,00,080 Boms SOjOOO )$m By the Toagatirir this timers are. being sent! but 100,000 Rlilhs' pva: from tie Bavaria fishery .{ib ©.■ tewhab ; of; : taken , from the 'Horili Mtiih. : fislleri^'' I THei , 6 amlso going 0at'25,000 brook tout ova from - th& Biya,ri«ilislierf j 25,000 Alpin# .Ohir ova j and 25,000 Carpoino trout '(jv'a, the ratesib of tho talnwfartywbm habitat ia only iii : the ,Lago di Garda. The introduction of the lake trout into New Zealand will not only be a great., curiosity but a great bcon to epicc,The particular epociee in questiv' .* called Trutta Garpione, and enjoys a , high reputation among jakp trouMw exquisite deliacy and flavour, Ifl|f, the additional". recommendation of being a large...fish that affords .good.

riporl;... Thafe are also 130,000 ova of tlie Looh -Leven . trout, which,, under the advantages to be found in the' New ZniiUnd lakes, will, proii#bly. develop into tho liiii'Kt ih the world.;

.Soinc expfii'iuientH'ha.v(), I bfien brought to a conolnfiioii'nt' Hof'icton, which may have an important value to

Zealand..' hia, BcieutiSc expert, Dr-.i&y, bavt been expHriuieiitinj for. the past &v# ye»rg upon' tho possibility -of '.brseding >i land locked salniou. They ore now sur# of succes3 t and foel confident that .the idma nlarvm be introduced into the lake# of few Zeaiksq.' It ig not cbneidered possible to naturalise this vauefy inanypartof iAristralia. oo]#e« li fe the qold ldkeß ih .vcortaiu Sparta of Grippjlaiid'; ba tit is thought it wiD thrive ia.' infliction -in watets like Lake Wakatipu,' where it will "enjoy the pur's'fliibr Water whicii.ptsoilj" eary/or its os^tenoe, ■ A .book, wilja b?.tif special ! intfitsfc: to. Krw Zeslari.ere ia the "History of;'How,ietoii ; ;" by Sir J» Samsfty Gibson, MaitUnd, Bart. Tho vjlnme; K-'Mipa ■ 3Q0.-.-psgtiafri extent, and iB furniehsil with nearly 200 wood* oiiti md other illuß*trktion». It gives a fiill. description olHowieton fisherios,' batching, hoaefta. and ponds] of the expfiritiientß .which h'avo been, carried on there froipup, to the present timMnd the.fis]i ciiltaral work and -the , .The itutbor iHowieton fiihery hsa ' yean of continuqas wstructivi work, and he.

deems it adviEabla ,to publish as account'ot'the way in-which the work lias bwn'eifried and of the result :obt«ln?d» -■ His object in so doing has bash to prove that, the' culture of th# tatymidad can Iba 1 tiiade a commercial :6Uockb if aet abotifc 'in a b'nsmess»lika manner. .'

: . With regifd to.. the cultivation of the salmon : lii New.; Maud I-aj-y mention that, it i'b -Sir Dillon Bta's opinion that the.acclimatisation of tola fish in Now Zealand,,would bo equivalent to a gift of a • million sterling to tlfe colony." , . ■ |