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Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume V, Issue 214, 21 March 1885, Page 2

The Rev- Father Holland, will -conduct Mrs* and Topers at St. Joseph's here, at the usual hours, on Sunday week, 'iUih instant. The return of amalgam from the Keep-it-Dark battery last week, was iisßozs. The Sunday hockey Turf Club <uinouwce a consultation of i-5000 on the Adelaide Cup, which is t© be run for, at Flemington, on the 7th of next moath. Prof. slack, of tbeDunedin University, who is at present lecturing on various subjects of great interest to mitring communities cm the West Coast, visited Lyell in the beginning of the week, and had very good audiences on Loth Tuesday and Wednesday last. The Rro esser's .elas*©s for instruction in the many scientific mineral, a&dtore tests, were also well attended, and we regret not being able., i» this issue, to more than notice kis visit.,, but which will, we trust, lead to some very beneficial results. It has often been remarked, that -the appointment ©f a local committee, or the establishment of some ether meanas of regulating and supervising control of the •Cemetery, was a thing which required adjustment. At present, we understand, the County Council possess all authority pertaining to the enclosure; but this it would appear, extends no further than maintaining the fencing, and keeping down ithe under-growth, for which, the locality where it is situated, is remarkable. This is all very geod, but there is something more than tkisaiceded, and so as to ensure a degree of order, and regularity, in the matter of interment, and appropriating the ground as these melancholy necessities will occur, it should be laid-oft in sections, aud some reliable person appointed as •sexton and care-taker. Of course, when there are no regulations in force to preserve evenness er neatness in the way indicated, parties will suit themselves for the time being only, and in time to come, it is not difficult to foresee, this will load to great confusion, besides perhaps, serving to present features which could only betoken want of foresight.

Elsewhere, it is notified that tenders, — closing at Westport on the 4th prox., are called for contract work on some of the bridges on the Bullor road. Anything to make this road more travel lable than it has been for a length of time past, will, we feel sure, be very welcomely received by everyone using it: a road may, now and then, drift into a state of disrepair, but when bridges and culverts commence to go crooked, it is time to look-out. Whilst a little in the dark, as to. the exact locality where these improvements are to bs made, the intelligence that a step of the kind is to. he taften, will give great satisfaction. We might, however, be excused for the remark, that the importance attached to public tendering, and especially in works of this kind, in a local sense, mike it expedient that the specifications should bu put within reach of thosa residing in lively places, anyhow. It the j specification was on view hare, it woald ! certainly be a great convenience, and,'; would not, we imagine, put the Depart- ! ment to any great outlay. Among some late items of Continental news, there is one which suggests an old i4ea, one very often expressed, and just as deeply Celt by a vast majority oi those who travel by water, and, whose experiences •of what has been called, "sea sorrow," are of a kind which need no detail. One of the passaiiger lines of big steamers, has made an alteration from the old system of treating good and bad sailors alike, by issuing tickets merely charging for ordinary accommodation and conveyance from port to port. By this means, a great unfairness is removed from a large section of sea-goers, who certainly hare to undergo penalties and suffering enough throughout the wearying durance whieli a trip imposes upon them, without baying to pay equally with those who are hale and hearty, and, ef course, enjoying all the style and the variety ©f delicacies and good thing.-; which may be going. .Sea sickness bailies all attempts at remedies. To impose the same demand* on those who happen to have a natural iiafirmity that way, a* on the otuers who make the •toward* and the waiter* fly round wheß they get their " sea legs "en, and generally give gastronomy a pretty forward place in their programme, hat been a long-standing grievance.,, by reason of the inequality it carries with it, and its' removal will be very popularly received. • At the request (cabled), of -.the Hon..; Thos. G. Hewitt, President ef tfoe Exhibition to be held at Grafton, N.S.W., commencing ali>out the end of this month,. Mr H. P. Hubbard, Proprietor of the International Newspaper Agency, New Havtn, Conn., U.S.A., has forwarded for 1 display en that occasion, sample copies of' over seven hundred leading newspapers, published in the various cities ef the United States, Mexico, South America, the West Indies, British India, South Africa, Europe, &c. Probably such a collection of periodicals in various languages has never been seen before in Australia; and possibly at no previous exhibition in the world. Mr Hubbard re- j gretted that the short time allowed him, for making this collection, (only one day after receipt of Mr Hewitt's cablegram), did not admit of the selection and arrangement of a very much larger representation of the Press of the World. The contribution sent, however, cannot fail to prove of great interest to all intelligent visitors to the Exhibition, and especially ten -wspaper anen and lovers ef unique literature. Mr Yanderbilt, orl, coming into possession of General Grant's property as security for his loan of 150,000 dollars to the General, offered to present the whole of it to Mrs Grant, who, however, declined the gilt. ONE IBOX OF CLAKKE'S B 41 PILLS is warranted to cure all discharges from the Urinary Organs, in either sex (acquired or constitutional), Gravel, and Pains in I the Back. Guaranteed free from Mercury. Sold in Boxes, 4s Gd each, by all Chemists and Patent Medicine Vendors; Sole Proprietors, The Lincoln and Midland Counties Drug Co., Lincoln, England. Wholesale of all the Wholesale Houses.