586 SAMUEL MARSDEN. 
mand to make known to the reverend gentleman, not only 
tke fact of his being honorably acquitted, but that the home 
Government, in approval of his conduct, had added £100 
a-year to his salary, and ordered a suitable residence to be 
erected for him. Another anecdote will also show the early 
state of the colony, Mr. Marsden had repeatedly complained 
to the Governor of the dangerous state the place was in 
where they assembled for divine worship ; for some time no 
notice was taken of his representations, at last one Sabbath 
in the midst of the service, a master mason with a number of 
convict assistants bearing ladders tools and hods of mortar, 
came with great clatter and noise into the midst of the church, 
Mr. Marsden demanded the cause of the interruption, the man 
told him that the Governor said, the building was in such a 
dangerous state, that they were to lose no time, but go 
immediately and commence the repairs; he told them, at 
any rate, to stay until the service was over ; they said, they 
dare not, the commands being imperative ; then said he to 
his congregation as we cannot worship God here, let us go 
where we can ; he immediately arose, still habited in his 
surplice, and followed by his congregation, went to the 
Court-house, and there concluded the service. 
Such was the estimation in which he was held by the home 
Government, that Governor Macquarie was ordered to under- 
take no measure of importance, without first consulting the 
senior Chaplain, and one of the first measures of that gen- 
tleman was pressing those who had been living in a state of 
concubinage to marry, many of them having large families, 
making their visits at Government House contingent on their 
doing so, this had the desired effect, and some of the chief 
families in the colonies have thus originated. 
On Mr. Marsden* s arrival, he found Governor Phillip had 
left, after having founded the colony, and Governor Grose 
then occupying his post, who was succeeded in 1795 by 
Captain Hunter, who, in 1800, was replaced by Captain 
King. It was this Governor who obtained two New Zealand 
natives, Toki and Huru, from Doubtless Bay, near the North 
Cape, as teachers, to show the prisoners at Norfolk Island 
