NELSON. [From the Nelson Examiner, Nov. 11.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 345, 22 November 1848, Page 3

NELSON. [From the Nelson Examiner, Nov. 11.]

;Tlie_ Bernini, from London the 7th of July, arrived here on Sunday last, having called at- New Plymouth on her way. She has 23 cabin, 13 fore cabin, and 117 intermediate and steerage passengers, for the New Zealand Company's settlements, with a general cargo. The commander of the Bernicia is ooru r old acquaintance, Captain Arnold, formerly of the Fifeshhe, the first Nelson emigrant ship, and which, from the ignorance of the -person ' who then acted as pilot, was wrecked ori leaving the harbour. Several of the' passengers, we are happy to find, are for Nelson, and ameng them our old fellow-colo-nist, Mr. Ward, who has greatly exerted himself during a short sojourn in England in giving publicity to the advantages which this settlement offers. The Bernicia has made a tolerable passage of something less than four months. Passengers for Nelson — Mr. Mrs. and Miss Ward, Miss Field, Master Greenwood, Mr. Godfrey, and Mr. Osborne. For the ©t-her settlements — Mr. and Mrs. Williams and family, Mr. and Mrs. Brown and family, Mr. and Mrs. Milne, Mr. Cass, Mr. Torlasse, Sir W. Congreve, Cnpt. Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Fraser arid family, Mr. Macintyre, Mr.Ofmaston, Mr. Loudon, Mr. Paul, and Messrs. A. and H. Lakeman. On the day the Bernicia crossed the line, a lad, one of the crew, was unfortunately lost overboard. It happened that the fact was not immediately known as a certainty by those on deck, and irom a quarter of an hour to twenty minutes was allowed to elapse before the captain was made acquaint >d that a t-uspicion existed that such an accident had taken place. The bands were then immediately summoned, and it was found that one of the boys was missing. As however the vessel had been running all the time before a fresh breeze, and as it. had become quite dusk, and the niglii ihteatened to be dark, Capt&iu Arnold was reluctantly compelled to abandon all hopes of saving the boy, for to have launched a boat at that hoar would only have been risking the loss of her whole crew. We understand that a despatch from the New Zealand Company, relating to the Nelson Trust Funds, has been received by the Bernicia, anJ we believe we shall next week have an opportunity ol laying it before our readers. Jd the meanwhile we are glad to be able to state that there seems every probability that th.c whole of the Tiust Funds due to the settlement will be immediately forthcoming, for the Company promise that the next vessel shall bring out a full statement of the expen-dimre,-aud the sum of .£25,000 has been invested in the Funds on account of ths settlement. > The next vessel for the Cook's, SlTait'settlements, to be chartered by the New Zealand Company, was to sail on the 3dof September, to make Otakou her first poitj- The Susan, a Brig of 212 tons, the property, we believe, of Mr. J. Beit, was to leave London on the Bth of July, for Wellington and Auckland, and the Duke of Rutland, 533 tons, was advertised to sail for Auckland and Wellington on the Ist September. The Slams Castle, from Porf Phillip, which called at Wellington on her way through Cook's Strait, arrived in England in the latter end of June, after a quick passage, and thq, Woodstock, which sailed from Wellington on the 4th March, passed the Bernicia, in the Downs. The Comet arrived on Thursday from Newcastle, after a passage of fourteen days, with 760 sheep, having lost only 15 on the voyage. The Government Brig left Sydney for Auckland on the 20th of October; and the Acheron steamer, "and H.M.S. Havannah were about to proceed to the same port.