NELSON. [From the Nelson Examiner.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume I, Issue 46, 23 August 1845, Page 4

NELSON. [From the Nelson Examiner.]

German Emigration. — The statement we made a few weeks since of a ship with German emigrants being expected here was, • we now learn, premature. We are authorized to state that the next body of these useful settlers may be expected to arrive in December. A foolish report has been circulated lately, stating that a vessel with emigrants from Bremen, intended for this place, had changed her destination, and had gone to Adelaide. We can state positively, that this story is untrue, and that it was never contemplated to send to this colony the Germans who lately arrived in Adelaide from Bremen. We hear that a new company has been formed in London for the preparation of New Zealand flax. The capital is said to be very large ; but we are not in possession of any fuither particulars. There is also much talk of a company for running steamers to the Australian colonies. A letter, written in London on the 17th of March, received the other day by a gentleman in Nelson, says, " In my next I will send you a prospectus of an East Indian and Colonial Screw-propeller Navigation Company. They intend to have branch steamers from the Cape to Australia and New Zealand."

The Lugger Hydrus. — This fine little vessel, which left Nelson for Mokau on the 17 th of June, had not arrived at the latter place in the early part of last week. The cutter Lively, which left here at the same time, reached Kawhia and Manakau in safety, and we are ignorant of any cause to which we can attribute the non-arrival of the Hydrus at Mokau. It is true there is a report abroad that she went into Queen Charlotte's Sound and exchanged a part of the goods put on board for trade for a large stock of provisions, and sailed thence for Tahiti or some other of the islands; but we hope her speedy return will disprove this story, and her absence be satisfactorily accounted for.