834 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



As you may perhaps feel a little interest in knowing what sort of a 

 country it is that you are so much benefiting, I inclose you a copy of the 

 account of my last " salmon excursion." 

 I am, dear sir, yours sincerely, 



J. C. FIETH, 

 President of the AucMand Acclimatization Society. 

 Hon. Spencer F. Baird, 



Chief Commissioner of United States Fisheries. 



Same to the same. 



Auckland, New Zealand, Octoher 24, 1877. 



Dear Sir : I am duly in receipt of your favor of August 6, and thank 

 you for your kind accession to my requests on behalf of the Victoria 

 and Canterbury societies so far as circumstances will permit. 



I am pleased to have to report that in one of the rivers, the Eai)urapu, 

 in the shingle-beds of which I last year placed a large number of the 

 salmon ova you so kindly sent, a great success has been achieved ; large 

 numbers of young salmon 5 inches in length being reported as swarm- 

 ing in the river for miles. 



I am, dear sir, your obedient servant, 



J. C. FIETH. 

 Hon. Spencer F. Baird, 



Commissioner United States Fish Commission^ Washington. 



Robert Houghton to S. F. Baird. 



San Francisco, Novemher 1, 1877. 

 Hon. Professor Baird, Washington : 



Dear Sir : I have to thank you for the shipment of 500,000 salmon 

 eggs to New Zealand, per Cross & Co., San Francisco, on the 10th 

 ultimo. Fortunately the shipment was successful, Mr. Hooper, of Cross 

 & Co., having attended to the matter personally, as, owing to misdirec- 

 tion, Mr. Stone's letter to me did not reach me until yesterday, when, 

 ha\iug been told about it, I applied x^ersonally at the post-o£6ce. No 

 doubt the delay was occasioned by Cross & Co.'s business troubles — 

 that firm having more pressing matters to attend to. 



On the 24th ultimo, Mr. Pratt, secretary to Mr. Stone, called upon me 

 and informed me of the shipment ; he also gave me memorandum of 

 account and receipt of payment for $750, being $1.50 per 1,000, as no- 

 tified by you in previous correspondence.* At Mr. Pratt's suggestion, 



* Thia amount represented the supposed extra expense to tlie United States of ob- 

 taining, developing, amd packing the eggs for shiiJiueut, the condition of the dona- 

 tion.— S. F. Baikd, 



