860 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



I should feel thankful if the government could girve such directions to 

 the railway authorities at luvercargill as would prevent any unnecessary 

 delay in its transit from Bluff to the Makarewa station. 

 I have, &c., 



The Under Secretary, Wellington. 



HENRY HOWARD. 



No. 12. 



Tlie Under Secretary to Mr. Henry Howard. 



Sir : With reference to your letter of the 20th instant, relative to 

 preparations being made for the reception of salmon ova at the Maka- 

 rewa ponds, I am directed to inform you that the railway authorities 

 have been instructed to give you every facility in the transit of the ova 

 from the bluft" to its destination. 



You had better place yourself in communication with the station- 

 master at the bluff on the subject. 



I have, &c., G. S. COOPER. 



No. 13. 



The Hon. Matliew Holmes^ 31. L. C, to the Hon. the Colonial Secretary. 



Wellington, November 2, 1877. 

 Sir : On behalf of the Oamaru Acclimatization Society I beg to thank 

 you for the manner in which you were i3rej)ared to meet their applica- 

 tion for salmon ova for that district, and am sorry to find that all the 

 shipment now on its way from San Francisco was promised before my 

 application was made. 



As further shipments are to follow, I now beg to apply for two cases 

 salmon and two cases whitefish ova, out of the first shipment to arrive 

 from America, for the Oamaru Acclimatization Society. 



I may state that suitable provision has been made to receive and hatch 

 the ova, and that Mr. Y'oung (one of the most successful in this line) 

 has undertaken to conduct the experiment. 

 I have, &c., 



MATHEW HOLMES. 

 The Hon. the Colonial Secretary. 



No. 14. 



Mr. J. C. Firth to the Under Secretary. 

 [Telegram.] 



Auckland, November 6, 1877. 

 I have shipped per Rotorua, sailing this evening, one case of fifty 

 thousand salmon ova to Williams, Naj)ier, with one chest of ice in re- 



