THE NELSON EXAMINER. Nelson, Aug. 20, 1842.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 24, 20 August 1842, Page 94

THE NELSON EXAMINER. Nelson, Aug. 20, 1842.

Les journaux deviennent plus neceisaires a mesure que les hommes sout plus egaux, et l'individualisme plus a craindre. Ce serait diminuer leur importance que de croire qu' ils ne servent qu' a garantir la libete : ils maintiennent la civilisation. DE TOCQUEVILLE De la Democratic en Amerique, tome *, p. 220. 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 to secure liberty: they maintain civilization. De TocacsyiLLX. Of Democracy in America, vol. 4, p. 290.

Mr. William Curling Young was drowned on the afternoon of Sunday last, the 14th of August, in attempting, in company with Mr. Thomas Bradford Titchener, to ford the Wairoa river. The particulars of this mournful event appear in the report of the investigation which took place before the magistrates. It is not for us to obtrude our own griefs upon the public, nor is it in the character of his private friend that we would pay tribute to the noble qualities of our lost fellowcolonist, whom none knew without admiring, none knew intimately without loving. All must feel that there was not one amongst us whose loss would have made sad so many hearts; and, feeling his loss now, we shall continue to do so; his memory cannot die out from amongst us, for he cannot be replaced. The daily recurrence of occasions when he would have been present with us, active, with that exuberant hopefulness, the influence of which was always around him a halo of cheering light, will not allow us to forget him. By the immigrants, especially the poorer class, he was beloved, not because an idle prodigality made him liberal of gifts, but because in all situations in which, as immigration agent, he was placed —situations so trying to men, like him, of an enlarged humanity —he allowed nothing to interrupt the amiable considerateness of his treatment or alter the sustained kindliness of his manner. All that could has been done to testify the universal esteem in which he was held. A community of mourners have buried their, dead out of their sight. The trappings and the suits of woe may not have been so mournfully magnificent as those which have attended to the grave the remains of many a less worthy man; but the grief which of the heart was there; the saddened countenance was the index of the mind, and the sombre covering was but a symbol of the darkness within, for a bright light had been quenched in the midst of us, and it might not be relumed. Without daring to intrude on the sacredness of grief, by dwelling on the misery which awaits those to whom a greater distance and a closer tie have given a temporary reprieve but an intenser suffering, we leave the beautiful and the noble, the great and the good, the lovely and much-beloved, to the silent decay which awaits all of him that can perish; and for the spirit which informed the body, which we shall behold no more, the icy hand of death has not touched that. "It is a portion of the loveliness which once it made more lovely." The body of Mr. William Curling Young was buried in the Haven Cemetery, by the side of his friend, Mr. Henry Angelo Bell. The funeral procession left his house at a quarter past two. There were four pallbearers, his fellow-passengers in the ship Mary Anne, Mr. Cautley, Mr. Elliott, Mr. Howroyd, and Mr. Valle. Mr. Richardson and Mr. Titchener followed as chief mourners. Upwards of 200 persons attended, and all the shops were closed during the progress of the procession. The funeral service was performed by the Rev. Charles Saxton.

A deputation of the working classes have waited upon the friends of Mr. Young, to request to be allowed to mark their respect by erecting a monument to his memory exclusively amongst themselves.

On Saturday last, the 13th instant, Mrs. Mary Saxton, the lady of the Rev. Charles Saxton, died at his house, after an illness of rather more than a fortnight. She was buried in the Hallowell Cemetery on the afternoon of the following Monday, the Rev. Charles Saxton performing the service in the absence of any other clergyman of the Church of England.

We direct the attention of our readers to an advertisement calling a public meeting for the purpose of establishing a Land Association, to take place on Tuesday next, at Mr. Cockburn's, Auckland Point.

We have this week received papers from various quarters : from Sydney to the 30th of July, by which we are enabled to furnish our readers with English news to the 22d of April ; from Geelong to the 13th of June, Auckland to the 28th of July, and Port Nicholson to the 6th of August, many of the extracts from which will be found highly interesting.

We learn from the Government Gazette, a file of which we have received, that his Excellency the Governor has issued a proclamation declaring Wellington a borough. All claims for the right of voting at the first election of the council are to be made before the 30th of the present month. Ecclesiastical appointments, gazetted 12th July:— Rev. W. Williams, B.A., archdeacon of the district of East Cape. Venerable Archdeacon Williams and Rev. Thomas Whytehead, examining chaplains to the Bishop. Rev. W. Cotton, M.A., domestic chaplain to the Bishop. Rev. J. F. Churton, M. A., minister of the township of Auckland. Rev. R. Cole, minister of the township of Wellington. Rev. H. Williams, commissary of the bishop for the district of the Bay of Islands, and a surrogate for the granting of marriage licenses. Rev. J. F. Churton, surrogate for the district of Auckland. Rev. R. Cole, surrogate for the district of Wellington.

The Bishop of New Zealand had arrived at Wellington in the Victoria brig when the Perseverance left, and his arrival here may be momentarily looked for. The following is a letter addressed to the Editor of the New Zealand Gazette, just previous to the visit of the Bishop :— " Sir — I perceive in to-day's Colonist that the Bishop maybe now expected hourly. Ought not a public meeting immediately to be called, and an address voted him ? From the high character he bears, it will indeed be a slight if such an address is neglected."