NELSON.

Lyttelton Times, Volume I, Issue 29, 26 July 1851, Page 6

NELSON.

The Gazelle, from Hobart Town, via the above port, has brought us the Nelson Exam' iner of the sth and 12th inst.

The subject of infectious sheep, if we may judge from the correspondence appearing in these papers, was causing no little agitation and caution—perhaps the solicitude that had been awakened might be traced in some degree to the formation of a " Working Man's Sheep Association," the first meeting of shareholders in which was held in Nelson on the 30th June. From the resolutions at that meeting we learn, that the capital is proposed at £1040, divided into 200 shares of £5 4s. each, with power to increase the number of shares. No person was to be permitted to take more than five original shares. The shares were to be paid by weekly instalments of one shilling on each, and at the end of every six months the full amount of the then paid up capital was to be invested in the purchase of sheep. The usual staff of President, Directors, &c, had been elected, as also a deputation to call public meetings for the purpose of laying the plans of the Association before the working men of the country. This is surely progress in the right direction, and may be classed with another step of the same kind that was taken some time since, also by our Nelson friends, in the formation of a "Working Man's Freehold Land Company," in which the capital is £520, made up by 100 shares at £o 4s. each, paid up by weekly instalments of one shilling per share, and to be laid out when entirely subscribed, in the purchase of a block of freehold land, which will be divided into lots, according to the number of shares. We observe that many of those who manage the one, are also connected with the other Association, and though unknown to us personally, we doubt not that they are men earnestly seeking to benefit the classes below them, and we are sure they could take no more judicious and practicable means for so doing. Eichmond Cattle Faie.—On the 2nd of July, (we quote from the Examiner of the sth inst.,) a cattle fair was held for the fust time in this rising township. The season of the yeftsr was not the best adapted for the experiment, "'' nevertheless, a considerable body of persons attended, among whom was a good sprinkling of buyers, but the show of cattle was limited. There was a considerable demand for milch cows, but the prices asked prevented business being done. For good cows near calving, £13 to £15 was demanded; and £12 was asked and j obtained for beasts for slaughtering. In the-,-; ' horse fair little was done, except with an impor-^ ted lot just landed by the Comet from Sydney, of which a good number were sold. Light saddle hacks went at from £17 to £20 each, and fair cart mares at £25 each. The demand was for good useful stock, and had the horses been of a stouter class, adapted for light farm work as well as for the saddle,_none.we.believe brought to the fair would haye remained unsold. We saw £30 offered and' refused for a nice cob-look-

ing two-year old filly, bred by Mr. Bell, and £ 18 was given for a stout yearling colt, also bred in the settlement. Several of the horses sold afterwards changed hands at an advanced price.

It may not be uninteresting, as shewing the colour of constituent representation which is attempted to be given to the farce of nomineeism, to quote the following remarks from the J^y''-^iiner of July 5.

'XJ33& is onelittle incident in the proceedings£~T the Council, as they have reached us, whiouis worth noticing. A memorial was lately ...addfessed to Sir George Grey by certain inhabitants of Nelson, praying that a bridge might be erected over the river Maitai, and another in favour of an. additional expenditure on the roads of the settlement. The persons who affixed their names to these documents will see with some surprise that they have been handed by his Excellency over to Mr. Cautley, and by that gentleman have been presented to the Council. On the face of the transaction it thus appears as if Mr. Cautley was recognized in his legislative capacity by his brother settlers, and that to him had been entrusted the advocacy of our wants; while the fact is quite notorious that the people of Nelson repudiate altogether the acts of the present nominees, and to have memorialized the Council through one of these members would have been the last thing they would have thought of doing."