854 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



The Marquis ofNormanhy to the Earl of Carnarvon. 



Wellington, February 1, 1878. 



My Lord : I bave tlie honor to inclose a memorandum wliicli I have 

 received from my government, by which yon will see that they are 

 anxious to convey the thanks of this colony to the Government of the 

 United States for the very handsome and effective manner in which sal- 

 mon ova has been shipped to this colony by the Fishery Commission 

 of the United States, under the direction of the chief Commissioner, the 

 honorable Spencer F. Baird. 



I venture also to express a hope on my own part that your lordship 

 will see no objection to adopt the course proposed by my government, 

 as I think that the action of the American Government has evinced such 

 a feeling of friendship and generosity towards New Zealand in a mat- 

 ter in which deep interest is taken as to demand a special mark of 

 acknowledgment and thanks on the part of this colony. 



I have, &c., 



NORMAKBY. 



G. 8. Whitmore to the Governor of New Zealand. 



MEMORANDUIVI FOR HIS EXCELLENCY. 



Ministers desire respectfully to inform his excellency the governor 

 that the half million salmon ova which arrived by the mail steamer 

 from San Francisco in November last have been successfully hatched 

 and distributed to the various rivers in the colony, and that, by infor- 

 mation which has reached the government from various directions, it has 

 been demonstrated that owing to the extreme care with which the ova 

 was packed in America the very satisfactory result of about 95 per cent. 

 of live fish has been obtained. 



In addition to the half million sent at the request of the government 

 an equal quantity has been sent to the various acclimatization societies 

 in the colony, and this handsome gift of salmon ova has been made to the 

 colony without charge, except cost"\)f packing and transit, by the Fish 

 Commission of the United States, under the direction of the Hon. 

 Spencer F. Baird, as chief commissioner. 



Ministers venture to think that so generous an action on the part of a 

 foreign nation is worthy of being acknowledged in a special manner ; 

 they would therefore respectfully ask his excellency to bring the matter 

 under the notice of Her Majesty's Government, through the secretary of 

 state for the colonies, in the hope that Her Majesty's Government will 

 permit a communication to be made to the Government of the United 

 States of the thanks of the colonj^ of New Zealand for the generous and 

 valuable gift of a milhon salmon ova to the colony. 



C. S. WHITMOEE. 



Wellington, February 1, 1878. 



