The animals are reported to be in splendid condition.
This must be considered satisfactory, seeing that they were transplanted from a climate 10deg below zero in winter and passed through the tropics.
From the Bluff (says our correspondent) they will be shipped per Hinemoa to Dusky Sound, where they will be liberated at Supper Cove.
This is at the end of the track leading through to the south arm at Lake Manapouri, so that the moose will have a capital opportunity of spreading along the country, heading the eastern branch of the fiords system and inland amongst the cold lakes.
• Wellington is evidently (says our correspondent) paying the penalty for the long dry summer and the almost total absence of those searching winds for which the port is noted.
A number of cases of typhoid fever have been reported during the last week.
The figures are not alarming, but indicate a condition of things which is not strictly normal.
There are half a dozen cases in the hospital at the present time, but a great many more typhoid patients are being treated privately.
Amongst them are Mr W. Houghton, inspector of the National Bank, and Mr H.D.Bell, Crown Prosecutor.
The weather in Wellington has been exceptionally warm, and for the first time in the history of the present generation mosquitoes have invaded the city.
Whether the insect pest, that is said to carry infection readily, has anything to do with the presence of typhoid in a city so clean and sanitarily perfect as Wellington cannot be said, but the fact remains that the mild outbreak of fever has broken out simultaneously with the coming of the mosquito during the month of March.
•The Hinemoa has been prevented from working the lighthouse service by stress of weather.
Weather permitting (writes our Bluff correspondent), she will take up Waipapa and Dog Island today.
On Thursday she will leave for the West Coast Sounds, working Centre Island and Puysegur en route.
The Waikare salvage party will proceed by her to Dusky Sound.
Their boats, gearing, etc, have been transferred from the salvage ketch to the steamer.
The ketch will follow on the first favourable wind.
- ODT, 30.3.1910.
