CHAPTER IV. 
ORIGINATION OF THE NEW-ZEALAND MISSION — DIFFICULTIES — 
RANGIHOUA, THE FIRST STATION, AFTERWARDS REMOVED TO 
TEPUNA — VISIT OF HONGI AND WAIKATO TO ENGLAND— KERIKERI, 
THE SECOND STATION — DIFFICULTIES AT ITS FORMATION, AND 
FOR THE FIRST FEW YEARS — PAIHIA, THE THIRD STATION — 
OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF IT— WAIMATE, THE FOURTH STATION — 
VILLAGES, CHAPELS, AND SCHOOLS, CONNECTED WITH IT— KAI- 
TAIA, THE FIFTH STATION — PURIRI, THE SIXTH STATION— OTHER 
STATIONS PROJECTED. 
The attention of the Church Missionary Society 
was first directed to New Zealand by the repre- 
sentations made to them, from time to time, by 
the Rev. Samuel Marsden, Senior Chaplain of the 
Colony of New South Wales. It was altogether 
owing to the unwearied exertions of this warm 
and disinterested friend of the New Zealanders, 
that a Mission was eventually established among 
them. As few men have met with greater hin- 
drances, or have been more vehemently opposed ; 
so no man was ever naturally better fitted to battle 
through difficulties, and to live-down opposition, 
than Mr. Marsden. His mind was bent upon 
effecting the welfare of this country ; and neither 
cost nor labour was spared, till his purposes were 
fully accomplished. The visits of a few Chiefs at 
his parsonage, at Parramatta, had given him a high 
