The method of catching them formerly in vogue having been found very laborious, Mr Chisholm, president of the Acclimatisation Society, suggested that a drag-net should be employed, and yesterday this course was followed with marked success.
From three hauls in the pool which has recently been converted into a bathing-place several dozen large fish, running from 4lb to 12lb in weight, were obtained.
These, having been stripped, were placed in tanks, and were afterwards taken to Lake Logan and liberated.
There is at present some difficulty in retaining the fish in Lake Logan, as provision must be made for the voluntary entry of fish from the harbour; but Mr Chisholm informs us that Mr Blair Mason (the Harbour Board's engineer) and Mr Forrest (the well-known architect) are now busily devising a contrivance intended to prevent the exit of fish while not forbidding the entry of others from the harbour.
A correspondent has brought under our notice another case of objectionable train-drinking.
It took place on Saturday evening in a train from the south, and our informant judges the offenders to have been either players in or visitors to a country football match.
The conduct of the young men in question was anything but edifying.
They had bottles of beer, of which they partook freely, and one gentleman left a first class carriage and took his stand at the door of the second class carriage containing the young men in order to prevent them coming into the other carriage, of which some lady occupants were apprehensive.
It is this kind of thing that brings discredit on Dunedin, and for which it is not easy to find a remedy, but probably the railway authorities will instruct the guards to do their best to check the too-exuberant spirits of mobs of young men when they are observed with bottles of beer in the carriages.
