NELSON.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 779, 1 October 1853, Page 3

NELSON.

Such is the irregularity and tardiness of communication between the distant settlements of New Zealand that our receiving intelligence from parts of our own colony first by way of Australia is by no means a rare occurrence. The following extract, taken from the Melbourne Argus of the Glh of September, is one proof of this. We had only heard of the nomination of Superintendent of the Nelson Province; in Melbourne they knew the result of the polling.

From Nelson we have a file of the Examiner to the Glh ultimo. The contest for the Supcrinlcndency had ended in the election of Mr. Stafford, ihe following was the stale of the poll, so far as asccrlained ; the only return wanting being (hat from Wairau, where the voles were said (o he chiefly in favour of the successful candidate For Stafford, 250 ; for Saxton, 205 ; for Jollic, 127. New scams of coal have been opened in Massacre Bay, and a more regular system of working adopted. Already the coal has much improved in quality, and the further the seams arc gone into the heller the results. The Nelson people seem sanguine that ere long (hey will have coals which will answer every purpose, both lor local fuel and for steam navigation.