THE NELSON EXAMINER. Nelson, January 28, 1843.

Lies journaux devienneue plus necessaires a injure qtie les homines sont plus 6gaux, et 1' mdividualisme plus a craindre. Cc serait diminuer leur importance gun de croire qu' ils ne servent qu' a garnntir la liberty : Us tuaintiennent la civilisation. Dk TocatJEViLLB, De la Ddmocratie en Amerique, tome 4, p. 220. Journal* become more necessary as men brcome more equal, and individualism more to be feared. It would be to underrate their importance to suppose that they serve only to secure liberty : they maintain civilization. OB TOCftUKVILLE. Of Democracy in America, vol . 4, p. 220.

To judge by the spirit with which the thing has been taken up, by the amount of the subscriptions, and the regular attendance of the genttemen on the committee and various sub-committees at their place of meeting, it may be prognosticated that this Anniversary FSte of ours will not fail nor be vapid for want of a goodwill to make it otherwise. We are most happy to find it so. Opposers of expense not called for by necessity, under ordinary circumstances, we must say that we look upon this as an instance in which there is good excuse for breaking through a general rule. It were to be wished that to all, the fun of Wednesday next were a needed breathing after the toils and roughing of fir-t settlements. For the idle dawdlers to whom such occasions bring only the opportunity of seeming comparatively busy, because they are then, for a day at least, less emphatically idler than the rest of the world, — for them, we wish them no worse than a good sptll on the roads,, as a "beneficial mode of keeping the anniversary. For the hardworker, in mind or in body, we recommend him for one day to lock up his tools, after digging a hole in which' to bury all care and anxiety, to p*ut on his Suuday clothes, and atart forth with a who cares look .and a heart determined to be as merry as possible. Women, children, and all " turn out," especially you young ones ; set to at the cake, bread-and-butter, and tea, and laugh and dance as if it were your one single holiday in the whole year.

But listen ! Our beloved Pippa is about to speak. Mark, what she says of her day. See with what pomp it breaks, with what glory it " overflows the world :"— " Day ! Faster and more fast O'er night's brim day boils at last ; Boils, pure gold, o'er the cloud-cup's brim, Where spurting and suppressed it lay — For not a froth-flake toucned the rim Of yonder gap in the solid gray Of eastern cloud an hour away — But forth one wavelet then another curled, 'fill the whole sunrise, not to be supprest, Rose-reddened, and its seething breast Flickered in bounds, grew gold, then overflowed the world. Day, if I waste a wavelet of thee, Aught of my twelve-hours' treasureOne of thy gazes, one of thy glances •-'' (Grants thou art bound to, gifts above measure). One of thy choices, one of thy chances (Tasks God imposed thee, freaks at thy pleasure). Day, if I waste such labour or leisure, Shame betide Asolo, mischief to me ! But in turn, Day, treat me not As happy tribes — so happy tribes ! — who live - At hand — the common, other creatures' lot — Ready to take when thou wilt give, Prepared to pass what thou refusest ; Day, 'tis hut Pippa thou ill-usest, If thou prove sullen — me, whose old year's sorrow Who, except thee, can chase before to-morrow, Seest thou, my day? Pippa's — who means to borrow Only of thee strength against new year's sorrow : For let thy morning scowl on that superb, Great, haughty Ottima — can scowl disturb Her Sebald's homage ? And if noon shed gloom O'er Jules and Phene — what care bride and groom Save for their dear selves ? Then, obscure thy eve With mist — will Luigi and Madonna grieve — The mother and the child — unmatched, forsooth, She in her age as Luigi in his youth, For true content ? And once again, outbreak In storm at night on Monsignor they make Such stir to-day about, who foregoes Rome To visit Asolo, his brother's home, And say there masses proper to release The soul from pain — what storm dares hurt that peace ? But Pippa — just one such mischance would spoil, Bethink thee, utterly next twelvemonth's toil At wearisome silk-winding, coil on coil !"

