NELSON.
The following paragraph from Nehcn Examiner, puts at rest a rumour which was circulated in this town about back, that the Wairau was being surveyed by, surveyors from Nelson, and had again crossed the Straits with an intention of driving them off:— 0
We are happy to learn that the party of gentlemen who undertook an excursion to the Wairau district, in the beginning of the present month, by way of the French Pass and Queen Charlotte's Sound and thence, overland by the Wairau Pass, Motuaka and Wai-iti ridges, &c, to Nelson, returned* safely on Thursday last, much gratified with their trip, and highly impressed with the value aud importance of the whole of the Wairau district as an appendage to the Nelson settlement. An interesting feature in their journey occurs in their having explored a portion of Queen Charlotte's Sound but little known excepting to the natives and whalers in that neighbourhood, and traversed a pass from Waitoi, at its western arm, to the Wairau plain, at a uoint where the Tua Marina joins the Waira 7 river, and close by- the scene of the late calamitous conflict. A gentleman whd formed one of the patty has promised us a more detailed account of this portion of the Sound, which; shall appear in our next uumber,
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Wellington Independent, Issue 2, 5 April 1845, Page 3
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218NELSON. Wellington Independent, Issue 2, 5 April 1845, Page 3
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