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ova have passed this point, the check they 

 will receive in the ice will seriously imperil 

 them. But no care and forethought have 

 been omitted ; the ship is a fine one of 1100 

 tons register, and looks as if she would beat 

 a steamer, with wind enough to drive her. 

 About the 20th instant these unconscious 

 ova will start on their long journey, to wake, 

 we hope, into conscious life in the southern 

 hemisphere, and people all the shores of 

 the Southern Ocean with salmon. 



" We have referred in occasional notes to 

 the success of the importation of salmon- 

 trout and brown trout into Tasmanian 

 rivers, and, though no Salmo solar of indis- 

 putable identity has yet been sent home 

 thence, the evidence from eye-witnesses 

 that the Derwent is fuU of large salmon is 

 very strong. Other members of the Sal- 

 monidge, whose struggling bodies have been 

 brought to basket by the angler in the 

 river Plenty, have evidently had fine times 

 of it. A trout weighing 9^ lbs. has been 

 taken, which could not be more than four 

 years old. The conditions of life, then, are 