If there > is one thing more to be desired than another, one feeling more essential to be developed than another in the native character, it is respect for the law. What precisely the term " respect for the law *» may mean as regards the Maories, it would be difficult to say. We have never been able to make iip our minds as to what is the average amount of real intelligence and developed intellectual capacity amongst them. Sometimes it appears as if indiscretion were shown hi treating with them too much as though they \v?re our equals in capacity ; sometimes, on the contrary, it appears to lie^ in acting towards them as to big children. To attempt to form a scheme which should govern our dealings with them, in this ignorance of what they do and what they do not understand, would be absurd ; but still, by watching the effect of any course of proceeding once adopted, guides for the future will be daily increasing. As regards this " respect for the law," it must be known that among a very large class of Englishmen it is but the effect of habit, not the result of any perception of the general importance of acting up to it, or of any connexion which is seen between individual comfort and safety and the universality of such respect. A considerable time may elapse before it will be possible to give the Maories any clear notion, which they shall understand and feel, of the necessity, for the safety of the individual, that the " general " should respect the law, or, for the safety of the " general," that the individual (I, number one) should also respect it ; but we cannot therefore wait, however desirable such/ a conviction may be, for the practical effects of this respect until they are brought about by such means. At least another generation will be required to do this at all universally. In the mean time we must have the habit in the present full-grown generation, or live in continual discord with them. The clearest, the readiest, the mos.t apparent mode of doing this, is to let them find the arm of the law ever-acting, never-failing, and, above all, as far aR may be, consistent. In qualifying with " as far as may be," we intend not consistency according to the views of educated Englishmen, but according to the views of the Maories themselves. Arbitrary and inconsistent the law will doubtless appear to them at times, when to us it seems, most regulated. The object is, whenever it may consist with justice, so to

administer it as to let them perceive the consistency, so that they may not have added to the cause of quarrel, arising from non-comprehension, that also arising from want of confidence; We have been led to this subject by one of those little outbreaks on the part of the natives which have called for the interference of the executive in our settlement, and by the comparison which we had drawn, in our minds between these and those whicli had occurred elsewhere. We esteem ourselves peculiarly happy in the result of every such case, and the particular one of which , we are speaking gave occasion for the display, in so marked a manner, of this so much to be sought respect, that we could not pass it oiter in silence. It is not that anything specially was done, but that in all that passed there was an evident looking to the law as the power which would redress any wrong done to them, and enforce from themselves also the restoration of the right. In itself the matter was almost too unimportant to have called for mention. Captain Thorns, a gentleman who arrived by the Prince of Wales, and who is now erecting a saw-mill at the Motuaka, had, through some misunderstanding, commenced operations by digging a pit on land, which eventually proved to be part of a native reserve, but to which he had- obtained a title, though not a good one, from the supposed owner, Mr. Moore, of the Motuaka, we believe. It appears to have been merely a mistake of boundaries. Epau, on a part of whose clearing the pit encroached, destroyed it, and spoke some big words, and this violence caused Mr. Thompson and Captain Wakefield to go over to the district, to settle the question at once, which, upon enquiry, as the circumstances proved to be as we have stated them, they easily did, to the perfect satisfaction of all parties. i

It is commonly reported here, and re* peated by those whom, on such matters, there is hardly room for doubting, that the Officer administering the Government does not intend visiting Nelson on leaving Wellington, but proposes to return to Auckland. Indeed we have heard that the Government Hbrig has actually left Wellington for Auckland. One hardly knows how to credit these things : day after day neglect upon neglect goes on accumulating, and at each we say to ourselves — " Well, now at least it, is over, the climax is attained ; prepare for a change, for it must come ; things are at* the worst, they must mend." Vain imagination, deceitful proverb, that word worst is far more comprehensive than is imagined, beneath the lowest depth a lower still is daily discovered, which Colonial Rulers, far-seeing .into .the deep* dense blackness, will give us also an opportunity of visiting and dwelling in. We are ashamed, sick of these eternal complainings, by which we are bound to proclaim the wrong done us, to announce our disgrace and their shame, and to affiche ourselves as the worst governed British community in the world. How much has been borne quietly in silence for long past, looking for the. hoped arrival of this brig and its cargo of redress for us ; and now, after all, this arrival is not to be. No excuse, no word of what is in store for us, no notice of the arrangements for the establishment of a court months ago proclaimed in Gazettes supposed to be of Government. Not a word of the sums of rnonay owed by the Government to merchants and tradesmen here. No word of anything. They neither pay their own debts, nor allow others to be obliged to pay theirs. Money is paid to Government in advance. No court is therefore requisite to recover debflKy Is there no day of reckoning which these men fear ? or, faithless of all save the present, do they believe in no future ?

