Morris tribune., 1906-04-14
there will be an expenditure of 500
crowns more than last year.
NORWAY.


Says Norwegian correspondent:
although continued stormy weather
has been a great hindrance to the
progress of the fisheries in most places
along the coast, the results up to date
are very satisfactory, and the catch
has been very good almost very day
when the weather has permitted the
fishermen to be out. To the 10th Of
this month, the total catch for the
whole country was 100000 cod.
which is 100000 more than up to the
same date last year. Apparently,
therefore, this years result will be at
least about that of an average year,
and if weather and catch during the
coming weeks continued favorable the
final result may be even better than
that. At the beginning of March this
year the catch is as much as the ag-
gregate catch of the three previous
seasons, but then the last three sea-
sons have been the worst ever known
What has been great item this sea-
son is the heavy loss of implements
sustained by the fishermen owing to
the stormy weather. The prices are
ruling high, especially in the Trondh-
jem districts, where the notations have
been 80 to 4S kroner per 100 fish, IN
Nordland the price has been % to 35
kroner. and somewhat lower than that
in Lofontein. The price of liver is II
to Is kroner per bbl in Lofoten, in
other places Is to IA kroner. The catch
in the LOfoten district alone up to date
is about 4,75O,OO0 against 100000 to
the corresponding date last year. While
this is a result for the district far bet
ter than that of late years, it does not
by far come up to the catches made
some twenty years ago, when the
average catch at this time Of the year
was some 100000 to 100000 of cod.
The fishery fleet in Lofoten this year
year is a large one. Some 5000 boats
are reported stationed there. The /
total for the herring fisheries up to ,,
date amounts to about 100000 'maar |
(bbls)"
During the last three or four years
Norway has imported considerable |
amount of potatoes. This year, judg-
ing from various reports, the thing has !
been reversed and Norwegian potatoes |
are exported from the country every !
week, mostly to Belgium and Holland. |
The peculiar part of it seems to be |
that potatoes were cheaper in Norway |
in former years when they were inn
ported from abroad. than this year,
when there is more of the vegetable
variety than the country really needs |
Benjamin VOgt. the newly appointed
Norwegian minister to Norway, does +
not fall into favor with the Dagbladet
He has always, according to that pa !
per, been too easy" with Sweden and
it urges that the present charge daft
fairies Mr., Bryn. would be far more
preferable
Major AdplskjOld, of Stockholm. has
900 crowns to the widows
and children of the sailors who lost
their lives during the recent storms
On the west coast. Similar subScrip-
lions have been literally offered in
.'hrstiania and other Norwegian
cities.
To Tromsoe has come word to the
effect that Walter Wellman, the Amer
can north polar explorer, will arrive {.
here June 10 and make his departure
June Is. If the weather.
conditions are favorab Mr.. Wellman
will then begin his hazardous journey.
The railway committee of the storth-
ng purposes an expenditure Of 129,227
crowns for the completion Of the
Observation-Disclosures and the Dram
nen- Aandsfjord railways during the
coming summer and fall.
Olav Eide will succeed DR. Risjo as
In chief of "Nordmor." The
ormer is an experienced newspaper
nan and has been in the newspaper
business during the past twenty years,
DENMARK