THE NELSON EXAMINER. Nelson, April 23, 1842.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, 23 April 1842, Page 26

THE NELSON EXAMINER. Nelson, April 23, 1842.

! Lea joumaux deviennent plus ne'eessaires a mesure que 1 leshommes tout plus £gaux, et 1' individualiame plus a > craindre. Cc terait diminuer leur importance que de croire ' qu' iU ne servent qu' a garantir la liberty : ils maintienneat ' lit civilisation. ~ 1 Dx TocauaviLLi. > .. De la Democratic en Amerique, tome 4, p. 220. I Journals become 'more necessary as men become more equal, and individualism more, to be' feared, It would be to underrate their importance to suppose that they serve only 1 to secure liberty : they maintain civilization. ' -De Toc«u«vill«. 1 Of Democracy in America, vol. 4, p. 220. Two most important communications appeared in our last number; one, Mr. I Tuckett's " Report of an Examination of : the Shores and Lands adjacent at Massacre \ Bay, Tasman's Gulf, and also at Wanganui, : on "the Western Coast of the Middle Island, New Zealand ;" and the other a letter from ; .Mr. Barnicoat, descriptive of a portion of , the valley of the Waimea. Who that has read both these can question for a moment that the settlers at Nelson have the best possible reasons for congratulating themselves on the site which has been selected for their home ? Mr. Tuckett returns from his exploratory trip with accounts the most encouraging. He tells us that he has found coal and limestone, the former particularly of the very finest description, in our immediate neighbourhood — both easily available, and at a very slight expense. - We have opened to us, then, at once the means of making use of the vast powers of the steam engine, which has brought about such wondrous changes in. older countries, and with which new countries will, ere long, be in a situation to rival, if not surpass, the old. It becomes now the duty of all^o urge the immediate application to that purpose of the fund set aside by the New Zealand Company for the establishment of steam vessels to ply from this, settlement. We have heard of some talk of a public meeting for the purpose of calling the attention of the Company to the subject. Whatever be the means adopted, there can be no doubt that the object is one it should be endeavoured immediately to attain ; and we are certain that the Company will be found willing at once to enter into any arrangement which the experience of those who, from being on the sp»t» have the best means of judging shall suggest. We are unwilling to urge this subject with too great empressment, lest we should appear to doubt the energy of our fellow-citizens. We have expressed our opinion on.it rather as" representatives of what we believe to be that of the public than as whippers-in of the unenergetic and the uninterested. The portion of the valley of the Waimea which Mr. Barnicoat's letter refers to, is not so fertile nor so generally desirable as that which lies on the other side of the river, and which has not yet fallen under his observation. We say this on good authority ; and we doubt not that from one of the gentlemen now employed in surveying that district we shall soon receive accounts which will show that even the luxuriant district of the Hutt it hot without a rival. Mr. Barnicoat says truly, " the inhabitants of , Nelson may congratulate themselves."