The Lyell Times. SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1885.

Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume V, Issue 220, 2 May 1885, Page 2

The Lyell Times. SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1885.

The enrolment of persons eligible for No. 1 class in toe X.Z Militia, Ua- been actively came 1 o i in this disrnc? bv Constable and we aiv ,;,vr:i to understand, that the names of upwards of sixty promising recruits ii.tve bu.en sent in to head-quarters. Mr A. Corfield, Clerk to the Bench here*, h iving obtained leave ol absence, takes his denarture to-day, for a holiday trip. Mr Terry, of the il-jefton o.ticw, relieves him. Wolf and Co., butchers, advertise their list of retail prices in to-day's piper. The Xational Bank, and 'the Bank of New Zealand, rnaie their usual monthly op nings here for ordinary business, on Saturday next. The United Alpine Co's half-yearly meeting, lapsed for want of a quorum. In both the Unite,! Jitndy, and Tyr Conned com >iinies f ijje outgoing directors anil auditors were re-elected. Crushing operations at the United Alpine Company's battery are in full swing, w ih the twenty heads and four berdans running. Everything works very smootlhy. and with great evenness. It has beeu found that a material improve inent can \t% made, by increasing tlie size of the pinion vv'ueei on the interm diate shaft. ; and with that oujeet, on* of a bigger diameter is being procured. We see by a late exchange, that 11.M.5. Espiegle, one of the Australian squadron ©f war-ship,-., is lmw cruiMug iu the vicinity ot Cable Bay. near Neiso.i ; the spot where the New Zealand eud oi tiie eafcle takes the shore. > Mr F. \V. Tattle, located here as i officer-in-oharge of the Tost and Telegraph Department for the bust four years, has keen promoted to (irey mouth ; for which place, ht leit by yesterday morning's coach. A large number of his friends met him at the Tost Office Ho.el, on Thursday evening, for the purpose of bidding him farewell, and expressing their best wishes for his future welfare, and happiness, in his new home. A very pleasant evening, hill of harmony and cordiality, was spent. Mr 11. (jr. Youngman, from Gre) mouth, succeeds Mr Tattle here. The tender of Cosgrove and party, has been accepted for driving the Lyell Creek Extd. Company's tunnel, 'i»J it>et. Work started on- Wednesday last. We draw the attention of those concerned, to the closing of tenders for the erection ol the bridge over the Matakitaki rivtr. Time and place ; —moon on Wednesday next, Public Work* Oiftce, Nelson. Portion of the road to connect Westport with Karamea is to be made, and it wdl be seen thai tenders for four section* between Bough and Tumble, and the latter place are being c die 1 for. Rough and Tumble ; what a name for a place ! but the chances are, it has been truly styled, aad in such case the title certainly becomes both a significant, and a descriptive tins. Tenders close at Mr Inglis' office, this evening, for the driving of «5J feet of tunnelling tor the United New South Wales Company. BiiuvKjix Stufj.—How many children ,\ud women arc slowly an I surely dvinr or rather being killed, by excessive doctoring, or the daily use of some drug or drunken stuff called medicine, that no one knows what it is made of, who can easily be cured and saved by American Co's Hop Bitters, which is so pure, simple, and harmless that the most frail wr>man, weakest invalid, or smallest child can trust in it 1 bee. Facts. Close confinement and. careful attention to a!! factory work gives the operatives pallid laces, poor appetite*, languid miserable feelings, poor blood, inactive liver, kidneys. &c, and all the physicians and medicine in the world cannot help them unless they get out of doors or uie American's Co's Hop Bitters. None need suffer if they will use it freely. See.