Four of the men employed ia the survey of the Moutere have been engaged in prolonging one of the survey lines six milea into the interior of the country. The line

tuns in a direction about E.S.E., and towards the valley of the Motuaka, which it was supposed it would have intersected. It affords complete facility, as far as it goes, for exploring the country, which, owing to its being densely wooded, is otherwise difficult. The line (near the middle of it) is intersected by the high range which separates the Motuaka and Moutere valleys and their tributaries. It crosses one level valley of three-quarters of a mile in width, constaining four or five streams, and a few other " valleys of lesser importance. The rest of the country consists of hills more or less available. In the lower ground there is a considerable intermixture of pine, but on the hills black birch is the prevailing timber. The point where the line terminates is about nine or ten miles in a straight line from the highest point of the Motuaka at present surveyed. The valley there abruptly narrows, but is supposed to open again farther up. This fact may be readily deter- • mined by means of the line just cut, which, though falling short of the River Motuaka itself, has penetrated into its tributary valleys.

The approaching Agricultural Show leads men to pay special attention to the amount of produce obtained from any particularly fine crops which they may have ; and, in conversations on this subject, our attention has been drawn, among others, to the following instances of extraordinary productiveness in the clearings in the neighbourhood of the town, "which only differ from the regular penny-a-liner wonders of this description in that they are true. In Mr. Andrews' garden, being fern land, near the wood, out of a'patch of wheat a plant from one grain had 60 ears, each ear bearing 66 grains, making a total of 3,960 grains from one. This wheat was sown in June last. Mr. Lyford, in his garden on the border of the wood, had, out of a patch of barley, one plant from a single grain bearing 130 ears ; the grains were not counted : also another bearing 76 ears, with 70 grains to each ear, in all 5,180 grains. In Mr. Cullen's garden in the wood was a plant of wheat bearing 92 ears of 60 grains each, making 5,520 grains from one. In none of these instances was the specimen chosen and counted out from a patch so small that the very finest could be picked out, though of course it is but reasonable to suppose that, in making a selection for such a purpose, the plant would be taken from the spot where the growth appeared most luxuriant; a thing more difficult to determine, by the bye, than would be credited by any one who had not seen the extraordinary crops of grain grown in and about the wood. In no case has the land received other preparation or cultivation than that; of clearing and digging. We were somewhat startled on Thursday last, at witnessing an entire house brought out of the wood, across the river, and conveyed about a mile and a half up the Waimea road, apparently without sustaining any damage. It is one of the advantages of colonial dwellings to be able thus to change one's^ place of residence without changing houses. On Sunday last, several of the men who j have been working the coal and lime at Massacre Bay, arrived here in a boat, having been picked up from the beach,-near Separation Point, by Mr. Tuckett, while on his way to inspect the surveys in the Massacre Bay district. The men had started in a large barge, laden with lime, but which was tmsuited for the purpose, and, on the wind blowing fresh, they Were driven on the flats and the barge broken to pieces by the surf. Had it not been for the timely aid they received, they would have had a most fatiguing trudge on the rough beach before they could have met with any assistance. The most serious part of the matter was, that, as they weve without provisions, they ran some risk of being starved. The emancipated negroes in the West Indies are, it is said, rapidly becoming proprietors. It is not generally known that newspapers are sent and received through the post, free of any charge, to the following kingdoms and towns not under the dominion of Great Britian, viz. : — Denmark, Spain, Hamburg, Lubeck, Cuxhaven, Bremen, Hayti, Peru, Honduras, Brazils, Buenos Ayres, La Guayra, Columbia, and Caraccas. — ■ Globe. The Hindoo Girl. — The New Haven Register states that Mr. Pierpoint made the following interesting statement in his lecture before the Norwich Lyceum : — " At the present day, the uneducated Hindoo girl, by the use of her hands simply, could surpass, in delicacy and fineness "of texture, the production of most perfect machinery, in the manufacture of cotton and muslin cloths. In England, cotton had been spun so fine, that it would require a thread of four hundred and ninety miles in length to weigh a pound — but the 'Hindoo girl had, by her hands, constructed a rhread, which would require to be extended one lousand miles to weigh a pound; and the 'accale muslins, of her manufacture, when spread .i the ground and covered with dew, were no tger visible."