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left, saying, " We cannot remain any longer, but must go and plant our potatoes." 

 So terminated this war, the natives explaining that as an equal number had been 

 killed on either side they were perfectly satisfied. They would not humiliate themselves, 

 however, by asking for peace, and the blockade up and down the River was therefore 

 continued. Cut off in this way from procuring such civilized comforts as pipes, tobacco, 

 blankets, tea and sugar, they found these deprivations too great a hardship, and at the 

 end of the year they wrote to the Governor intimating their desire for peace. On the 

 2 ist of February, 1848, the leading chiefs met the Governor and Major-General Pitt, 

 the Officer Commanding the Troops in New Zealand, whereupon peace was proclaimed 



WAXGANUI, TO-DAY. 



and a general amnesty granted. In this campaign the stigma that attached to the 

 insurgents was the murder of the Gilfillans, and that would appear to have been the 

 unauthorized act of six youths, of whom the eldest was not eighteen, who were actuated 

 by a vendetta spirit, the chief wounded by the midshipman being their relative. The 

 boy of twelve, who was pardoned, actually entreated to be hanged along with his com- 

 panions. On the other hand, a colonist who was made prisoner during the trouble was 

 sent back to his friends uninjured; and, upon peace being restored, raided cattle were 

 returned, while the natives were paid a fair price for lands of which the ownership was 

 in dispute, which had formed one of the incitements to the taking up of arms. 



MINOR ALARMS AND OUTRAGES. 



After the expenditure of nearly a million of money, and with a record of eighty- 

 five soldiers, seamen and militia-men slain, besides one hundred and sixty-seven wounded, 



