2 1 8 Salmon at the Antipodes. 



but Messrs. Noonan's engine went also all the 

 way to Sale over the Government line, free of 

 any charge to either myself or the Govern- 

 ment. 



" I arranged with Messrs. Eobertson and 

 Wagner to send an express waggon to carry 

 the fish- cans over the four miles of a gap 

 between the ends of the completed railway 

 lines, and also to convey the salmon from Sale 

 to Bairnsdale. 



"The conveyance of the salmon beyond this 

 place — which is the furthest point to which 

 Cobb's coaches run — I left to be arranged by 

 the Bairnsdale shire council. However, the 

 day before that fixed for starting, I had a 

 telegram from the secretary to the shire, to 

 the effect that it was ' impossible ' to take 

 the salmon by the route I had indicated, and 

 advising me to go by steamer. 



" I decided, however, to endeavour to carry 

 out my original plan ; and accordingly, on 

 January 13th, 1877, at a quarter-past five p.m., 

 I left Ercildoune with about 2700 salmon fry, 

 all of which were intended for distribution in 

 the Gippsland rivers, except a small number 

 left at Meredith in passing, which were suc- 

 cessfully placed in the Moorabool river. 



