NELSON.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 252, 29 December 1847, Page 3

NELSON.

[From the Nelson Examiner.'] Major Richmond, accompanied by his daughter, arrived on Sunday last in the Racehorse, and has assumed the duties of Superintendent and Resident Magistrate. An ofti- . cial notice of the appointment, the first we have seen, will be found in our advertising column. Mr. Sinclair, our former Resident Magistrate, has been superseded, but we hear that an offer was made him to continue Sheriff and Commissioner of the Court of Requests, at a salary of £100 a year ; but we believe it has been declined. If this is the ca,se, we hope the Registrar of Deeds will be required to do the business of the Court of Requests, until the duties of his own office should increase to an extent to make this arrangement inconvenient. We hope no further un-

necessary offices will be created, to entail heavy future "expenses on the colony. We fear the Government is becoming too lavish of its patronage : but it »is more in the way of appointing new servants, than by properly remunerating old ones.

Exports. — Our export list for the past week is heavier than we have ever before seen it. The Brightman, a ship carrying 500 tons, has cleared out and sailed with a cargo entirely the produce of this settlement : the Lady Mary Pelham, carrying 250 tons, is also full of New Zealand produce, the greater part of which has been shipped here ; the brig Julia had a quantity of oil on board, but filled up with timber ; and a couple of coasters have loaded for Wellington. The Brightman will return from Sydney in about two months with another large cargo of sheep and cattle, when we hope another return cargo of some kind will be ready for her.

New Coasters. — A schooner of about five and twenty tons, named the Lucinda, which has been built in Massacre Bay for the natives, came over to get her register on Monday last. She looks a nice little vessel, and does the builder credit. — Nelson Examiner, Dec. 11. We believe that the money voted by the Council for public works in Nelson last October twelvemonth, is at length to be expended. In addition to the £500 for roads, the expenditure of which was ordered two months ago, the Superintendent intends to apply to the same purpose a portion of the sum voted for a gaol. It is thought thtft £400 will give us a gaol which will serve the settlement for many years, and that the remaining £400 may be moie usefully employed iv improving the means of communication in the settlement. We think that every one will concur in this. The sum voted for buoys is also forthwith to be applied ; and as it is likely our harbour will soon become the resori of a far greater number of shipping than it has been hitherto, buoys are rendered highly necessary. There is another improvement contemplated of great service to the port. An offer has been made to the Superintendent to blast, at a trifling expense, the rocks which obstruct the entrance of the harbour and narrow the channel by at least a third. This would render the access comparatively easy, and be of great benefit. — Examiner, Dec. 18. The schooner Amazon, built at the southern part of this island, "and fitted out at Wellington as a colonial whaler last autumn, arrived here on Thursday last. Since leaving Wellington, she has taken only ten tuns of sperm oil, and that was during the first month she was out. For five months past she has not taken a fish, and has experienced a continual succession of westerly gales. She has come in here to victual and refit. — Ib.