LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume II, 13 January 1844, Page 384

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

Our valuable Motuaka settlersj Messrs. Murray, Morse, and Rogers, have imported » this week 100 sheep from Wellington in the Star of China. Mr. Murray, who is at present at Wellington, has made further purchases there, which we believe he will forward by the first opportunity. 1 50 sheep have also been brought from New Plymouth in the Himalaya. ,^-1 We are happy to find that among the ' passengers of the Himalaya there are some ' gentlemen who are likely to prove highly valuable settlers. One of these, Mr. Martin, has brought with him a first-rate entire ! draught horse, and a very superior ram. The latter was shorn on board, and the clip j weighed 9 lbs. ! Pearman, who was last week charged with assaulting the Immigration Agent, and threatening to shoot the constables, was committed for trial on Monday for the latter offence, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment for the former. On Thursday, J. G. Saunders was fined 255. for assaulting J. Collins. As an instance of the benefit to be de- . rived from the use of lime on fern land, we j have heard that the result of an experiment I made by Mr. Sanger, of Suburban South, on a quarter of an acre of wheat sown in I May last, has been most satisfactory. The j situation chosen was "by no means favour-*' able, it being without shelter of any kind«J and the fern was of the most stunted sort yet we have been assured that the crop was equal to a good average one in the best cultivated lands of England. On Wednesday we were visited with a few hours' rain*. Though less than could have been desired, it was still of great service. We believe the crops have suffered no material injury as yet from the drought;

but the early sown - grain is decidedly the best. Another party started on Tuesday for the Wairau by the Pelorus and Eaituna Pass, consisting of Messrs. Drake and Bishop and one of the Maories who acted as guides in a former expedition to the Pelorus. This man professes to be well acquainted with the route, and indeed came to Nelson by it in the early part of last week. He is one of the nearly extinct tribe of Rhangatanis, who were all but exterminated by Rauparaha twelve or fourteen years since. Want of room compels us to omit all notice of English news, also, a well written letter from a Wanganui settler, which appeared in the New Zealand Gazette of the 6th instant.