ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. To the Editor of the New Zealand Spectator. Wellington, 27th June, 1848.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 304, 28 June 1848, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. To the Editor of the New Zealand Spectator. Wellington, 27th June, 1848.

Sir, — An interval of about three months has elapsed, without a single arrival at this port direct from Auckland ; . a circumstance which cannot fail to impress on every unbiassed mind, the want of a proper sympathy existing at the seat of Government, with the first and chief of the Company's settlements in these islands, and thereby leaving its inhabitants wholly uninformed of what is passing thereat, of which they would be left in total ignorance but for what they occasionally glean from the Sydney Journals, and are consequently precluded from even expressing an opinion of approval or dissent to measures which are in all piobability within so long a period enacting there for their adoption ; nor is this the only evil occasioned thereby but they have additionally to complain that a large mass of correspondence forwarded there from Europe, through its more constant and expeditious intercourse, via the East Indies, Fort Phillip, and Adelaide, and from the islands of the Pacific, for the several settlements of New Zealand being addressed to the Postmaster General there under the natural inference of his being in constant intercourse with them, is permitted to be there for an indefinite period to await a casual and uncertain opportunity for conveyance, most frequently until the interest intended to be imparted thereby has ceased, or the advantage it adverted to, anticipated by others. , This is a serious neglect which, although already several times animadverted on in your columns, continues wholly unheeded, and surely if the Government i 3 either too poor or too penurious to employ two vessels regularly and constantly between its Northern and Southern settlements, so that its several members may feel they are attached to th« head, and have to

co-operate therewith for the mutual benefit and prosperity of all, it ought unhesitatingly at once to re-establish the Overland Conveyance affordded them when the country was far more intricate and difficult of access than it now is ; in order that they may at least be able to calculate upon a monthly communication with the seat of Government, and the obtainment of their correspondence within that time. I am, Sir, Your most obedient servant, A Merchant at Port Nicholson.