We are very badly treated even in comparison with the charges on the Auck land-Onehung- line, where passengeis are conveyed 16 miles first-class for Is 6d, as against Is 9d for a little over 12 miles on the Lyttelton line. That tlie Department are losing money by this.policy of extortion we are perfectly convinced. Now,' nobody goes to Lyttelton from Christchurch unless he is compelled to do so. If the fares were as cheap ns those on the tramway, thousands would go for pleasure. With the attrac tions of the shipping and the pleasant walk to Sumner and Governor's Bay, Lyttelton DUght to be one of our most favourite holi day resorts. The Government might also with advantage study the convenience of sea going passengers more than they do. The rains, as we have often pointed ont, should run alongside the steamers, so that pas sengers could step from one to the other, and ;et their luggage transferred with the mini num of.inconvenience. Mr Ward can make limself very popular .with the Canterbury mblic if ha will bring a little common-sense md business foresight to bear on the nanagement of the Lyttelton line. We hope hat he will not lose the opportunity

WANTED A CREMATORIUM,

to account

West Australia has baen the first of the Australasian colonies to set about the build ing of a crematorium-'for the disposal of the bodies of tne dead. In New South Wales the bodies, of victims of the plague are buried in the quarantine stations; West Australia refuses to allow this, but- has buried the body of one of the victims some miles out at sea, and now proposes to build a crematorium for future cases. It is on the outbreak of a fell disease like plague that the necessity, cr at any rate the great desirability of cremation becomes evident. But this method for the disposal of the dead, even in ordinary cases, has much to be said in its favour. It was in 1874 that Sir Henry Thompson instituted the Cremation Society of London, and from that time to this the progress of the movement has been wonder ful, when it is considered how strong are tha forces of custom opposed to it. In 1879 the erection of the crematorium at Woking was stopped by the authorities; but it was after wards allowed, and it was first used in 1885. 