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been detained in New South Wales by Mr. Marsden to 
occupy a vacant post there. Now, said they, the Lord has 
sent another laborer and his family, one must be spared for 
us ; the Rev. 0. Hadfield, who then assisted in conducting 
the Missionary school at the Waimate, volunteered to go. 
Satisfied with this promise, they returned home, and were 
speedily followed by their new teacher, accompanied by the 
Rev. H. Williams, the senior minister, in the Missionary 
schooner Columbine ; as there were two great tribes living 
within twelve miles of each other, the Missionary wisely had 
a house erected in each pa, where he alternately resided, and 
with much patience and perseverance, love and zeal, persisted, 
firmly supported by the young Chiefs, who lent all their 
influence to further his labors, so that soon the hymn was 
heard instead of the haka ; and the hand grasped the Gospel 
of Peace, instead of the deadly gun. 
In 1840, The Tory arrived, bearing the first settlers sent 
out by the recently-formed New Zealand Company; men of 
family and fortune came in that ship, captivated by the glow- 
iug accounts of New Zealand, published by the Company, 
which said, all was now peace, and cannibalism only lived in 
remembrance, had the passengers in that vessel, however, 
known, they might have seen a column of smoke curling up 
above the trees of Porirua, where they were then cooking a 
cannibal repast ; some time previously to the arrival of The 
Tory , a Captain Cherry was murdered by a Porirua chief ; 
when the people saw that vessel, they mistook it for a man- 
of-war, and fancied it came to demand satisfaction for the 
murder ; they, therefore, determined to take payment them- 
selves beforehand, to show the English they had nothing to 
do with the crime. It appears that poor Captain Cherry's 
feet had been held down by a slave, whilst his master killed 
him ; Maori justice fell on the former — he was killed and 
eaten, whilst his guilty, master escaped. 
The New Zealand Company made land purchases in various 
parts of the straits at Taranaki, Wanganui, Port Nicholson, 
and Nelson ; but, unfortunately, not being acquainted with 
the sub-divisions of property or the language, they fancied 
