NELSON.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume I, Issue 23, 15 March 1845, Page 3

NELSON.

We are at a loss to donceive where the " mistake " lay, seeing that his Honor the Superintendent was in the room adjoining the Court House at the time the election came off; and that Mr* Sinclair produced at the meeting a letter from his Honor, containing an extract from a despatch received by him from the Governor, which in substance, if not in the exact words, was as follows : — " Let Mr. Sinclair inform the inhabitants of Nelson, that if they will elect a gentleman to sit in the Legislative Council, and he arrives here before the beginning of March, I will confirm their choice." — Examiner, March 1. Our Wellington contemporary had an article on the Ist instant, charging the Nelson Postmaster with neglect, for not forwarding, by the Hazard, the mail of the Slams Castle. It is evident the Spectator has been misinformed on the subject, and we believe, when we slate the facts, he will agree with us that Mr. Carkeek exerted him«>elf to the utmost on the occasion. The Slams Castle arrived here on Suuday, the 26th ult., and her mail was received on shore early in the afternoon. This mail consisted of fifteen packages and seven loose letter bags, containing about 3300 letters and newspapers for all parts of New Zealand, indiscriminately mixed together. By teu o'clock on Monday morn-

ing, the Nelson letters and papers were sorted, and the weighing, marking, and delivering of these occupied nearly the whole of that day. The remainder of the mail had then to be sorted and made up for Auckland, Wellington, and New Plymouth, and every letter and paper stamped, and marked with the amount of postage. In addition to this, 680 letters had to be weighed, and the postage double marked. On Tuesday evening the Auckland and Russell mails were ready for ike Hazard, and if her commander had consented to r delay sailing until the following morning, the whole of the mail would have been put on board, as the Postmaster was willing to have worked all night to have got it ready. We can assure the Spectator that there is not in the colony a public servant more, zealous for the service than Mr. ,Carkeek,, nor one "more respected and esteemed by the settlers. — Examiner t Febiuarv 15.