NELSON.

Auckland Times, Volume 1, Issue 36, 2 March 1843, Page 2

NELSON.

There is. a degree, of talent above the common order in the Nelson Examiner, and at the same time a spirit about its notices which nsak£s us often regret that* we cannot copy some of them, We have frequeut--1 y been 1 n 1 onned. ■' ot t he aetvia 1 condition of this place, swamped as it is by a super-abundance of ot labouring population in proportion to the tew people of pro perty whose land or location is

yet established, Tne agricultural prospects of Nelson, nevertheless are highly spoken of by visiters who have been {despairing of her conditionin other respects, %We copy a catalogue et Querieswhich put us in mind of '°Oh where ?—and oh where?" in the old Scots' song : "What has become of the proclamation that f the Islands of New Mnnstsr and AfevV Leinster, with the islands adjacent, shall form a district to be called the district of Jielson V Where is our County Court 'to beholden monthly at in the said district ot jtelson ?* Where is our Judge ? 'Where are our Jury Lists?—where our Sheriff?—where the first sitting oh the third Tuesday in January 1843? and where, oh where, is the vernment Brig ? Verily and indeed this is a pretty state of things. 'Only leave us alone' is not such a bad prayer after all, it only get an answer to it, yea or nay, so that we might know at least what we are to expect. But this trifling with our most important interests is past all bearing; this sitting on leo-isiative benches and executive seats of honour, and playing at Government, is euough to try beyond endurance the patience of a community ot Jobs, this sitting there, overlooking the colony and ' seeing it go,' is weakness or wickedness, or both, beyond the ordinary experience or calculation ot such *dces in rulers, however bad thev may "nave beeu. fVMt. is there to say of such treatment ? Nothing (ittin< r but what we cannot and dare not say , nothing but what it would be at onee ridiculous and dangerous to say 111 earnest and lowering the just character ofour complaints to say in jest/*