(To Ihe Editor of the Otago Daily Tlmks.)

S U. _ J ai your leader of yesterday morning, you state that the columns of the paper are open to suggestions upon the subject of the introduction of salmon. 1 observe that you publish certain recom mendations by Mr Youl, lately received from Homo, " for a .site for the proposed Salmon Ponds in Otago, and the treat ment of the ova after arrival." If ihe Provincial Government have not yet chosen a site for the ponds, 1 would draw their attention to the Pomahaka, a tri butary of the Clutha, as possessing all the requirements named by Mr Ybul. The ova, xipon arrival at Port Chalmers, could bo conveyed by aleamer to the mouth, of this stream; and were tho ponds constructed within a few miles of its mouth, could be taken thence in. a

boat; so that the" great risk consequent upon the shaking' of the ova from frequent handling would be obviated.* Should the weather, however, prove fine at the time of arrival, the ova could be sent round to tire Molyneux in a sailing or rowing boat. This mode of convey ance ha 3 been recommended in prefer ence to using a steamer, on account of the vibration caused by the engines. As the distance is so great between Port Phillip and Hobart Town, a steamer was em ployed to convey the ova between those places, both upon the occasion of the arrival at the former port of the Norfolk, in 18(54, and the 'Lincolnshire, in.IBCG. The Salmon Commissioners of Tasmania attribute a considerable per ccntago of loss to the vibration on board the steamer. There are other streams near the Poina haka, such an the Waiwera and the Kaihiku, both of which would answer very well, but the first-named river is the larger, and (should the experiments prove successful, I think there would be less chance of the fish being disturbed. 1 am sorry to -observe that the Home Agents have thought it advisable to send out the person who is to conduct the-ex periment in this country in the vessel which takes the ova. He can be of little ; use on board, an the ova will be sealed up i in an ice-house, and ought not to be dis turbed until they arc landed here. 