The Nelson Evening Mail FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1876.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 88, 31 March 1876, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1876.

Elsewhere will be found an interesting communication from a gentleman who visited the Karamea in the Charles Edward on her recent trip to that special settlement. He tells us frankly enough that what he writes ia the result of but a few hours observation, but he evidently made good use of that short time, and paid much attention to what he saw during his brief visit. The picture he draws is not an encouraging one, nor does it give much reason for hope that the Karamea settlement is ever likely to prove a success. For this, we would at once say, no blame is in our opinion to be attributed to our Provincial Government. Some mistakes, we believe, they did make at first, and these we pointed out at the time, but they have since been remedied, and no efforts have been spared to ensure the success of the settlement. But, like Jackson's Bay, the Karamea will, it is to be feared, prove a costly failure. There appears to be something faulty in the system of special settlements, no matter how well-intentioned or how hard working may be the ad-* ministrators of ib. Good land accessibly situated requires no such inducements as are offered to special settlers to ensure its being taken up and worked. Poor laud, difficult of access^ will not find favor with any class of settler, be he special or ordinary, nor will it pay either the one or the other to spend his time and labor in cultivating it. Our correspondent tells us that he could not but wonder what these men would do when the Government supplies "were stopped, Others, too, have often and seriously thought over this matter, and have come to the conclusion that the end of the settlement must be contemporaneous with the cessation of Government aid.