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numbers, 6000 in all. Since this I have removed 

 daily the dead ones, numbering 6220, or say 

 12000 in all. There are, perhaps, about 1000 still 

 remaining, and most of these should produce fish, 

 and I think I shall not overlay it if I say I have 

 10,000 hatched ; this, if true, I believe represents 

 the largest hatching yet produced at the Antipodes. 

 I do not know what the Norfolk shipment produced, 

 but I think 4000 ; the Lincolnshire I know was 

 said to give 6000 hatched ; at least, I had a memo, 

 from the Australasian to that effect, and from about 

 a like quantity — 87,000. I am sorry to say Mr. 

 Buckland's lot, though some of them looked so weU 

 impregnated, have not hatched off well ; so many 

 died just before hatching, and many of them burst. 

 I shall not get more than half of what I anticipated ; 

 most of those which he placed in mid-ice, and taken 

 from the Lancashire rivers proved unimpregnated, 

 and from those six boxes I shall not get 50 fish. It 

 is a great pity those you placed at the bottom of 

 the ship were killed, as most of those not opaque 

 have hatched fish, and it is very strange (but 

 quite carries out my belief) that those boxes which 

 were on top of ice all huddled together have 

 done as well as any, the large boxes had scarcely a 

 dead Ova in them. Unfortunately I sent one of 

 them to Christchurch by the Superintendent's order 

 and one of the lowest tier of j'our packing, in all, I 



