Partnerships Dissolved.
The London Gazette, of Friday, July 5th, announced the dissolution of partnership between Charles Lockey and George Lindridge, music dealers.
The same Gazette of Friday Nov. 22nd, announced the dissolution of partnership, of John Carey, jun. and Levi Avery, carpenters, of St. Leonards. Also on Friday, May 10th the Gazette announced the dissolution of partnership of Henry Hughes and William Hunter, builders of St. Leonards.
The Fishing Industry.
The Fishery.
On Sunday morning Jan. 20th the fishing boat “Palace” landed 1100 mackerel, which realised nearly £40. This was the first catch of the season, the boats that had been away from home for three weeks having been very unfortunate. Another three weeks passed and the fishing luggers that had gone west continued to be singularly unsuccessful. The latest accounts stated that there were seventy or eighty boats from Portsmouth and Plymouth, and that on one occasion the night’s catch consisted of eight fish amongst the whole fleet; and even this was beaten on the night of February 8th, when one only was caught by the whole of the fleet.
On the 8th and 9th of May, the boats engaged in fishing off Hastings had an extraordinary catch of the pretty and delicate little mullet. The numbers brought in by each boat varied from 50 to 150, and were sold at from £5 10s to £6 10s. per hundred. They also brought in some small quanties(sic) of mackerel, for which the prices obtained were from 48s to 56s. per hundred. At this time the Hastings boats in the western waters were being more successful in mackerel catching than previously stated.
On the afternoon of May the 22nd, about 5,500 mackerel were caught in the nets at Bopeep, and were sold for £80. It was a novel sight to see them picked from the staked nets while standing on the sand at low water.
During the last week in June, a specimen of the pugnacious and voracious sea wolf was caught near Hastings, and exhibited at the shop of Mr. Breach, a fishmonger, in Commercial road. The head was of a cat-like formation and possessed most formidable teeth. The body was crossed by vertical bands and varied with spots of a darker colour. It was 3ft 2in long, and 2ft in girth. It is an inhabitant of the norteen(sic) seas, but a stranger to the English Channel.
The comparative failure of last season’s herring voyage and the unproductive mackerel voyage, pressed heavily on the resources of the town’s fishing population; and the fleet of large luggers that had for some time left Hastings for the northern seas had done but little by way of retrievement until the second week in September, when a few of the boats appeared to have made a satisfactory commencement. William Hayward’s boat, had a “sivver” which realized £60.
