The annual general meeting of the above Society was held yesterday after noon in the County Council Chambers. Mr H. Aitken occupied the chair, and there were also present : Dr de tiautour, and Messrs Watson, Procter, Stock, Sinclair, Glen, and Crawford (hon. secre tary). The minutes of the last annual meeting were read and confirmed. The annu-tl report waa read as follows : The fourteenth annual report from the Council of the Waifcaki branch of the Wai taki and Waimate Counties Acclimatisa tion Society, The Council have again the honor to sub mit their report for the year ending 31st March, 1891. The balance sheet, as you will observe, shows that we have but very little money in hand, having indeed some accounts out standing unpaid, as ia shown by our state ment of assets and liabilities ; but these we i hope to Bquare very shortly from game licenses and other expected revenue. Although we have not a large balance to credit at our bankers, yet the members of the Society and the public must not imagine that this is a sign of retrogression of the So ciety which is making satisfactory progress, as will be seea by a close scrutiny of the ac counts. ' This apparent state of impccuniosity is caused by a very large outlay in completing our races for water suply and fish rearing, the necessary repairs to the hatchery, and the formation of the new large perch and tench pond ; this latter alone costing be tween L7O and LBO. All the property and plant is now in fairly good order, so that with a small out lay for necessary renewals and repairs, our appliances for breeding, hatching, and rear ing should not require much spent on them for a number of years. During the last trout spawning season we arranged for collecting a lot of ova from fish in the creeks of the Waitaki river. Z!he catching and stripping of the fish was successfully carried out under the direction of Mr John Young, to whom the best thanks of the Society are due, and are hereby ten dered, A large proportion of this oVa was hatched out. 