NELSON.
We have received copies of the Nelson Examiner of the 24th Juneiord Ist July, the latter of course full of the melancholy Affair atWairou. The settlement, we learn from private sources, is plunged in grief; and its inhabitants, like ourselves, have taken precautionary measures against any further outrages by the Natives, but no reasonable apprehension*" of molestation existed! The male adult population had been enrolled as special constables, and were exercising and drilling to the use of arms. A public meeting had also been held to memorialize the Local and Home Governments for the protection of life and property in the Settlement. Mr. M 'Donald, the Sheriff, presided. The Editor of the Examiner expresses considerable surprise at the tone of the remarks, in the leading article of this journal, on the subject of the public meeting held here with relation to the late melancholy event. We hope it is .unnecessary to inform our friends at Nelson, that the gentleman from whose pen the article in question proceeded, ceased to have any -connection with this paper almost the moment that the remarks referred to made their appearance; and that these remarks were the exact opposite of the feelings of our community towards our suffering neighbours.
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New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, Volume IV, Issue 262, 12 July 1843, Page 3
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