NELSON. [From the Nelson Examiner, May 11]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 500, 18 May 1850, Page 3

NELSON. [From the Nelson Examiner, May 11 ]

We are glad to welcome in the arrival of te Lu.dy Nugent, another considerable body of emigrants to our settlement. Of the diffe- | rent classes of passengers — cabin, fore-cabin, and steerage, we have altogether an accession of seventy-seven souls, to our population. We learn, also, that another ship was to sail on the 3rd of February, and that the Company intend despatching a vessel to their settlements every second month. One of the passengers by the Lady Nugent, though not intending to become a permauent resident among us, i 3 yet likely to make his temporary sojourn ol considerable importance to the colony. The Hon. A. G. Tollemache, the colossus of absentee New Zealand proprietors, has very wisely paid the colony a visit, to judge for himself of the value of his property; and we have reason to believe that Mr. Tollemache will set an example of liberal dealings with his land, which cannot be lost on oLher absentee proprietors. Mr. Tollemache is the holder of no less than thirty-seveu allotments of land in' Nelson, besides large property in some of the other settlements. Another gentleman, a passenger by the Lady Nugent, has come out for the purpose of erecting a steam saw and flour mill and thrashing machine. Mr. Eliot's arrival is most fortunate, both for the settlement and himself, for an excellent opening for his speculation exists here, such indeed as is rarely to be met with. But the Lady Nugent is a fortunate vessel, for her passengers altogether seem to be of a superior class ; we have a favourable specimen of the substantial Scotch farmer in Mr. William M'Rae, brother of Mr. G. M'Rae of Pitfure. Mr. W. M'Rae has been for some years farming a considerable property at Bonavarce, county of Clare, Ireland, which he abandoned in consequence of the wretched state of that unhappy country, and his doing so caused no small sensation far beyond bis own immediate circle. An address from between seventy and eighty of the principal gentlemen of the county was presented to Mr. M'Rae on the occasion of his departure, from which we cannot resist making a short extract :—": — " Your systematical exertions lo im- j part agricultural instruction, botb by precept and example, will be long remembered with gratitude by those whp had the good fortune to enjoy your acquaintance, while the hundreds whom your employment kept from pauperism will never cease co deplore the loss of a generous benefactor,"