EXPORTATION OF FISHES AND HATCHING APPARATUS. 963 



San Francisco, January 25, 1876. 



Dear Sir : By the City of Melbourne I am acquainted that a small 

 lot of ova that went to New Zealand by that boat, some four months 

 since, did not land well. A gentleman in Otago, N. Z., who has been 

 very successful in tish-hatchiug, had the care of a case of ova taken by 

 the City of Melbourne, and he acquainted me that he found every one 

 hatched and dead some days before he received them in Dunedin. Some 

 that went to Auckland reached there safely, but the proportion was 

 small. My informant thinks that the ova must at latest leave here by 

 the middle of September. I am further informed that by next season 

 he hopes to make a trial, and that probably he will be joined by the 

 acclimatization societies of Timaru and Christchurch, N. Z. 



Last month the secretary of the province of New Zealand passed 

 through here on his way to New Zealand, and I gave him a note of the 

 correspondence from you. On reaching New Zealand the matter will 

 be put before Sir Julius Vogel, and I am in hopes that next season may 

 find the matter taken in hand by the New Zealand Government. My 

 correspondent from Dunedin says he understands there is a valuable 

 work published in the States on fish-breeding, but does not know the 

 author. Do you think it would be that of Mr. Baird f 

 I am yours, faithfully, 



J. W. DUNCAN. 



Livingston Stone, Esq., 



McCloud River, Bedding. 



Please address letter to me in future, P. O. Box 204. 



B— SHIPMENTS OF FISH-OVA IN 187G TO NEW ZEALAND. 



Duff & Co., Commission Merchants, 



316 Davis street, Sa7i Francisco, May 19, 1876. 

 Dear Sir : Last year by the kind assistance of my friend Mr. Kaeding, 

 I was fortunate enough to obtain from your establishment 50,000 salmon 

 ova, which I shipped to New Zealand, intending them for the province 

 of Napier. The steamer taking them from here touched only at Auck- 

 land, and as no ice could be procured there, Mr. Ormond, superintendent 

 of the province of Napier, donated one box to the Acclimatization So- 

 ciety at Auckland, and ordered the other forwarded to Napier, expect- 

 ing that by extra care they could be safely kept for three days, the 

 usual time of coasting-steamer between the two ports. Unfortunately, 

 in consequence of bad weather, the small steamer was two weeks on 

 the passage, and the ova became totally lost. In a letter received from 

 Mr. Ormond, per steamer Zealandia, he says, "Will you be kind enough 

 to convey our acknowledgments to the gentlemen who superintended 

 the packing of the ova received? Nothing could be better than the 



