The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-08-04 00:00:00

THE CALIFORNIAN FISHERIES.

The Fishery Commissioners for the State of Cali-
fornia report the steady increase in the stocking of the
Sacramento river with salmon, 4,000,C00 having been
successfully hatched and distributed in the waters of
the State during the last season. They believe that
the Sacramento will become a 6sh farm to an almost
unlimited extent, and have now placed in that river
and its tributaries double the number of last season.
The salmon canning trade has, on the whole, in-
creased at a corresponding rate, the output for 1875
having been 5,098,7811 b., while in 1880 it was
10,837,4001 b. Last year it was not quite so much,
being only 9,605,2801 b., but again 6,713,4081 b. Were
taken for home consumption. The striped bass,
which on the Atlantic coast of the States reaches
the weight of 701 b. or 1001 b., has been successfully
transported from the Shr.ewsbury river, on the New
Jersey coast, to Oaltforma, 300 of them having been
deposited in. Suisun Bay. Shad from the east have
been placed m the Sacramento river to the number of
220,000, while 500,000 white fish have been hatched
and distributed in the northern rivers of the State.

The returns from San Francisco show that between
September, 1880, and Augu,t, 1882, the supplies of
fish were :—Fresh salmon, 501,691, ettimated at about
131 b. each; 12,273 fresh sturgeon, estimated at 501 b.
each ; and of smoked salnoon, 1,546 bablrf-ts, contain-
ing 1301 b. each; 4:1 barrel, weighing 2001 b. each;
and 618 sacks, holding 75,11. each.

No IZETmuc.—She,—No, Mr. ('advery, I can never
never, marry y, U. He.—What! not after I've gone
to the expense Of bringing you by this excursion? 'Ang
it! you're a nice sort o' girl. But I will be even with
Y". PGY tour own fare back /—[ rears return half, and
exitd—letinny Folks.
THE CZAR OF RUSSIA.—On Saturday the Emperor
Of Russia and other members of the Imperial family
on His Majesty's yacht witnessed an attack by a land-
ing party of four battalions and half a squadron of
Cossacks, with four gun.. upon three battalions, one
squadron, and some bght guns defending the Baltic
coast of the Finnish Gulf at Snepeleti Bay, near
Krasnoe Gorks. The half squadron of Cossacks was
landed directly from a monitor, and had to swim a
bhort distance to shore. The landing party, which
was assisted by the tire from five ships of war, was
adjueged srinceseful in routing the defendus.
"OIL ON TROUBLED WATlClL"—Another proem
for throwing oil on troubled waters was tested at
Peterhead on Saturday. The conditions were suitable
for the trial, there being a considerable wind and a
choppy sea on the bar. The invention consists of a
metal vessel tapering towards each end and containing
numerous perforations for the escape of the oil. It
ian be towed behind a ship er boat. The experiment
was regarded as satisfaetory.

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ARRIVAL OF AN INDIAN MAIL.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's Royal mail
steamship Baaaarat, Captain Tomlin, with the home-
ward Indian mails, arrived at Ply mouth early on
Sunday morning. The vessel made a fine run from
Port Said to Gibraltar,and it was expected that,having
important mails on board, she would have arrived
within si days from Gibraltar, her time being up at
nine p.m. on Saturday. On inquiry on board it was
found that the Ballaarat left Bombay July 4 ; Men,
July 12; Suez, July 17; Port Said, July 18. In conse-
quence of the difficulty encountered at the present
moment in getting tee mails through the Continent, the
mails were not landed as usual at Suez for transmission
to England by overland route, but were in compliance
with instructions from the Postmaster-dreneral brought
right on to England in the Ballaarat, which came
direct to Plymouth from Port Said, and did not, as is
usually the case, stop at Malta or Gibraltar. There
were 83 tarred sacks of mails on board, one sack con-
taining five bags, one for the Secretary of the Ad. •
miralty, two from Suez cc,ntaining soldiers and
sailors' letters from Her Majesty's ship /ria at Suez,
and one from Port Said. The remaining bags were
Indian mails. It might be added that the mails were
received on board in the ordinary sacks and were then
placed in tarred bags, 100 having been put on board
at Bombay specially for the purpose. No signs of
cholera had been seen on board the ship. The bills
of health were clean, with the exception of the fact
that at Port Said there had been cholera among the
Arab population, but there was none prevalent at the
time the vessel left. The ship was not placed in
quarantine at either Suez or Port Said, and those on
board the Ballaarat, with the exception of the
Lascars, were allowed to go on shore, but did not go
near the native population. Some passengers were
embarked at Suez and these were subjected to a semi.
medical examination. Sir Evelyn Wood and his aide.
de-camp embarked at Suez, having came from Cairo
by rail for passage to England. When the Ballaarat
was half-way through the Canal and had passed
Ismailia Sir E. Wood received a message to the effect
that cholera was on the increase in Egypt, and Sir
Evelyn s‘nd his aide-cle.camp at once disembarked and
returned to Egypt in order to see that all neoessary
precautions were taken for the safety of the British
troops.