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1600, sent by Mr. Charles C. Capel in 

 1878, were reported to have arrived at 

 Wallace Town, New Zealand, in excellent 

 condition, their ultimate fate is unknown, 

 even to Mr. Capel himself. The whole cost 

 of the Norfolk shipment was about £700, 

 and the colonists cannot consider that a 

 high price for the result — two thousand 

 salmon and an unlimited stock of trout, to 

 which must be added the breeding ponds in 

 Tasmania. Each of the colonial legisla- 

 tures has done Mr. Youl the justice at least 

 to record its sense of the value of his 

 services, and confidence being now estab- 

 lished in his method, he was naturally- 

 looked to as the only man competent to 

 undertake any future shipments that might 

 be thought necessary. 



It would have been unwise to trust en- 

 tirely to the two thousand salmon smolts 

 already spread over the wide estuary and 

 bays of the Derwent for stocking that or 

 other rivers of the island. So small a 

 number might be fatally reduced by enemies 

 at sea, and possibly not a single pair might 



