NELSON.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VII, Issue 453, 7 March 1857, Page 7

NELSON.

MEETING ON STEA.M COMMUNICATION.. At a meeting of..merchants and other gentlemen,, held in Nelson, "on Tuesday, the 10th February, 1857, to consider the question of the proposed steam postal communication between Australia and New Zealand—Donald Sinclair Esq., Speaker of the Provincial Council, in the chair—the following resolutions were unanimously passed:— Proposed by James Mack'ay, Esq., and seconded by H. C. Curtis Esq., M.H.R.: —" 1. That in order to do equal justice io the several provinces of New Zealand, the contract mail steamer from Australia should make for the nearest and -most central port of the colony of New Zealand," Proposed by Mr. C. Elliott, M.H.R., and seconded by Dr. Ren wick, M.P.C., —" 2. That the trunk-line steamer from Australia should call in the - first instance at Nelson, arid after landing the mails for Wellington, Canterbury, and Otago, should proceed to Taranaki and Manukau, and return from thence "to Nelson to meet the inter-provincial steamer from the ' south, in order to be able to convey the whole of the return mails to Australia in accordance with the subjoined table of routes :— Intee-Coloniai. Route, ......-,. >■ .■-,-■■ Days. Sydney to Nelson . . , .7. Stay at ';, . . . , . 1 Nelson to Taranaki , , . ..." 1 Stay at „ '.-. . . . . (^ Taranaki to Manukau._ /,.,., ..'...1' 'IPV Stay at •' „ • • . , , • . - 4 Return from Manukau to Taranaki • . 1 '."''.'. Stay at " „ . .' i 0£Taranaki to Nelson . .1 Stay at „ . . 1 ' Nelson to Sydney ■ , .7 ••"■■■.'" ' ; 25 -■ Inteb-Prqvincial-RotrTE. - ' ■ . Days. Nelson to Wellington . . , .. 1 Remain at „ -.;..-•' , . • •'■ 0$ Wellington to Canterbury . , . L§. Remain at „ . . . -Of Canterbury to Otago . , „ .If Remain at „ . . . . 1^

Return from Otago to Canterbury : . • 1| ■■.'■'•■-■■ . Remain at „ .. • O3 ■ " Canterbury to Wellington 1^ Remain at „ . . 0£ Wellington to Nelson , ... .1; •"::■ . • ■:".;:■■■ - 5* Proposed by W. T. L. Travers, Esq., M.H.R., and seconded by G. Ridings, Esq. :- —" 3. That in order to maintain a passenger-traffic between tho various provinces, the inter-provincial steamer should make a second trip in each month to Wellington, Port Cooper, and Otago, starting from; Nelson immediately after the return of the mail-contract steamer from. Manukau and-New.'. Plymouth.*'Proposed by W. R. Nicholson, Esq., seconded by Dr. Ren wick:—" 4. That copies of the foregoing resolutions be transmitted by the Chairman to the Colonial Secretary, to his Honor the Superintendent, and to the Superintendents of the other provinces."