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SUVA. June 1.

MR. JAMES A. EWING, recently retired Governor of Eastern Samoa, who has been big-game fishing out of Suva for some weeks past, successfully landed a 374-lb silver marlin, first of this variety to be taken on sporting tackle, on May 6.

The fish was hooked within sight of Suva and, with others that have been seen but not hooked, is solid evidence that there are big-game fish right at Suva’s front door. The problem seems to be capturing them.

The weather has not been good during most of Mr. Ewing’s fishing, * but this does not seem to account for the fact that big ones are not readily hooked. Mr. Harold Gatty’s now defunct South Seas Marine Products commercial fishing ven ture, using rod-fishing methods, had the same experience. Most probable explanation would seem to be an abundance of food fish, which causes the big game to be “choosey” in what they take.

If the secret of hooking the big fellows could be discovered, the ac cessibility of the fishing grounds to Suva would undoubtedly prove an attraction to overseas fishermen who habitually visit New Zealand, New South Wales and other south

ern big-game waters during the season.

Valuable work in the propagation of new and improved types of sugar canes is being done at Meringa ex perimental station, in Queensland.

Experts gathered the canes in New Guinea, where a wide range of types is indigenous. It is believed that New Guinea is the original home of the sugar-cane.