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CHAPTEE VII. 



THE SECOND IMPOKTATION OF CALIFOKNIAN 

 SALMON OVA. 



This was very disheartening, but I still 

 determined to persevere, and contemplated 

 going myself to California, to superintend the 

 packing and transit, so as to insure a more 

 successful result with another shipment ; but, 

 seeing in the papers that the New Zealand 

 Government intended to import a large 

 quantity of the Californian salmon ova, I 

 applied to Mr. Firth, the President of the 

 Auckland Acclimatization Society, to order 

 for me 50,000 ova for Australia, to come at 

 the same time as those for New Zealand. He 

 very courteously agreed to do so ; and in due 

 time the shipment arrived by the Californian 

 mail steamer, and was forwarded by Mr. 

 Firth, with every care, to Sydney. Prom 



