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Evening Post, Issue 213, 13 October 1865, Page 2

Roads at thf Grey.— According to the West Coast correspondent of the Lyttelton Times, Mr. Blackett is doing good service, at the Grey by opening out the country by tracks for diggers. He says :-*•" Another cause of complaint is the state of the track between Greymouth and the Arnold diggings The Government of Canterbury have done literally nothing to render the communication easier, although the importance of the field is daily incteasing. Comparisons are frequently drawn between the Nelson Government and our own— very much, I am sorry to say,, tot > the disadvantage of the latter. In Nelson no '; sooner are new workings opened, 1 than the authorities set themselves the ta>k oliplaking a good track to the spot, and, by this means* not only is the price of provisions kept down but an inducement is held out to awn to go up and try the ground, a place wun a good track to it being naturally preferred to a nlace which can only be reached after many (weary hours, or perhaps days, of tramping through mud up to the knee. In Canterbury' nothing of the kind is ever thought of, and - the day will surely come when this neglect will be a cause of bitter and lasting regret." The Courrier de Bretagne, a paper published at Lorient, gives an interesting account of an experiment made at Belle Isle " to fish at night by means of electric light. The light was produced by a powerful electro-magnetic machine constructed by . M. Bazin, the well-known engineer. The - experiment, which was conducted by M. • Bazin on board the Andalouse, in the. presence of 1500 persons assembled on the pier, was completely successful,' and the quantity of fish taken very large. A per- 1 son who was present states that nothing can be more exciting than fishing at sea by night with the aid of this light. AsEoon as the submarine lantern was mv

merged shoals Of fish of every description came to the illuminated circle, while the fishermen outside it spread their nets ff om their boats. The light illuminating the deep sea, the fish arriving in shoals, attracted by the fictitious sun, the boats aca c the edge of the lighted circle, the deep silence, interrupted only by the grating of the electrormagnetic machine, is described as an imposing sight. M. Bazin is shortly to proceed to Bona, in Algeria, to establish a coral fishery by the assistance of his electric light. He purposes, in the meantime, to descend full 400 feet into the sea, and explore what he calls the "debths of the ocean," with his submarine instruments. The Minister of Marine has given orders for a ship of war to be placed at his disposal, and Admiral Ohoppart has appointed a commission, composed of engineers and naval officers, to attend M. Basin's experiments officially. Construction qv the Sandhurst Railway—The Melbourne papers inform that an action to recover no less a sum than £350,000 has been instituted on behalf of Messrs. Cornish and Bruce, the contractors, of the Sandhurst railway, agaltlst the Government of Victoria, and will be tried shortly before the three Judges and a special jury. Messrs Ireland and Wood have been retained for the plaintiffs, and have received as retainers £650 and £450 respectively. In order that they might fully understand tbe fea- j tures of the work which will be brought before the jury, they arranged for a travelling consultation on the line between Melbourne and Sandhurst.