NELSON. [From the Nelson Examiner, April 27.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 497, 8 May 1850, Page 2

NELSON. [From the Nelson Examiner, April 27.]

The American barque Le Baron has called here on her way from Sydney to California to fill up with tbe produce of our settlement. This will be the first direct shipment from Nelson to the land of gold, though we beliere some of our produce will have found its way there before by the way of Wellington ; but we are happy to find that preparations are making by our own settlers to despatch two or three vessels on their own account with as little delay as possible. Nor do we expect that the Le Baron will be the only vessel calling at Nelson in search of cargo, which may be obtained here more cheaply, and withgreater facility, than in the other settlements, in tbe colony.

[From the Sydney Morning Herald, April 18th.J The Neptune, with the " Cape Convicts" had arrived at Hobart Town. Lord Grey in his despatch to Sir H. Smith, approves of his Excellency's conduct in detaining the Neptune in Simon's Bay, and certainly, with a very bad grace, complies with the will of the colonists that the convicts should not be landed. On their arrival at Van Diemen's Land all the men (with the exception of thirty who had misconducted themselves) received conditional pardons. A ticket-of-leave foi the district of Bothwell was granted to Mitchell. The And- Convict Association at the Cape was dissolved, and the inhabitants were to have an illumination to celebrate the triumph which the colonists had obtained.

[London correspondent of Sydney Morn. Herald."} 13th December, 1849. You will have seen, before the receipt of this, and probably have inserted in your columns, the secondlong " Steam Article" from Southampton, which has lately appeared in the Times newspaper. I refer to the number of that journal of the 10th instant. I have now no doabt whatever how affairs stand. The entire article is, so far as the Australian colonies are concerned, an elaborate attempt to popularise the Atlantic and Pacific route to your shores, at the expense of other routes. Now I have heard, and I am strongly inclined to believe, that an intimate tripartite alliance has been formed between the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, the Pacific Steam Navigation Company, and the New Zealand Company ! I have heard that the last will use all its power and influence to get the Central American as the established route. Thus New Zealand would get first served— South Australia last. I leave you and the colonists to decide which is the best route for New South Wales interests— if you are convinced by the reasonings of those who are in favour of the Panama route, well and good» but it is right you shoulJ have a hint that the " New Zealand Interest" is busying itself in the matter, and that the convenience of that settlement will, beyond all doubt, occupy the first consideration.