THE NELSON EXAMINER. Nelson, Aug. 13, 1842.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 23, 13 August 1842, Page 90

THE NELSON EXAMINER. Nelson, Aug. 13, 1842.

Les journaux deviennent plus ne'eessaires & mesure qne les homines tout plus igaux, ct V individualisme plui v crairidre. Co serai t diminuer leiii importance que-de croire qu' Us ne serveat qu' a garantir i% liberty : ill maintiennent la civilisation, j Dk Tocqdevillb. De la Democratic en Amerique, tome 4, p. 220. Journal* 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 -to secure liberty : they maintain civilization. DE TOCftUEVILLB. Of Democracy in America, vol. 4, p, 320.

We do not consider ourselves responsible for all the opinions which it may jslease our correspondents to express, nor is it necessary at all times to announce a difference of view. It is undoubtedly opento us to refuse .admission to communications ; but there is no duty more ungracious. The lengthened communications which we have received from " An Englishman," the large portion of our columns which they have been permitted to occupy, render it necessary for us most distinctly to disclaim accordance with his views when they materially differ from our own, lest we should be considered as inserting them rather as communicated articles than as bona fide" correspondence, and so to a certain extent fathering the sentiments they contain. What our correspondent would be at, we profess ourselves utterly unable to divine. What he thinks he means is, and will ever be to us, matter of doubt. It is unfortunate for us that it should be necessary for this disclaimer to appear in the same number with a letter which contains a somewhat flippant, though not ill-natured censure of sentiments expressed by a gentleman known to be connected with this paper. But not even the fear of being accused of an unjust partiality of so discreditable a nature, could induce us silently to insert a letter which, admitted through courte9y, it would perhaps have been better to have excluded — which is inimical, if not hostile to the settlement —which plays with the alleged failings of the gentleman to whom it is addressed, in a manner -which makes it evident that they are regarded rather as good subjects for resultless critical comment than for animadversion which should lead to alteration or amendment —and by which no conceivable object either of public or private benefit could be attained, or, as it appears to us, even contemplated.

The plough is well at work in the Waimea district. The results of Mr. Kerr's and the Messrs. Tytler's tilling will, we doubt not, afford an answer to the gentlemen who were so anxious to show that nothing could be done now, and that nothing could be lost by delaying the giving out the first lot of lands until the whole survey was completed.**We wish some of them may try the experiment, and be agreeably disappointed in their expectations. We are astonished that even the small number who were found to support so strange a notion, should exist among us. Delay of any sort is so dangerous in these matters, that it might have been expected that even actual sacrifices of smaller, advantages would have been most willingly made, for the immediate and lasting benefit derivable from setting at once to work. But to set forth nominal evils, some slight personal inconvenience, a childish pique at an alleged injustice, which, if it exist, is so far of the past as to be unalterable by our doings —to dress these up to look like good reasons for cutting our own throats is too much to be believed of sensible men, if sensible men were always men of sense; but unfortunately they are not, and therefore it is that these things come to pass, and the doers of them think that " they are doing God service." We have seen a copy of a newly established paper, published at Wellington, called the New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser. The typography is creditable, the size of the sheet just larger

than the Gazette. The ice is broken by a leader, which announces the partiality and narrow views of the Gazette as tho parents* !of the Colonist. " The prosperity of Port * Nicholson as a part, and, for the present, at least, the most important part, of New Zealand," is, in effect, its profession of i'aith. Neither Government nor Company its motto. Two articles dwell especially upon the necessity of road-making being undertaken by the Company. We give the only matter of general practical importance in another column, and beg the attention of our readeVs ' to it. We presume that the conductors of the Colonist have taken the usual steps to supply us with copies of their paper, but are not surprised at having received none, as we know that the only papers which do 'not arrive here from Wellington are those that are put into the box of the Post Office.

We begin this week a new Weather Table. We have been for some time anxious to procure the means of affording a really correct statement of the temperature, but have until now been unable to do so. It will be seen that tfie glass from which this table is made up is always in the shade. The situation also is rather elevated, so as to give *a somewhat lower result than wquld bs ex^pected by those living in less e^^osed parts of the town. The gentleman- to whose kindness we are indebted for tlie particulars has had so much experience in these matters as to leave us no room to doubt their accuracy.