CORRESPONDENCE.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, 26 March 1842, Page 12

CORRESPONDENCE.

To thb Editor of the Nelson Examiner.

, Sir — In the advertisement of the proceedings of the public meeting held on the 12th instant for the purpose of appointing a committee to name, the public plarts of this town, the following resolution is stated to have been passed : — " That the thanks of the meeting be given to Mr. Tuckett for getting a plan of - the town acres ready for inspection a fortnight before the time appointed for selection." This was not the resolution which was proposed. It was not for preparing a plan before the day of selection, but for preparing a small plan especially for the convenience of reference, that Mr. Tuckett was considered to be entitled to our acknowledgments. I am, sir, Your obedient servant, A Land Agent.

Dublin. — There is no doubt, we believe, of the fact that Mr. O'Connell will be returned as Lord Mayor of Dublin at' the ensuing municipal election. He is preparing his -state carriage for it already. This is reaction sure enough! — Glasgow Reformers' Gazette. In a late Hobart Town paper is the following paragraph, copied from a London paper : — ." Lieut. Bennet, R.E., who lately commanded a department of the Ordnance survey in Ireland, and whose admirable system of hill drawing, or contouring, as approved by Colonel Colby, R.E., is now. generally adopted, has sailed for New Zealand, as commanding Royal Engineer at that station." General Harrison on Schoolmasters. — The late General Harrison, President of the United States, appears, from the following anecdote, to have considered that the moral improvement of the young is of greater value in the preventing crime, than the ordinary penal checks which are interposed. In his last out-of-door exercise, the general was engaged in assisting the gardener to adjust sbme grape vines. The gardener remarked that there would be but little use in trailing the vines, so far as any fruit was concerned, as the boys would come on Sunday, while the family were at church, and steal all the grapes ; and suggested to the general, as a guard against such a loss, that he should purchase 'an active watch-dog. " Better," said the general, " to employ an active Sabbath school teacher; a dog may take care of the grapes, but a good Sabbath school teacher will take care of the grapes and jthe boys too."