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rected with so uuich success by your earnest and unwearied efforts, are 

 conferring- so great a blessing upon people who are strangers to them. 

 In the coming times it will be a grateful thing for us to remember, and 

 a proud memory for you to know, that to the United States this colony 

 will owe the "King of fish." 



J. C. FIETH, 

 President of the Acclimatization Society, Aucldandj N. Z. 

 Hon. Spencer F. Baird, Esq., 



Chief of the United States Fisheries Commission^ Washington. 



San Francisco, Cal., January 3, 1877. 



Sir : I have to state, in reply to your letter of 16th November, 1876, 

 that I put myself into communication with Professor Baird and Mr. Stone, 

 as therein directed. I have not heard from the latter. I inclose cor- 

 respondence. 



During my absence in Southern California two boxes of whitefish 

 eggs arrived, as advised by Dr. Baird, and were placed in the ice-house 

 here, waiting the departure of the mail. Preparations were made for 

 their reception on board the steamer, and yesterday 1 saw the box for 

 New Zealand packed in ice in a loose case, and drove with it to the ves- 

 sel, where it was transferred to the icehouse in my presence. It will be 

 similarly packed for transfer at Kandavau. Next steamer the second 

 instalment of 125,000 whitefish eggs will be forwarded. I trust these 

 will arrive safely. As I have not been furnished with any account for 

 salmon shipment, I cannot draw upon the government for any amount. 

 I am greatly indebted to Hugh Craig, esq., agent for the New Zealand 

 Insurance Company, who, in my absence from town, gave the necessary 

 instructions. 



I have, &c., 



EOBT. J. CREIGHTON. 



G. S. Cooper, Esq., Under Secretary, Wellington. 



[laclosure in last letter.] 



San Francisco, December 14, 1876. 

 Sir: I have the honor, by direction of the New Zealand Government, 

 to request that you would be good enough to inform me the amount that 

 is due from said government to the United States Fishery Commission, 

 or to the branch of it which you represent, in respect of the government 

 share of the recent shipment of salmon ova to Dr. Hector's address, for 

 which I am authorized to draw on the colonial treasurer of New Zealand. 

 As I am going out of town for a few days, should your letter not receive 

 prompt attention you will understand the cause of the delay. 

 I have, &c., 



E. J. CREIGHTON, 



Resident Agent, New Zealand. 

 Livingston Stone, Esq., 



United States Fish Commission, Redding, Cal. 



