The following letter has been handed to us for publication :—: — "To John An,n, Esq., W.S., Edinburgh. "Dear Sir — It has been a source of much regret to us that the passengers by the Timaru wore so far short of the guaranteed number — increasing thereby, for the Provincial Govern ment, indirectly the co-t of sending out the salmon ova ; at the same time, it has been no benefit to the ship, but the reverse^ as the space being unoccupied and the provisions put on board for a much laiger number of passengers than actually went, the half passage-money on the number 'short leaves us a less benefit than if the guaranteed number had been .shipped. I And as it happened the anticipating of the date of departure of this ship from the date origin ally fixod for her sailing, in order to despatch the ova at the earliest possible moment after it was seemed, deprived v* of a much larger quantity of caruo than we had calculated upon losing ;'so that it would have been much more to the benefit of the ship had you seen your way to accept of an offer to take the ova to Port Channels direct, freiirht free. However, as the matter i- a public one, and as the rela tions between the Albion Shipping Company and the Piovincial Government of Otayo have always been of an agiee.ible and friendly char acter, our Mr Galbraith suggested to his co directors that some aid being given by that Company towards the expense of the_ endea vour now made to propagate salmon in New Zealand would be appieciated by his Honour the Superintendent and the Provincial Council of Otago, we are instructed to intimate to you that the Director.-, of the Albion Shipping Company havu voted the sum of A'3oo for this purpose. — We are, &c, "P. Hexdkksox anw Co. " 15, St Vincent Place, "Glasgow, 20th January, 1875."

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